Written & Directed By: Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy
Cast: Sterling Macer Jr., John Fleck, Micki Jackson, Susan Priver, Sean Heyman, Tomas Boykin, Nick Heyman, Micah Fitzgerald
An ominous help note finds its way to a 1980s post office, connecting a dead letter investigator to a kidnapped keyboard technician.
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As always, this is a film that is probably best to go into knowing very little about as they can offer you some surprises.
The film starts off with a bang of intensity. That seems to settle as we wait to see how we got there in the first place.
This film is a retro thriller with a 1980s aesthetic with a heavy synth score throughout that at first seems like it’s gonna be a detective story, and then reveals its hand to be more of a thriller.
The film is a slow-burn thriller. That is also a crime story with a dash of horror.
It’s also a layered story so that each act feels like a puzzle piece being put together so the audience learns more and more as it goes along and feels like well. There is one man mainly at the center who is causing all of this. Even as the story gets passed around to different but recurring characters.
This is a movie not to spoil that keeps you intrigue throughout as you keep wondering what’s next.
The film goes above and beyond with the premise that first seems so simple then makes you feel all the more paranoid as it goes along.
While there is no eroticism or homoeroticism. It does feel like the main character feels similarly betrayed as if it was a relationship, even though it was a collaboration with only one of them, putting in the real work, and the other, just being supportive. So that when he leaves, it feels like cheating or a betrayal.
By the end, you’re like all this just for a synthesizer?
Grade: B+
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