Resolution - Movie Review
*SPOILER ALERT*
The best horror films always have a good, believable
story at their core.
Resolution
is about two friends who’ve become estranged because
one of them, Chris, played by
Vinny
Curran,
is now a meth addict and is squatting in the
California Mountains stoned out of his mind.
Meanwhile, the other, Michael (Peter
Cilella)
has a beautiful girlfriend and has moved on to
greener pastures. But he hasn’t given up on his
friend and decides to trek into the hills one weekend
in a last ditch effort to save him from inevitable
death.
After Michael arrives and assesses the situation, he
tazes Chris, handcuffs him to a pipe in an exposed
wall, and dares him to make it a week without any
drugs. That’s the basic set up for
Resolution,
and that alone would make for an interesting movie.
But there are crazy happenings up in “dem dar hills.”
Things that would scare the heck out of someone who
wasn’t getting high 24/7. Oh, and did I mention the
house Chris is squatting in happens to be on a Native
American reservation?
As a horror aficionado, I was pleasantly surprised at
the slow burn pacing of
Resolution.
By that end of that movie,
directorsJustin
Benson
and
Aaron
Moorhead
have ensconced the audience in such a believable,
crazy setting that you get the
feelinganything
could happen - and you really cannot tell
where
Resolution
is going in those last 15 minutes. That’s exciting in
a time when scaring people in the movies is becoming
more and more difficult against a backdrop of
everyday horrors that are worse than the best Stephen
King novel.
There are some funny lines in
Resolution
and a consistent humor that is surprising. I also
liked the way the two main characters behaved
believably when the danger set in. They didn’t do
those things that make you shout at the movie screen,
and yet, they still meet an untimely demise. It’s
much scarier that way. Bravo to all in involved
with
Resolution.
I sense good things on the horizon for Moorhead and
Benson.
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