Grizzly Flats (2011)
"Shadow People" (original title)

A recluse and his wife are tormented by shadow creatures.

Director:

Anthony Fankhauser

Writers:

Joe Benkis (story), Anthony Fankhauser

Stars:

Judd Nelson, Danielle De Luca, Christian Maurice Gantt

Cast

Credited cast:
Judd Nelson	...	Sheriff Donnelly
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Danielle De Luca	...	Renee
Christian Maurice Gantt	...	Pastor Ron
Ryan Karloff	...	Sylvain
Regina Mocey	...	Old Lady Johnsen
Edgar Allan Poe IV	...	Callum
Dustin J. Trost	...	Red
Maggie VandenBerghe	...	Mary Anne

Storyline

Sylvain, an engineer come vigilante inventor, has constructed a device. It is close to functional, but something isn't right. His wife, Mary Anne, is running out of patience. She loathes the woods in which they live and yearns for a return to the city. Problems arise when their already tense situation is exasperated by the appearance of shadow beings, which torment them during the night. Sylvain slowly comes to realize that this is not a localized event and some greater scheme might be at work. From the meth producing hillbillies on the mountain top to the corrupt lawman, Sheriff Donnelly, no one can escape the reach of the shadow people. Sylvain starts to suspect his device has something to do with it, but cannot bring himself to destroy the machine he has worked so hard to create...

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Plot Keywords:

shadow | shadow people | perpetual motion | female nudity

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Genres:

Sci-Fi

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Also Known As:

Grizzly Flats

Company Credits

Production Co:

Little Dragon Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Shockingly awful

Actually I wasn't expecting very much watching Shadow People, but seeing a movie as inept in every department as Shadow People is enough to make anybody reel. Amateurish is insulting to the word amateurish when talking about the movie from a visual and technical point of view, the editing is very choppy, the lighting dull, the sets looking even worse than a hoarder's home and effects that don't even look finished. The direction is incompetent, the pacing drags on so most of the movie is unbearably tedious and the dialogue is clunky at best. The story is ridiculous and paper thin, and just when I was questioning the point of the Guorde Shadow People doesn't even try to give an explanation. The characters have no development and I ended up hating every single one of them. The pastor was hilarious in how unintentionally odd he was but that's it. And it certainly doesn't help that they are wildly overacted by the whole cast.

Overall, a shockingly awful film that was bad even for my already low expectations. 1/10 Bethany Cox