Amel Figueroa, writer,
director, producer … and with knowledge of all of the technical aspects of
filmmaking, put together an action flick, with his SaintSinner Entertainment
partner, Brandon Brooks, that is outside of his genre-themed comfort zone.
With the likes of The
Quiet Ones (Figueroa directing, Brooks producing) and Sickness
(Brooks directing and Figueroa handling the producing chores), the pair have
been working the horror-with-a-twist market.
Not the straight-up slasher or creature feature stuff, but films with an
edge.
With their latest, A Man
Possessed, which will be heading home on Feb. 26 on DVD from Wildeye
Releasing, with sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment
Group, we get an introspective revenge thriller.
In a minimalist approach,
Figueroa establishes the relationship between “The Man” (Ricardo Segarra – The
Urn, The Pinelands Murders) and “The Man’s Wife” (Gina Martino — Sickness,
The Avenue, etc.) — we never know their names. They have a loving relationship, which is
soon ripped to shreds. “The Man” still
breathes. Blood flows through his
veins, but is all but dead.
Very much in the spirit
of director Michael Winner’s Death Wish, vengeance becomes “The
Man’s” whole purpose. Parallel to this
is “The Detective” (played by Extreme Championship Wrestling superstar Tommy
Dreamer), who is trying to solve a series of vigilante-style murders. He too has a loving wife (played by Alex
Russo) and perhaps there will be empathy for the killer he pursues … a killer
whose path he eventually must cross!
Filmmaker Amel Figueroa’s A
Man Possessed is about love, loss and the aftermath.
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