LATE PHASES
Ambrose McKinley (Nick Damici) hates everything and everyone. He did five years in Vietnam, and after that…nothing. Nothing except one failed marriage, a grown kid he doesn’t understand, a government check in the mail every month, and a head injury that’s slowly making him go blind. The only living creature on the planet he cares about is his dog, Shadow. Everyone else he hates. With a passion.
With his vision getting so bad he can no longer live alone, his son, Will (Ethan Embry), decides to move him into the bargain basement retirement community of Crescent Bay. No sooner has Will dropped his dad off and fled from his nasty comments than Ambrose’s elderly next door neighbor, Delores (Karen Lynn Gorney), is brutally torn to pieces by an enormous creature. The beast smells Shadow next door and smashes its way into Ambrose’s house where, unable to protect himself in an unfamiliar environment, Ambrose flounders helplessly while his best friend is brutally slaughtered.
The sun comes up the next day to find pieces of Delores scattered all over the front lawn, and Ambrose sitting next to Shadow’s corpse, covered in blood and vowing revenge. After digging a grave for his dog, Ambrose gets strapped with silver bullets and goes monster hunting. Crescent Bay is a small community, Norman Rockwell folksy on the outside, but marinated in gossip, drowning in prying neighbors, and patrolled by a welcome wagon of busybodies bearings cakes, Clarissa (Tina Louise), Gloria (Rutyana Alda), and Emma (Caitlin O’Heaney). And there’s no shortage of potential suspects for Ambrose to track.
At the top of his list is the chain-smoking priest, Father Roger (Tom Noonan), followed closely by the shy, nervous neighbor who runs the shuttle bus for Sunday services, Griffin (Lance Guest). But as Ambrose stalks the beast, it becomes clear that the beast is stalking him, too. Its arrival heralded by the howls of pet dogs freaking out at the scent of this super-predator, the monster is closing in on Ambrose and it has the advantage of not only being seven feet tall and having razor sharp claws, but of also having two working eyes. Soon, the sun-parched gated community of Crescent Bay becomes a battleground where a blind man spends the last weeks of his life hunting down the savage animal who killed his only friend, and chances are good that this will be his final fight.
Σκηνοθεσία/Director: Adrián García Bogliano
Σενάριο/Screenplay: Eric Stolze
Ηθοποιοί/Cast: Nick Damici, Ethan Embry, Lance Guest
Χώρα/Country: ΗΠΑ/USA
Γλώσσα/Language: Αγγλικά/English
Διάρκεια/Duration: 95’
Special Award Winner Best Leading Actor and Best Hero-Toronto After Dark Film Festival, Toronto 2014, Official Selection for Best Film and Best Actor-BloodGuts UK Horror Awards, UK 2014
