Stuck

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I love me my Stuart Gordon films. But instead of his usual Lovcraftian horror, here he is telling a story based on some unnerving true events, of a girl who ran into a homeless person with her car. He got stuck in the windshield and she drove him home and left him to bleed to death in the garage. It's a simple (and economic) set up but in typical movie fashion the problems just keep escalating, the tension builds until the the films climatic final moments.

Mena Suvari and Stephen Rea are great. They are both so sympathetic, well at the start anyway. You don't want to see either of them in this mess and they just keep making things worse for themselves. It's agonising and exhilarating at the same time. I love uncomfortable films like this, that twist the knife ever so slowly...

Stuart Gordon has been taking some interesting script choices in the past few years. He also made Edmond based on the Mamet play. He's flexing his drama muscles and he does it brilliantly. But there is still always a very dark undercurrent in his work that I love. Like Edmond, this film is a simple set up, they don't needlessly complicate things and it doesn't overstay it's welcome. He does film making on a budget very well.

I just hope he gets more work and continues his Lovecraft films too.