{"id":21033,"date":"2016-06-15T07:37:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T11:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=21033"},"modified":"2016-06-15T07:38:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T11:38:30","slug":"hank-boyd-is-dead-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/15\/hank-boyd-is-dead-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Hank Boyd Is Dead (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HankBoyd\"<\/a>Accused murdered Hank Boyd has died and his mother wants him remembered with a funeral and gathering at the family home.\u00a0 Sarah is hired to work this gathering for the local catering company.\u00a0 As the hours pass, the Boyd family grows stranger and stranger and Sarah must fight for her life.<\/p>\n

Written and directed by Sean Melia for whom this is a first full length feature film, the story seems simple at first: A child murderer has died in a small town and his family is trying to keep a minimum of respect for him at his funeral.\u00a0 However, as more and more is discovered about the Boyd family, the more twisted the story becomes.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t only about Sarah\u2019s survival among this family but also about how crazy can one family really be.\u00a0 The story is fairly well written and unfolds at a good pace, never losing the viewer\u2019s attention but also not exactly feeling like it\u2019s doing anything new with the crazy family aspect.<\/p>\n

The acting is decent from the leads and supporting cast.\u00a0 Standouts are Carole Monferdini as the aging and slowly losing it clan matriarch, Beverly Boyd, who alternates between sweet old lady and crazy violent bitch.\u00a0 Her performance is nuanced with a touch of bat shit insane.\u00a0 The other standout if Stefanie E. Frame as Sarah Walsh, the outsider who becomes captive and fights for her life.\u00a0 She shows a range of emotions from boredom to stunned surprise to desperation which adds to the viewers\u2019 care for her character.<\/p>\n

Hank Boyd Is Dead<\/strong><\/a> is a violent film but there is no gore and very little blood, the horror here is more psychological in nature.\u00a0 Yes, there is violence, but what is meant to shock is the story, the characters\u2019 backgrounds, and the family dynamics, not the physical damage made to others (except in a couple of scenes).\u00a0 That being said, it is a violent film with some disturbing aspects, however for a more jaded audience, it\u2019s not quite enough to have much of an effect.<\/p>\n

The film has good performances in general, a fairly good story, decent dialogue, but nothing is really shocking or new.\u00a0 At 76 minutes, it\u2019s a fairly short feature which allows it to not overstay its welcome.\u00a0 The twists are interesting but will be predictable to some.\u00a0 Nonetheless, the film is entertaining while not breaking any new ground in the crazy family with major issues horrific drama sub-genre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Accused murdered Hank Boyd has died and his mother wants him remembered with a funeral and gathering at the family home.\u00a0 Sarah is hired to work this gathering for the local catering company.\u00a0 As the hours pass, the Boyd family grows stranger and stranger and Sarah must fight for her life. Written and directed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[219,438,477,501,1087],"class_list":["post-21033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-h","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21035,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21033\/revisions\/21035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}