Red Handed (I) (2019)
5/10
Interesting
28 December 2019
Warning: Spoilers
When their father (Michael Madsen!) is murdered, three brothers head to an Oregon mountain river to spread his ashes. After they arrive, one of their children goes missing. What makes things worse is that one of the brothers was abducted thirty years ago on the very same river, but he has blocked the incident out of his mind. Only by unlocking the mysteries inside his subconscious can they find the missing child.

Originally known as Children of Moloch, this movie is packed with backwoods menace. It also has Rick Salomon in it. This is the same guy who was in the Paris Hilton leaked adult footage, plus he was married to Shannen Doherty, Pamela Anderson and Elizabeth E.G. Daily. Yes, he sure has lived. His daughter Hunter Daily (yes, E.G.'s daughter) is also in this. Christian Madsen, Michael's son, shows up too. And look out for Michael Biehn!

While IMDB lists the director as Frank Peluso, all of the marketing material for the film lists Nick Cassavetes as the director. You may know him from films like The Notebook and Alpha Dog, but this is B&S About Movies. We know him as Packard Walsh from The Wraith.

This is written pretty well and feels like Midsommar mixed with a backwoods people messing up normal folks picture. I really liked the occult story about adding an egg to cake mix, even if it's not really true. The dialogue is really good, though and the movie does a great job of keeping up the tension.
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