Surreal. You go into The Oregonian not knowing what you’re about to watch and you leave The Oregonian not knowing what you just watched. This is the type of film that you will only find at film festivals or at the bottom of a DVD bin. Writer/Director Calvin Reeder has put together something that’s chilling, tense and indescribable. I always wonder if the cast and crew understand what they’re making while they’re making…I don’t even think the cast and crew has any idea what they made now. The film can be interpreted in a million different ways and that’s probably how Reeder wanted it.
The Oregonian, a girl in a lumberjack shirt covered in blood (Lindsay Pulsipher), awakens from a car crash not knowing where to go. Sounds is a paramount piece of this film and you’ll be covering your ears as The Oregonian is attacked by loud screeching noises. As she walks down deserted roads, she is only met by strangers. I feel like the word stranger was invented for this movie because every stranger is stranger and stranger. There’s a crazy old woman, a man obsessed with breakfast, someone in a large green monster suit, etc. etc. The strangers are only outdone by the disturbing images that just get weirder and more unexplainable. However, all of these things keep you captivated in a tense state as you try and figure out what you’re watching.
She has a shotgun
The movie begins with graduation music…did she just come from one? There are flashbacks of her childhood, does she have daddy issues? Is this a dream? A nightmare? Is she on acid? Am I on acid? What’s going on!? There’s plenty of crazy laughing, women vomiting and people bleeding. It’s a horror film, what did you expect? Trick question because you can’t expect anything from this movie. There’s almost no way to review this film because it will be different for each viewer and different for every viewing. If you want to test your obscenity tolerance and expand your movie palate, go find The Oregonian. This is an amazing way to close out Another Hole in the Head and you should go check out this film tomorrow night, the last night of the festival, at 7:20pm.
WHAT IS GOING ON!?
This post is part of our ANITH coverageEvery year, the ANOTHER HOLE IN THE HEAD FILM FESTIVAL unleashes the best dark fantasy, horror/comedy, sci-fi, bizarro-vision cinema in San Francisco. 2011 is no exception — AHITH, PART 8 will throw up 26 features and 15 short films onto the screen at the Roxie Theater, the beating heart of horror starting June 2 through June 17.Visit SF INDIEFEST’s Official Website
Tags: AHITH, Another Hole in the Head, Part 8, Calvin Reeder, Lindsay Pulsipher, Part 8, The Oregonian
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