Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Peter Cilella | ... | Michael Danube | |
Vinny Curran | ... | Chris Daniels | |
Emily Montague | ... | Jennifer Danube | |
Kurt David Anderson | ... | Billy (as Kurt Anderson) | |
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Skyler Meacham | ... | Micah |
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Josh Higgins | ... | Ted Tellensworth |
Zahn McClarnon | ... | Charles | |
Bill Oberst Jr. | ... | Byron | |
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Carmel Benson | ... | Sara |
Justin Benson | ... | Justin the Level 3 UFO Cult Member | |
Aaron Moorhead | ... | Level 2.5 UFO Cult Member | |
David Lawson Jr. | ... | Dave the Level 1 UFO Cult Member (as David Clarke Lawson Jr.) | |
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Glen Roberts | ... | Charles' Friend 1 |
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Bob Low | ... | Charles' Friend 2 |
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Michael Felker | ... | White Trash Kid With Soldering Iron |
Soon-to-be-a-dad Michael makes a last ditch effort to save his longtime but addicted friend Chris from a foreseeable drug related death. Visiting Chris and handcuffing him to an exposed plumbing pipe, Michael forces his buddy into detox, but while watching over his friend he also discovers that all is not right within the territory Chris has drifted into. Situated on Indian Reservation land, the area seems to attract a number of strange people. Someone or some thing has a longtime interest in recording activities in the area, all captured on a variety of recording devices (CDs, film, phonographs, etc.). Michael comes to understand he's been pulled into the latest "story" of an unseen entity, one with a grizzly resolution projected for him and his pal unless they can possibly work out their own agreeable alternate ending. Written by statmanjeff
A deeply oddball, and pretty entertaining low budget mash-up of character study, humor, and metaphysical horror. It's not like anything you've seen before, but it achieves that effect by taking a LOT of elements you've seen before, and having fun combining them in novel ways.
A young guy - Michael - who seems to have his life pretty together goes out to try and save his depressed, meth-head, gun loving friend – Chris – who is living alone in the middle of the woods. The unanswered question of who took the video of this Chris acting so crazy sets the tone for this film full of unexplained weirdness that creates a generally tense and creepy atmosphere despite any clear resolution to many of the questions (that's only one of several meanings the pun-laden title seems to have).
Much of the film is the relationship between these two men, and how Chris reacts to being forced to go cold turkey after Michael handcuffs him to a wall pipe. Both the acting and dialogue wavers between fun, honest, touching and a touch amateurish. Chris has one of the easier, least believable sudden withdrawals from serious addition I can remember seeing on film. But this film doesn't seem too worried about being real. It seems far more interested in being entertaining and leaving you wondering just what things mean; that old, creepy photo, the escapee from a local loony bin who knocks on the window at night, the fact that they are on Indian lands with a bad history. Do these things mean anything? Or do we just assume they do from a lifetime of horror and suspense films? The film-makers aren't always saying, they want us to wonder for ourselves and to smile while we shiver just a bit. I'll be curious to watch this again. It seems like a repeat viewing will either reveal its shallowness or uncover hidden depths