Mickey Keating has made a career of crafting some tense
thriller films about a limited cast trapped in harrowing circumstances such as
Ritual (2013), Darling (2015), and Pod (2015), to name a few so it is with no
surprise that he continues this trend in CARNAGE PARK (2016). Vivian Fontaine (Ashley Bell) is having a bad
day. While she is trying to get a bank
loan, two thieves rob the bank and take her hostage after the robbery gets
botched and one of them is mortally injured.
During the getaway the bank robbers find their way to an
abandoned road where they try to plan their next mood. One of them dies from their fatal wounds
while the other decides to keep Vivian as insurance. Vivian’s situation seems bright at first when
a shot rings out of the air and kills the final robber but the man responsible
is a deranged ex-military sniper who doesn’t take too kindly to people who
trespass on his land no matter what reasons.
Vivian then finds herself as prey to the sniper as she is now trapped on
an open range where there are few places to hide and there are more horrors in
store the deeper she explores.
Bell does an amazing job carrying the film while Pat Healy
is the psychotic killer Wyatt Moss. Bell
continues to make interesting choices as an actress and constantly surprises. I particularly love her performance as Nell
Sweetzer in The Last Exorcism (2010) and The Last Exorcism Part II (2013) as well
as The Day (2011). The film itself is
just okay as Keating knows how to stage some suspenseful scenes but it just
doesn’t intrigue as much as some of his previous films.
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