With Itsy Bitsy Spider (2020-also reviewed) making it two shorts in a row I'd viewed at the Soho Horror Film Festival to feature a creepy creature,I decided after that double bill,to depart with what sounded like an eerie short.
Note:Review contains some plot details.
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Forced by the police to stop in the middle of the dead-end town they are driving through, co-writer/(with Jada Lewter) cinematographer/director Mylo Butler brings police brutality into the thin light of the blue mist sunset, with close-up whip-pans and darting panning shots hitting the horrific racist abuse and violence the police inflict on Bryce (played with an excellent nervousness by Tashan Thornton in a debut performance.)
Facing the police on their own,the screenplay by Butler & Lewter superbly links the horrors of the past with the present, via ghostly shadows from lynchings of the past, which twists Bryce's helpless state into a mind-set of revenge as the sun goes down.
