Watch the new trailer for Nicholas Bushman's Union Furnace, starring Mike Dwyer, Seth Hammond, Katie Keene and Keith David. The psychological horror tells of a petty car thief in a small Southern Ohio town who becomes involved in an underground game of life and death. Bushman directs from a script he wrote with Dwyer, who also produces. There's no info on a release date as yet for this one. Other cast includes Tara Bellando, Kevin Crowley, Lyle Kanouse, David Hayward and Ben Wallace. Previously Bushman directed 2012's Sandbar, starring Rick Rossovich (Top Gun), where he first worked with stars Dwyer, Keene, Crowley as well as Kathleen Andrews on the dramedy.
- 3/4/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Watch the new trailer for Nicholas Bushman's Union Furnace, starring Mike Dwyer, Seth Hammond, Katie Keene and Keith David. The psychological horror tells of a petty car thief in a small Southern Ohio town who becomes involved in an underground game of life and death. Bushman directs from a script he wrote with Dwyer, who also produces. There's no info on a release date as yet for this one. Other cast includes Tara Bellando, Kevin Crowley, Lyle Kanouse, David Hayward and Ben Wallace. Previously Bushman directed 2012's Sandbar, starring Rick Rossovich (Top Gun), where he first worked with stars Dwyer, Keene, Crowley as well as Kathleen Andrews on the dramedy.
- 3/4/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
An extremely low-budget indie effort that continues the dubious recent tradition of films about women on a murder spree, "100 Proof" is a Kentucky-born opus that would have been better off staying on home ground.
The film, now receiving its New York theatrical premiere at the Film Forum, is a dark and depressing tale with few redeeming features, save for the appearance of Jim Varney in a non-Ernest role.
The story, such as it is, revolves around one day in the less-than-happy lives of Rae (Pamela Stewart) and Carla (Tara Bellando), whose sad existence centers on prostitution and drugs in the less genteel neighborhoods of Lexington, Ky.
The young women spend most of the film's running time attempting to procure a small pension check from a seedy old man and his obese shrew of a companion. Along the way, they run into several other disreputable characters, including the local drug dealer and Rae's nasty and abusive father (Varney).
The film concentrates more on character development and atmosphere than plot, at least until the violent conclusion, when the women commit a series of senseless murders. The fact that everyone and everything in the film is so squalid and depressing would be mitigated by a well-written screenplay or effective filmmaking, but there is little evidence of either here.
"100 Proof" is slightly redeemed by the highly realistic performances from an effective cast who seem to inhabit their roles with utter authenticity. Particularly good is Stewart (seen in Hal Hartley's "Amateur"), who gives her character an intensity and desperation that is always compelling.
And Varney, delivering a lengthy and vicious monologue directly into the camera, demonstrates he can do more than play a comic buffoon.
100 PROOF
Warner Bros.
Director-screenwriter: Jeremy Horton
Executive producer:Jay Faires
Producer, editor:George Maranville
Director of photography:Harold Jarboe
Music:Michael Mosier
Color
Cast:
Rae:Pamela Stewart
Carla:Tara Bellando
Arco:Jack Stubblefield
Johnson Sissy: Minnie Bates
Yancy Eddie:Larry Brown
Rae's father:Jim Varney
Running time: 94 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The film, now receiving its New York theatrical premiere at the Film Forum, is a dark and depressing tale with few redeeming features, save for the appearance of Jim Varney in a non-Ernest role.
The story, such as it is, revolves around one day in the less-than-happy lives of Rae (Pamela Stewart) and Carla (Tara Bellando), whose sad existence centers on prostitution and drugs in the less genteel neighborhoods of Lexington, Ky.
The young women spend most of the film's running time attempting to procure a small pension check from a seedy old man and his obese shrew of a companion. Along the way, they run into several other disreputable characters, including the local drug dealer and Rae's nasty and abusive father (Varney).
The film concentrates more on character development and atmosphere than plot, at least until the violent conclusion, when the women commit a series of senseless murders. The fact that everyone and everything in the film is so squalid and depressing would be mitigated by a well-written screenplay or effective filmmaking, but there is little evidence of either here.
"100 Proof" is slightly redeemed by the highly realistic performances from an effective cast who seem to inhabit their roles with utter authenticity. Particularly good is Stewart (seen in Hal Hartley's "Amateur"), who gives her character an intensity and desperation that is always compelling.
And Varney, delivering a lengthy and vicious monologue directly into the camera, demonstrates he can do more than play a comic buffoon.
100 PROOF
Warner Bros.
Director-screenwriter: Jeremy Horton
Executive producer:Jay Faires
Producer, editor:George Maranville
Director of photography:Harold Jarboe
Music:Michael Mosier
Color
Cast:
Rae:Pamela Stewart
Carla:Tara Bellando
Arco:Jack Stubblefield
Johnson Sissy: Minnie Bates
Yancy Eddie:Larry Brown
Rae's father:Jim Varney
Running time: 94 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 9/29/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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