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Deer Crossing
Starring Christopher Mann, K.J. Linhein, Tom Detrick, Doug Bradley
Directed by Christian Grillo



While on a trip to see her parents, Maggie (Laura Cottrel) and her young son Cole (Sebastian Banes) get in a car accident and are "rescued" by Lukas (K.J. Linhein), who resembles one of those "Duck Dynasty" guys only with an incredibly sick mean streak.

Eight years go by, and Maggie's husband (who was already cheating on her) didn't seem to care at all about his missing family, in fact he's already moved on with a new woman.  Then, out of the blue, he gets a call from Cole, who is now much older and is wondering why the heck no one's been looking for them.

The husband calls former detective Derrick (Christopher Mann), who is now taking care of his sickly wife, and doesn't care anymore about the case, until the wife dies on accident, then he's all on board.  So he travels to the town where the call came from and meets the backwoods sheriff Lock (Doug Bradley), who has a whole mess of secrets.

As the film progresses, it's not just about a missing family, but a town run amok by corruption, greed, and some gay guy who wears pink nail polish, wears an eye-patch, and is somehow seen as extremely threatening.  The ending is so anti-climactic you're left wondering how the heck did they make an almost two hour movie with such drivel.

Seriously, this film was almost two hours long.  And not a lick of it made any sense.  The acting, if you would call it that, was some of the most horrible I've seen in any B-rated flick.  The editing looks like it was done by a blind and deaf guy. 

The storyline of the missing kid has been done before in much better ways - see "Bereavement" or Jennifer Lynch's "Chained" for examples.  Maybe that's why they needed to throw in so many other side adventures - like the sick wife, the gay pirate drug dealer, the gay prostitution ring in the salon, whatever.  They knew they had nothing to work with, so they decided to fill the time with more stuff that didn't work either.

I have no clue how much they bribed the incredibly talented and iconic horror icon Doug Bradley (a.k.a. "Pinhead") to appear in this, but it must've been a huge paycheck for him to lower himself to such filth.

Rating: F

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