Greek tragedy and gore combine in this wild serial killer romp at FantasticFest. TravisStevens
, Travis Stevens depicted a man who's not as decent as he thinks he is. In his second,, Stevens finds a villain who embraces his monstrous aspects - to strangely slapstick effect.
Not that there's no menace, and there are plenty of reasons to worry for Meredith because there are red flags aplenty about Bruce . Like the way he doesn't pull over for enough bathroom breaks on the way to his cabin for a romantic giveaway, or his serial killing. Yeah, that's probably it. However, the first big clue that she gets is a sculpture in his secluded home of Tisiphone, Alecto and Megaera - the Erinyes, the three Furies, born of blood and dedicated to vengeance as justice.
The pieces are set in place for a Greco-pagan revenge drama, with Bruce falling deeper into conceptual art brain damage as visions of the Furies begin to rip his reality apart. The second half ofthrashes around inside his perception, and may be the most warped trip inside a serial killer's mind since- but with that film's pompous provocation replaced with an almost Loony Tunes vivacity.
Grisly and grotesque, silly and incisive, it's interesting to see Stevens take the same proto-horror influences of Greek theatre that Wes Craven wove into, and indulge in some truly grisly and over-the-top horror antics. The copious blood that is spilled isn't modern dark crimson, but has more of a Hammer Horror bright pink-tinged hue, a decision that consistently raises the question of what level of sanity Bruce is stuck in.
Art, impulse control, obsession, supernatural forces: it's quite the strange brew, and it's given form mostly by Stevens' signature unconventionality. He's disinterested in straight-forward villains and heroes . So while Bruce is undoubtedly a scarcely-suppressed bundle of malice and misogyny, he's also a clown, pinballed around by the Erinyes. Or maybe by his unhinged visions. Or maybe by his visions being manipulated by the Erinyes.
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