Skeletons [DVD] R2 James Coburn, Christopher Plummer

R2 originaali, ei suomitekstejä.

Writer Peter Crane envisages an idyllic lifestyle when he and his family move to the New England town of Saugatruck, and for a time all is well. When a strange woman arrives at the house requesting Peter to help her son, Chris, who has been charged with murder, he agrees, only for the local residents to suddenly grow hostile towards him. The Cranes soon find themselves outcasts in the community, and the atmosphere becomes still more oppressive when a burning scarecrow is left hanging from a tree outside their house. It seems that Peter has seriously upset everyone with his attempt to find skeletons in the local closets.

Actors: Ron Silver, Christopher Plummer, Dee Wallace, Kyle Howard, James Coburn

• Directors: David DeCoteau
• Writers: Joshua Michael Stern
• Producers: Brian Shuster, Charles Band, Craig Thurman Suttle, Danny Porush, David Silberg
• Format: PAL
• Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Classification: 15
• Studio: Planet
• DVD Release Date: 29 July 2003
• Run Time: 90 minutes

Christopher Plummer is always worth watching, and the cast of the film is more than respectable. It's in some ways a very grim story that teeters on the brink of horror before actually becoming horrific. The chase sequence, and subsequent gruesome discovery, is effective and horrible in equal measure. I regret to say that it left me feeling sad rather than satisfied, though I felt it was well acted (there are one or two exceptions to that rule) on the whole. I was left with the impression that the speed of the film did not succeed in convincing, and I wonder why it is that certain actresses appear (over and over) as utterly unsympathetic school teachers. A good enough movie, but not one I'll be keeping in my collection.

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