You can watch Hostage on digital from Terror Films. That hasn’t happened in some time, so well done to all involved. The conclusion to this movie - which struck me as very A Bay of Blood - actually shocked me. She’s got a good script from Laura Ashley Polisena to work from and the direction of Eddie Augustin, making his full-length debut, to guide her. Nicole Henderson, who plays Ashley, is pretty great in this, taking on a role that hovers between someone you sympathize for and may even fear a little. He’s willing to whatever it takes to survive, but they’re doing everything they can to make sure he won’t. When a home robbery happens, Ashley gets the chance to either escape or be part of this family for good.Ī man named Mark has broken into Ashley’s home, but he learns that her family may be even worse criminals than he is. And sure, they’re parents and you expect any mom and dad to have some problems, but I mean, they really have issues. But the trust is that her parents are really the killers of her birth parents. "The Hostage" can feel forced and weepy, but it does have its effective spells and the acting is above-average to make you kinda glad you stole away for the ride.Ashley, a young cheerleader, may seem like she has a perfect life. Certain moments in the black and white script can lead to some sequences stalling the pace, especially when it's not focusing on the two thugs and the kid. An overwrought and sappy soundtrack is a bit off-putting, and the music score sounds too generic to sustain or create any sort of feeling and tension. Helping out on the smoky atmosphere, was Ted Mikels' stark photography of the locations of Des Moines, Iowa and a washed-out (I don't think it was on purpose) colour scheme. Doughten did a sturdily realized job, where his framework is taut and nicely demonstrates few moody and sinister images. Danny Martins is rather decent in the child role, even though at times he got on my nerves, he was a true nuisance and portrayed a frighten face well enough. Lovelace, who has plenty of caustic things to say about his situation. A cranky looking John Carradine pops up as the bumming vagrant Otis P. So you better not cross me" browbeater villain Bull. His nervous performance was solid, as the scrawny, slow-witted criminal Eddie, but it was Don Kelly's ominously hammy turn as the "Oh, I can get so angry after a few drinks. Really, this minimalist low-budget production is nothing out of the ordinary, but it was the name of character actor Harry Dean Stanton which drove my interest to watch it. What eventuates from "The Hostage" is dry suspense leisurely springing from a reasonably old-fashion and simplified plot (taken off Henery Farrell's novel) of well-conceived episodic sub-plot developments to gradually lead up to its suspenseful closing. Like the other user-commenter mentioned, this one does have a striking resemblance to Macauley Culkin's "Home Alone (1990)", but without comic humour. The Hostage is about a gang of high-end thieves who plan to break into a really rich businessman's house, hack into his computer, and download all his money. Meanwhile his parents have grown worried over his disappearance, and their interfering neighbour claim to see him with a vagrant, which leads everyone chasing the wrong lead. With Shawn Bosarge, Bill Farrell, John Joly, William Kerr. The removalists Bull and Eddie happen to be criminals, and they use the truck to transport a dead body and Davey witnesses the two burying the body. When Davey gets in the way of his parents when they're trying to pack up their belongings to move to another house, he enters the removal truck and unknowingly gets locked it.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |