{"id":22220,"date":"2016-09-06T18:26:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T22:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22220"},"modified":"2016-09-06T18:43:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T22:43:21","slug":"crow-2016-frightfest-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/06\/crow-2016-frightfest-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Crow (2016) [FrightFest 2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Crow\"<\/a>A rich land developer buys a big piece of land on which stands a protected forest and wants to clear most of it to build a mansion for his wife and himself.\u00a0 Standing in his way are a group of travelers squatting the land and its farmhouse.\u00a0 As he forces them out and starts clearing the land, forces show their discontent.<\/p>\n

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The film is based on a stage play by Tim Rhys, adapted by Wyndham Price and Nick Moran, with Price directing and Moran starring.\u00a0 Having not seen the stage play, a comparison is not possible.\u00a0 However, the film is well written, with interesting character, and an intriguing use of potential supernatural forces.\u00a0 The film sets a battle between the travelers and the developer and his people.\u00a0 The way the story unfolds brings local and traveler folklore into the story, creating a fascinating story with many layers to it.<\/p>\n

The cast for this film is led by an almost unrecognizable Nick Moran who took a minute to be recognized as the once upon a time lead of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.\u00a0 His talent however is as it was, giving off a good performance as a truly evil person ready to go to any length to get what he believes his rightfully his.\u00a0 The way Moran plays him brings the despicable side of the character as the story advances.\u00a0 His character of Tucker is a strong, but dislikable lead.<\/p>\n

As Tucker\u2019s nemesis, Crow, Tom Rhys Harries gives a powerful turn carrying the wrath of his family and of his people, this wrath coming across full well through him even as his character goes fully mute during his attack and retaliation in the forest.\u00a0 His is a powerhouse performance.\u00a0 As his ancestor\/deity, Great Crow, Terence Stamp has a strong screen presence for his few short scenes, leaving a valued impression with just a few minutes of screen time.<\/p>\n

The film, particularly the scenes in the woods, looks beautiful.\u00a0 The cinematography by Robin Whenary shows the lush greenery of the British countryside in all its glory.\u00a0 The forest framed by his cinematography becomes almost a character of its own.\u00a0 It\u2019s the center of the story, the reason these people are feuding to this extreme.\u00a0 It\u2019s shown in all its beauty but also a potentially dangerous place if it\u2019s not respected.<\/p>\n

The forest at the center of Crow can easily be taken to represent the environment, how it\u2019s being mistreated and destroyed.\u00a0 The character of Crow represents much more than the defender of the forest but also the defender of a way of life, of a system of beliefs.\u00a0 The film\u2019s folklore is well handled, making the battle between modernity and nature more entertaining.\u00a0 The supernatural forces at play here add to this battle and to how things evolve.\u00a0 Crow is a captivating story of good versus evil with great acting and some trippy imagery, which is beautifully shot.\u00a0 It takes folklore and a stage play and translates them to a film that grips the viewer and makes them want to watch it unfold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A rich land developer buys a big piece of land on which stands a protected forest and wants to clear most of it to build a mansion for his wife and himself.\u00a0 Standing in his way are a group of travelers squatting the land and its farmhouse.\u00a0 As he forces them out and starts clearing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,170,349,367,1087],"class_list":["post-22220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-adaptation","tag-c","tag-fantasy","tag-foreign","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22220","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=22220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22222,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22220\/revisions\/22222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}