Directed by:
Colin MinihanScreenplay:
Colin MinihanCinematography:
David SchuurmanComposer:
Brittany AllenVOD (1)
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True love can’t always be trusted. This discomforting life lesson is learned in the most pulverizing way when Jules (Brittany Allen) finds herself barely escaping death at the hands of her wife Jackie (Hannah Emily Anderson), deep in the country on the eve of their one-year wedding anniversary. Shocked, heartbroken and terrified, she tries to piece together the whys and whats of her situation while doing everything she can to simply stay alive. An electrifyingly intense game of interpersonal cat-and-mouse begins as literal blood, sweat and tears – and heaps of adrenaline – flow in rivers. (Fantasia International Film Festival)
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A run-of-the-mill, not in any way notable game of a psychopathic cat and a surprised mouse in a forest
by a lake. And it’s also stupid – due to the improbable behavior of its characters and the work with
viewers, underestimating their intelligence. The entire audience in the packed screening room laughed at
some scenes that were supposed to be serious.
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Two lesbians go to celebrate their one-year marriage anniversary at a cabin in the middle of nowhere, but one of them soon starts to have a serious breakdown, the sins of the past slowly come to light and the wife is now in danger of her life as her partner gets a psychotic break and goes over dead bodies. A fairly brisk survival thriller that, while not exactly groundbreaking, doesn't offend at all. I liked the music, the suspense works well at times, and the finale is pretty much fine, so a digestible affair. 60%
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I didn't have high hopes for the Canadian film What Keeps You Alive, but it managed to impress me from the very beginning with its environment, which is beautiful and nice to look at. Into this environment enters the story of two characters, and there aren’t many more that are needed for the entire film, whose idyll turns into the worst moments of their lives. From a horror point of view, it's nice that the evil doesn't come from the outside.
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