Read More: Meet the Faces of SXSW 2015: Sally Field, Nick Kroll, Jason Schwartzman and More It's the summer of 1989. 9-year-old Ted Henley (Jared Breeze) and his father John (David Morse) are the proprietors of The Mt. Vista Motel, a crumbling resort buried in the mountains of the American West. Since Ted's mother left, John has drifted into despondency—leaving Ted to fend for himself. In this isolation, unchecked by the bounds of parenting, Ted’s darker impulses begin to manifest. The arrival of a mysterious drifter, William Colby (Rainn Wilson), captivates young Ted and the two form a unique friendship - setting the stage for Ted’s final, unnerving metamorphosis. "The Boy" is a chilling, intimate portrait of a 9-year-old sociopath's growing fascination with death. [Synopsis courtesy SXSW]. What's your film about in 140 characters or less? "The Boy" is an intimate portrait of of a 9-year-old boy's growing fascination with death. Now what's it Really about?...
- 3/16/2015
- by Casey Cipriani
- Indiewire
"Nobody ever comes back here," says nine-year-old Ted Henley (Jared Breeze) to his father John (David Morse) in "The Boy," in reference to the isolated desert motel that where Craig Macneill's eerie 1988-set thriller takes place. It's an apt summation of the dark, purgatorial quality that permeates each scene of Macneill's sophomore feature. Adapted from one chapter in Clay McLeod Chapman's 2003 book "Miss Corpus" (and produced by Elijah Wood's SpectreVision label), the movie explores the childhood of a would-be Norman Bates-like psychopath driven to murderous extremes in adolescence. This is hardly a spoiler considering the morbid inevitability in each scene, but Macneill's elegant treatment of the material keeps its central mystery in play, with the palpable suspense derived from how and when young Ted will finally snap. Read More: The 2015 Indiewire SXSW Bible Raised solo by his father after his mother's departure before the movie begins,...
- 3/16/2015
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Welcome to another horror round-up! In this edition, we take a look at new posters for a pair of movies making their premieres in the Midnighters section at the SXSW Film Festival later this month: The Boy (which sounds a little like Stevan Mena's Bereavement) and The Invitation (the new film from Jennifer's Body director Karyn Kusama). We also have details on Descendant, a new spec script from the writer who penned the screenplay adaptation of Clive Barker's The Midnight Meat Train.
The Boy: "It’s the summer of 1989. 9-year-old Ted Henley (Jared Breeze) and his father John (David Morse) are the proprietors of The Mt. Vista Motel, a crumbling resort buried in the mountains of the American West. Since Ted's mother left, John has drifted into despondency—leaving Ted to fend for himself. In this isolation, unchecked by the bounds of parenting, Ted’s darker impulses begin to manifest.
The Boy: "It’s the summer of 1989. 9-year-old Ted Henley (Jared Breeze) and his father John (David Morse) are the proprietors of The Mt. Vista Motel, a crumbling resort buried in the mountains of the American West. Since Ted's mother left, John has drifted into despondency—leaving Ted to fend for himself. In this isolation, unchecked by the bounds of parenting, Ted’s darker impulses begin to manifest.
- 3/5/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
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