Hill, John Marshall Jones, and Jeremy Glazer. The cast includes Hermione Corfield, Jay Paulson, Micah Hauptman, Sean O'Bryan, Daniel R. She is forced into an uneasy alliance with an strange loner with "shadowy intentions", while trying to survive and find her way back home safely.
The film is about an "ambitious, overachieving college senior" who is heading to a job interview, but makes a wrong turn and ends up stranded deep in the frozen Kentucky woods. Nonetheless, there is certainly enough space within that line to evoke dread, touch on feminism and pack convincing twists – all that wrapped in a more than consumable way."If they find you here, they'll kill ya." IFC Midnight has released a trailer for Rust Creek, an indie survival thriller from filmmaker Jen McGowan which premiered at the Bentonville Film Festival earlier this year. With no real risk taken, the director moves along a line sketched by a limited budget and a simple story. McGowan’s “Rust Creek” isn’t, quite naturally, any milestone to the thriller genre. Environment’s pivotal to the film’s atmosphere too – it feels heavy, unwelcoming, and ready to bury a body deep enough to be left uncovered. Micah Hauptman in “Rust Creek” (2019).Īcting aside, Michelle Lawler’s cinematography extracts the grim nature of the grey, soulless forests and equally colourless people living in them. There is not an ideal depth to each one of them, with some of their actions highly disputable, but it is down to creepily realistic Micah Hauptman and Jay Paulson’s unexpected role (which I’ll leave under the cape of “too close to spoiler”) to back Corfield up. In an obviously constraint budget, the story shifts its weight to the characters. “Rust Creek” is most efficient in places where many other movies simply fail to deliver. But with Corfield’s fine role in its centre, the director Jen McGowan’s enabled to opt for shortcuts, or have fun with an off-topic thread that eventually traces back to the protagonist.
of Julie Lipson’s script (based on Stu Pollard’s story) lies in the way Sawyer’s little drama loses none of its grip throughout the multiple changes and tiny details unraveled as we go. She’s a real deal to challenge, and one that outsmarts her attackers in most cases. Without much of a background, Corfield seeks for a relentless, tough type of a survivalist – a woman many would strive to be – without exaggerating her actions. “Rust Creek” elicits emotions thanks to Hermione Corfield’s ability to connect with the audience. This, however, isn’t the case of Jen McGowan’s Sawyer. In less responsible hands, “Rust Creek” would most likely focus on a foreseeable chain of events, where plot twists and visual gimmicks mask the sheer lack of more than just a claptrap. Hermione Corfield in Jen McGowan’s “Rust Creek”. With just a few scenes of introduction, hastily cramped into opening credits, director Jen McGowan moves onto Sawyer’s (main character played by Hermione Corfield) Google Maps bad stretch, and an unpleasant encounter with two local hillbillies – Hollister (Micah Hauptman) and his brother Buck (Daniel Hill). The opening chapter of “Rust Creek” dangerously nudges its protagonist into such sandy mine field. As a result, each element slides the film further into the hole, and while you see those details at play, the deeper meaning’s lost. Those particles are all little things that matter – each character’s arc, character perspectives, dialogues etc., all piling up instead of building a complex story. When survival thrillers stumble upon the moving sands of a full-featured drama, many of them get sucked by an inscrutable movement of millions of particles. Thanks to its unyielding female lead, Jen McGowan’s “Rust Creek” breaks through the genre tropes and delivers a finely crafted thriller with a dramatic understory.
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