I had the honor to see this movie at its debut at the Hollywood Film Festival. Ironically the big studio premiere that week was The Ten Commandments. Ironic in that this dark and compelling movie also portrays the Commandments .... or more accurately the consequences of breaking them.
The intense and occasionally unnerving action is played out in a run down seaside town with its decrepit roller coaster as the lasting motif. Writer & director Jevon O'Neill's fertile imagination (fired perhaps by his Blackpool roots) is complimented by excellent performances from an eclectic cast : notably a rejuvenated Dennis Hopper as Harry the old time crook who craves one last chance at redemption; a hot Gina Gershon as Eileen the perfectly manicured femme fatale; and 'a butter wouldn't melt' Dominique Swain as Kelly the ingénue.
But it is the next in line of Hollywood star quality eccentric Irish actors - David Murray whose performance as Simeon is the most memorable. Simeon's downhill slide from petty theft, blackmail and ultimately to murder seem to flaunt gratuitously all of those Commandments. He exudes power, terrorizes all around him He is the hate figure. And yet his vulnerability and neuroses also evoke our sympathy there but for the grace of god ?
The superb system at the Arclight Theater also brought out the movie's excellent sound track the haunting choral piece over the movie's dramatic dénouement is particularly effective.
Congratulations to all involved with Out of Season and good luck with promoting the movie
The intense and occasionally unnerving action is played out in a run down seaside town with its decrepit roller coaster as the lasting motif. Writer & director Jevon O'Neill's fertile imagination (fired perhaps by his Blackpool roots) is complimented by excellent performances from an eclectic cast : notably a rejuvenated Dennis Hopper as Harry the old time crook who craves one last chance at redemption; a hot Gina Gershon as Eileen the perfectly manicured femme fatale; and 'a butter wouldn't melt' Dominique Swain as Kelly the ingénue.
But it is the next in line of Hollywood star quality eccentric Irish actors - David Murray whose performance as Simeon is the most memorable. Simeon's downhill slide from petty theft, blackmail and ultimately to murder seem to flaunt gratuitously all of those Commandments. He exudes power, terrorizes all around him He is the hate figure. And yet his vulnerability and neuroses also evoke our sympathy there but for the grace of god ?
The superb system at the Arclight Theater also brought out the movie's excellent sound track the haunting choral piece over the movie's dramatic dénouement is particularly effective.
Congratulations to all involved with Out of Season and good luck with promoting the movie