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Doctor Mabuse (2013)
Low Budget? So what? It's terrific!
No doubt there will be people who put this film down because of it's ultra-low budget. They would be wrong. Doctor Mabuse's writer/director, Ansel Faraj, is only 21 years old. His cast includes 3 stars of Dark Shadows, one of his (and my)favorite TV shows. The film is a bizarre noir thriller with supernatural overtones. The shoestring budget cannot hide the maturity in the writing, or the strong performances by Kathryn Leigh Scott, Lara Parker, Nathan Wilson and especially Jerry Lacy in the title role.
Doctor Mabuse has power over mind and matter. He's attempting to take over a large, unnamed city. Wilson is the tormented police inspector out to stop him. Suffice it to say that their are moments in their battle of wills that made my skin crawl. What Faraj has accomplished, at such a young age, and with such limited resources, is extraordinary.