Howdy again girls and boys and welcome to the last day of
Valentine Week. Valentine’s Day in fact
is graced with a lovely throwback to thriller rather than gorefests of
current. When thieving film ideas of
this magnitude it is always important to sample from Halloween, Friday the 13th
and a dash of the original Black Christmas.
Stir that in a pot and let it bake for at least an hour and a half and
you have the makings of an ambitious attempt at a thriller/horror film. So grab your coat for it may be chilly, grab
a fella for some snuggling and enjoy multiple clichés. This is Lovers Lane.
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Chloe Grefe: We have to
go back for Brad!
Michael Lamson: Brad is
spoiling dead, alright!
Our story opens with a flashback sequence and I tell ya
after 3 of these this week I was shocked that was going to happen. Thirteen years ago, on Valentine’s Day, a
couple getting hot and heavy at lover’s lane Dee Dee(Diedre Kilgore of Good Luck, The
Falls, Approaching Union Square and Hawaii Five-0) and boyfriend Jimmy
(Carter
Roy of White Face, The Elevator and Me + U) get attacked by a nut with
a steel hook. They flee to another car
and find another couple deader than disco.
The sheriff arrives on the scene to find out it was his wife and town
stud Ward that were murdered. To make
matters worse apparently it was bring your daughter to a double homicide day as
young Mandy sees her mom bound up in a sheet that Valentine’s Day. Ray
Hennessy (Ed Baily of Lovers Lane)is locked away in Weston State
Institution and treated by Dr. Jack Grefe (Richard Sanders of WKRP in Cincinnati,
Berrenger’s, You Can’t Take It with You and Men of Honor) and ladies
and gents he is no Doctor Loomis to be certain.
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| Remember to buckle up before being brutally slain, kids. |
End flashback and hello present day as Mandy (Erin
J. Dean of Blackbird Hill, Lolita and The Journey of Allen Strange) is
the slightly quiet and removed from cliques girl and an uncanny resemblance to
her late mother, her dad is still sheriff of the town and teens will be teens
planning a big bash for Valentine’s Day.
Geez, didn’t any of these punks see either My Bloody Valentine
flicks? So they prep for a night of
drinking and debauchery as Ray has not only kills his guards but reclaimed his
hook for more bloody terror.
Now what is to be said about this film? No stranger to danger in Issaquah Washington since 1990 when
Twin Peaks was first introduced to the airwaves, we have a prime small town
location that will offer enough eerie to cause the hairs on the back of the
neck to RISE…and make it difficult to ignore.
Well the formula is nothing we have not
already seen. The cops are worthless, the teenyboppers practically demand to be
killed viciously and the killer is a stealth god given the lights simply dim
whenever he is around. The SFX make-up
is fair, the actors really do try to offer credibility to a slasher film and
while some of the responses are more wooden that the Hundred Acre Woods the
technical aspect to the film are bang on.
Really decent handheld and lighting done for the nighttime exteriors
this is the hallmarks of a horror movie, I just feel bad they didn’t get a
screen release at all as this was a fair thriller. They would have easily found an audience.
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