Dunsmore

Based on a true story, Dunsmore is a gritty, low budget redneck flick about small town bully Ronny Roy Pritcher (W. Earl Brown) who is such a despicable lowlife that he makes some of novelist Larry Brown's characters look like Ivy League Hamptons dwellers.

In the opening scene, Pritcher is blown away outside a bar by no less than 40 rounds of ammunition. The killer(s) are not revealed, but it's not difficult to surmise that they are a large group of townspeople who have simply had enough of him.

The rest of the film follows an investigator from the state attorney's office (Kadeem Hardison....and yes, he's black) as he interviews various victims of Pritcher's sadistic behavior, which is seen in flashbacks.

The film has a cheap look and feel to it, with passable cinematography and acting. Actually, the whole low budget vibe is appropriate to the subject matter.

This one of those films that you keep watching with a kind of horrified fascination. The characters are so unrealistic and over the top, it's pretty hard to take it seriously. On the plus side, veteran actor Barry Corbin plays the town's former sheriff in a small but significant role.

Well told story of an interesting event .

No the most cinematically brilliant but one of those small time movies well worth watching.

This is an awesome film depicting the dark side of life for one small town's citizen. All the characters seem very well done. It seemed that everyone had a motive for the crime that occurred, yet everyone had an alibi. Because it was a quite serious movie, i particularly liked the comic relief of Gilroy (i think was his name). He lightened up some of the situations. You have to wonder was that what he was really like or did he put this act on for the outsiders visiting the town. The bad guy is truly bad and you can see why what happens to him happens. I don't usually like flashbacks, but this film contains good use of them. The sheriff was a good character - his face is familiar, i think i have seen him on TV. Scary (for that town) to think that the film was "based on a true story!" Well done.

After a violent opening and a setup to let you get to know the characters, the movie keeps building momentum as we realize that nothing is really what it seems to be. In the end it makes you think about right and wrong without preaching at you. I highly recommend it.

This movie is a heck of a lot of fun!!!

Here's how it breaks down:

The death of a feared and hated man leads to a conspiracy of silence in this drama. Walter Taylor (Kadeem Hardison) is an investigator from the state attorney general's office who is sent to a small Southern town to investigate an unusual murder. Ronny Roy Pritchett (W. Earl Brown) was a town bully who could intimidate just about anyone into giving him what he wanted until he was found outside a local tavern one night with 40 shots in his body and no witnesses who would say they saw or heard the attack. With the help of cheerful but ineffectual Sheriff Miller (Rus Blackwell), Taylor begins questioning citizens about Pritchett, including his two wives (Jeanetta Arnette and Alicia Lagano), who have decidedly different memories of their late husband, and Mildred (Talia Shire), the wife of a local pastor who was murdered a few weeks before Pritchett. In time, Taylor begins to piece together a picture of Pritchett's REIGN OF TERROR in the town, as well as his brutally violent relationship with former Sheriff Breen (Barry Corbin). Directed by Peter Spirer, who previously made several respected documentaries on hip-hop culture, including Beef, Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel -- The Life of an Outlaw, and Rhyme & Reason, Dunsmore rocks out like rockstar!

Bottom line: you'll want more, more, MORE of Dunsmore!