{"id":25892,"date":"2017-08-01T06:06:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T10:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=25892"},"modified":"2020-07-29T11:10:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:10:35","slug":"68-kill-2017-fantasia-international-film-festival-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/01\/68-kill-2017-fantasia-international-film-festival-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"68 Kill (2017) [Fantasia International Film Festival 2017]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A man living in an abusive relationship is put through the ringer and finds his inner strength to survive and move on following a wild and crazy night and day.<\/p>\n

Based on the novel by Bryan Smith, written and directed by Trent Haaga, 68 Kill is an insane ride filled by crazy, lunatic characters.\u00a0 The whole thing seems completely nuts and ludicrous but it works.\u00a0 Somehow, Haaga took all the most ridiculous characters and situations and makes them work in a sort of white-trash opera.\u00a0 Here all the characters do dumb things for dumb reasons and they almost all are assholes and lunatics, yet the film is crazy fun to watch and has a story that moves at a good, fast pace and leads to a satisfactory ending.\u00a0 Haaga took all of the most unlikely elements to make one of those film that should not work yet does so beautifully.<\/p>\n

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This is all made possible by a carefully chosen cast who give their all in terms of going batshit crazy and never shying away from ridiculous situations and set-ups.\u00a0 In the lead part of Chip is Matthew Gray Gubler who is normally the sweetest, most energetic person and here he uses that to bring his character to life and give him a good arch through the film\u2019s story.\u00a0 His performance is the anchor of the film and the main reason the whole shebang works so well.\u00a0 Playing against his sweet, misguided Chip are two women who are different types of crazy.\u00a0 AnnaLynne McCord plays her crazy mean girlfriend character with confidence and just the right touch of insanity that never really leaves her eyes.\u00a0 Alisha Boe plays Violet, a source of inspiration and hope for Chip who also doesn\u2019t seem to be all sane.\u00a0 Her presence is very welcomed and works with the film\u2019s general feeling to give Chip what he needs to go on.\u00a0 The rest of the cast plays crazy mofos to the best of their abilities which all comes together to make this film one hell of a thrill ride.<\/p>\n

The practical special effects by Charles Lucia and William Spataro are fantastically bloody and gooey with a few spots that are not as good but those are so few that they are easily forgivable, especially given how the film didn\u2019t wuss out on the effects and did mostly practical ones and some gutsy ones at that too.<\/p>\n

68 Kill is a horror-comedy-action thrill ride, one that goes for insane and then amps up the volume on that way past 11.\u00a0 The performances sell the insanity and the violence just keeps the viewer glued to the action.\u00a0 It\u2019s a film that\u2019s hard to describe without giving too much away and may very well be better watched knowing as little as possible about it.\u00a0 Director Trent Haaga has managed what many others don\u2019t in making the audience care about a story in which 99% of characters are unlikable assholes who do crazy things for dumb reasons.\u00a0 The anchor character and performance being that of Matthew Gray Gubler without whom the film would have failed miserably.\u00a0 His presence paired with Haaga\u2019s work make this one a must see.<\/p>\n

Fantasia International Film Festival runs from July 13th to August 2nd.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A man living in an abusive relationship is put through the ringer and finds his inner strength to survive and move on following a wild and crazy night and day. Based on the novel by Bryan Smith, written and directed by Trent Haaga, 68 Kill is an insane ride filled by crazy, lunatic characters.\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2497,1284,12],"tags":[219,240,874,1087],"class_list":["post-25892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasia-fest","category-festivalsevents","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-crime","tag-romance","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25892","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=25892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25894,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25892\/revisions\/25894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}