{"id":43000,"date":"2024-03-02T15:23:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T20:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=43000"},"modified":"2024-03-02T15:23:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T20:23:36","slug":"the-reclaimers-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/02\/the-reclaimers-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reclaimers (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Reclaimers-still.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43001\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Reclaimers-still.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Reclaimers-still.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Reclaimers-still-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Reclaimers-still-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a>I don\u2019t know if \u201cThe Reclaimers\u201d is a proof of concept short film or not, but if director Jason Sheedy is planning a bigger feature, count me in. \u201cThe Reclaimers\u201d is a stellar horror scifi hybrid that watches like a mix of \u201cI Am Legend\u201d and \u201cBird Box.\u201d It\u2019s an interesting concept in a well worn concept that works very well thanks to the single performance by star Erin Ownbey. After her grandparents are killed by invisible creatures, a determined young woman seeks to avenge them with the help of her canine companion &#8211; the only one who can see the mysterious invaders.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As Reagen, Ownbey is memorable playing a protagonist filled with a complex and interesting back story that allows us to get to know her as someone who isn\u2019t quite as heroic as we want to believe. She\u2019s as flawed and filled with regret from a past life that has long died. She spends a lot of her days wallowing in guilt and self destruction and yet she can\u2019t quite seem to stop fighting for her life, no matter what crosses her path. Jason Sheedy posits a wonderful monster for this world, one that\u2019s cunning, fast, relentless and also invisible.<\/p>\n<p>This is obviously for the sake of the budget, but Sheedy implements is well allowing for the purposes of dogs, the only apparent animals that can see the monsters that have laid waste to humanity. We do get one glimpse at them and they\u2019re absolutely formidable foes that have a keen hunting ability, allowing for only a few people to have survived. And their survival is purely by chance and or luck. Sheedy is able to compose this small narrative well with some excellent direction, interesting action and great work with the film\u2019s trusty dog Boone. The premise\u2019s whole emotional weight relies on Boone, and director Sheedy is able to pounce on that vulnerability making him a consistently lovable and inadvertent hero.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe Reclaimers\u201d is teeming with huge potential for a feature, as I\u2019d love to know more about the circumstances as well as these monsters that have seemingly destroyed civilization. As is, \u201cThe Reclaimers\u201d is a top notch genre short with talent from top to bottom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Reclaimers&#8221; is now making its rounds in the festival circuit.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know if \u201cThe Reclaimers\u201d is a proof of concept short film or not, but if director Jason Sheedy is planning a bigger feature, count me in. \u201cThe Reclaimers\u201d is a stellar horror scifi hybrid that watches like a mix of \u201cI Am Legend\u201d and \u201cBird Box.\u201d It\u2019s an interesting concept in a well [&hellip;]<\/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":[477,501,703,906,938,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-43000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-mystery","tag-science-fiction","tag-short-film","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43000","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=43000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43002,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43000\/revisions\/43002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}