Tom

Tom Mavis was a young boy, who was the subject of intense emotional abuse and as such he made a suicide pact with a powerful demon. And in that small rural town there are a lot of murders, often centering around two places, Edinburgh County Home and the Jr. High School. There is a tremendous mix of film styles. There is scratchy, grainy footage, there is switching from color to B&W and back again. The story jumps all over the place in a very confusing manner. Young girls go into those areas of town, and later are found wandering, scantily clothed and mentally messed up. They even have "breaking news" segments, and on a radio program, an Alex Jones type announcer about what is happening. And there are interviews with locals, as sort of a documentary investigative approach. It is as if too many different approaches were thrown into one movie, and the result is mainly an incoherent mess. Some of that actors seem to be having a fun time doing their roles. That doesn't translate the same for the viewer.