From first-time director Enda McCallion comes Hit And Run, a combination of last year’s Stuart Gordon film Stuck and 1997’s I Know What You Did Last Summer. This attempt at an art-house thriller mixed with psychological horror tries to be too many things at once, and ends up coming across as only average.
The film’s first half seems more like a social commentary, based on the real-life event that has already inspired not only Stuck but a Law And Order episode. Mary, played by Amusement’s Laura Breckinridge, is on her way home after getting drunk at a party when she runs over something. Arriving home, she soon learns that she has in hit a man, Emser (The Last Winter’s Kevin Corrigan), who is still impaled on the grill of her car but very much alive. After an extremely short bout of compassion followed by a longer...
The film’s first half seems more like a social commentary, based on the real-life event that has already inspired not only Stuck but a Law And Order episode. Mary, played by Amusement’s Laura Breckinridge, is on her way home after getting drunk at a party when she runs over something. Arriving home, she soon learns that she has in hit a man, Emser (The Last Winter’s Kevin Corrigan), who is still impaled on the grill of her car but very much alive. After an extremely short bout of compassion followed by a longer...
- 1/22/2009
- Fangoria
A frightened girl. Talking parrots. A dark house. And an enraged Kevin Corrigan. These are the ingredients that make up an exclusive clip from this week's horror DVD release Hit and Run . Said "frightened girl" is actress Laura Breckenridge who, in the film, gets a tad tipsy one night, unknowingly hits a dude (Corrigan) with her car and drags him home. Naturally, he's pissed after she buries him and tries to forget anything ever happened. Check out our clip right here and witness their first friendly encounter since their "meeting" on the road. Hit and Run , directed by Enda McCallion, arrives on DVD today.
- 1/13/2009
- shocktillyoudrop.com
MGM Home Entertainment gave Fango the first look at cover art and details for its DVD release of the psychochiller Hit And Run. The disc arrives January 13, distributed via Fox Home Video.
Directed by Enda McCallion, the movie (previously titled Bumper) stars Laura (Amusement) Breckenridge as a college student who leaves a spring break party drunk and winds up running a man down with her car. Burying what she believes is her dead victim, she soon learns that her victim wasn’t quite expired, and has unearthed himself to seek violent revenge. Diane Doniol-Valcroze and Arthur Flam, who co-wrote the similarly car-centric Penny Dreadful, scripted Hit And Run, and the cast also includes Kevin (The Last Winter) Corrigan and Christopher (Return To Sleepaway Camp) Shand. MGM’s disc will present the film in widescreen with no announced special features, and retails for $26.98.
Directed by Enda McCallion, the movie (previously titled Bumper) stars Laura (Amusement) Breckenridge as a college student who leaves a spring break party drunk and winds up running a man down with her car. Burying what she believes is her dead victim, she soon learns that her victim wasn’t quite expired, and has unearthed himself to seek violent revenge. Diane Doniol-Valcroze and Arthur Flam, who co-wrote the similarly car-centric Penny Dreadful, scripted Hit And Run, and the cast also includes Kevin (The Last Winter) Corrigan and Christopher (Return To Sleepaway Camp) Shand. MGM’s disc will present the film in widescreen with no announced special features, and retails for $26.98.
- 11/3/2008
- Fangoria
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