A town is being evacuated due to a water contamination
crisis. Jack (Jason David Brown) is the
local Septic Man just trying to get his pregnant wife Shelley (Molly Dunsworth)
to safety when a mysterious man by the name Phil Prosser (Julian Richings)
tasks Jack with finding out what is contaminating the water in exchange for
financial stability for him and his family.
This is the basis for film Septic Man (2013).
Jack is a man trying to do well by his family but gets
trapped in a septic pit with no way out.
He soon discovers the true terror he is in as the septic pit is crawling
with dead bodies and other biological monstrosities. He is stuck in a cesspool that the longer he
remains the more he changes becoming one with the cesspool. He also soon discovers that this septic pit
is the dumping ground of a pair of serial killers who want to keep their
hideaway a secret. As Jack spends more
time in the septic pit he starts to lose touch with reality.
Written by Tony Burgess and directed by Jesse Thomas Cook
this is a slow building film as it takes its time allowing the audience to
watch Jack mental and physical deterioration.
This film is not for everyone. It’s
like an extended version of watching Jeff Goldblum’s Seth Brundle from The Fly
(1986) go through his slow transformation for 90 minutes. The other problem is that it doesn’t really
go anywhere for much of the second act as we are simply watching Jack slowly
deteriorate and go mad. The serial
killer part of the story is interesting but doesn’t really fit within the
confines of the story but it needs something to keep the plot propelling
forward or there wouldn’t be much of a film.
This being said, the overall film has great production
values and is a visually disturbing concoction (so you gore fans should be
pleased).
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