I had the privilege of watching Fang at a film festival.
I get scared at movies but it takes a real good movie to truly unsettle me. Fang goes up there with Dexter season 4.
The acting by Dylan La Ray as Billy Cochran and Lynn Lowry as his mother are terrific. La Ray plays a character that you can't help but sympathize with. A young man who struggles with autism and severe anxiety. I struggle with anxiety myself and it easy to make an exploitative character but Billy is real and his journey is heartbreaking.
Lynn Lowry as his mother Gina, a former beauty queen who is suffering from Parkison's dementia is also heartbreaking. One of my greatest fears is losing my mom to dementia and her performance is both terrifying and heartbreakingly sad.
The writing is also wonderful. The scene between Myra the caretaker, Gina, and Billy and the height contest is riddled with tension and you don't know how the scene will end.
One of my favorite writers is Stephen King and he knows how to write sympathetic villains and stories of people losing to their inner darkness. This is one of the best films that King never wrote.
It also reminds me of early Cronenberg with the body horror and the writer director Richard Burgin deftly skirts the line between what is real and what is in Billy's Mind that you the audience don't know what is real.
Independent films usually don't get the love that they deserve but I hope that this can get wide dispersion.
I get scared at movies but it takes a real good movie to truly unsettle me. Fang goes up there with Dexter season 4.
The acting by Dylan La Ray as Billy Cochran and Lynn Lowry as his mother are terrific. La Ray plays a character that you can't help but sympathize with. A young man who struggles with autism and severe anxiety. I struggle with anxiety myself and it easy to make an exploitative character but Billy is real and his journey is heartbreaking.
Lynn Lowry as his mother Gina, a former beauty queen who is suffering from Parkison's dementia is also heartbreaking. One of my greatest fears is losing my mom to dementia and her performance is both terrifying and heartbreakingly sad.
The writing is also wonderful. The scene between Myra the caretaker, Gina, and Billy and the height contest is riddled with tension and you don't know how the scene will end.
One of my favorite writers is Stephen King and he knows how to write sympathetic villains and stories of people losing to their inner darkness. This is one of the best films that King never wrote.
It also reminds me of early Cronenberg with the body horror and the writer director Richard Burgin deftly skirts the line between what is real and what is in Billy's Mind that you the audience don't know what is real.
Independent films usually don't get the love that they deserve but I hope that this can get wide dispersion.