{"id":40722,"date":"2023-08-17T23:01:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T03:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=40722"},"modified":"2023-08-17T23:01:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T03:01:45","slug":"fallen-drive-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/17\/fallen-drive-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallen Drive (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cFallen Drive\u201d opens up with a silent scene of what looks like a human body wrapped up in garbage bags and duct tape. From there what unfolds is what can best be described as an episode of \u201cAlfred Hitchcock Presents\u201d as directed by Neil Labute. Co-Directors and Writers Nick Cassidy and David Rice deliver what is a powder keg of a thriller that revolves around the concept that high school truly never does end. From the jumping point, \u201cFallen Drive\u201d is teeming with so much tension that it\u2019s literally seeping from every scene.<\/p>\n

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Reese and Charlie, a young couple, arrives at an Air BnB for their high school reunion, and touch base with a few old class mates. What none of them know is that the couple has arrived with plans to exact revenge on former classmate Liam for something horrendous that happened a decade earlier. \u201cFallen Drive\u201d watches so much like a take on \u201cRope\u201d to where a lot of the events that unfold revolve around one setting and on the inevitability of the walls crashing down on our two main characters. What makes \u201cFallen Drive\u201d also so gut wrenching is that so much of what occurs depends on what we\u2019ve heard and not what we know. There\u2019s so much of what could have happened the fateful night that inspired this revenge ploy.<\/p>\n

Or there\u2019s so much that didn\u2019t happen or couldn\u2019t have happened. Is it all based on perception or did something actually occur? There\u2019s always this air of uncertainty permeating through out the thriller, and can do nothing but watch these people implode before our eyes. Even when we\u2019re sure we\u2019ve seen everything, we can never truly describe what it is that we\u2019ve just witnessed. It doesn\u2019t take much for their plan to literally fall apart, and it\u2019s just absolutely tough to endure. Almost instantly the circumstances become even more complicated as Liam\u2019s younger brother arrives dead set in seeing his brother.<\/p>\n

This makes matters so much more difficult to squirm out of, and the pair of directors doesn\u2019t hesitate to emphasize the sense of the walls closing in on Reese and Charlie. Throughout the film the directors zero in on the characters\u2019 faces, emphasizing their inherent desperation. This allows for such an uncomfortable experience because it\u2019s all just a powder keg promising to blow up at any moment. The collective cast does a bang up job, especially Maryana Dvorska and Phillip Andre Botello, respectively. \u201cFallen Drive\u201d really is a stellar revenge thriller, one packed with so much potent twists and enough healthy ambiguity that\u2019ll keep you debating long after the credits have rolled.<\/p>\n

Premiering at Cinequest August 18th<\/sup> and 22nd<\/sup> at the San Jose Theater in California.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cFallen Drive\u201d opens up with a silent scene of what looks like a human body wrapped up in garbage bags and duct tape. From there what unfolds is what can best be described as an episode of \u201cAlfred Hitchcock Presents\u201d as directed by Neil Labute. Co-Directors and Writers Nick Cassidy and David Rice deliver what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[302,501,703,840,1087],"class_list":["post-40722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-drama","tag-indie-film","tag-mystery","tag-revenge","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40722","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40724,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40722\/revisions\/40724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}