Where is the line? The line that cannot be crossed … where,
once crossed, no matter the reasons, there is no redemption!
Indican Pictures
announced this past week that writer/director Nicholas Holland’s Wronged,
a revenge/horror thriller, will be making its DVD debut on Feb. 26.
David (Shaun O’Malley — Deceitful)
and his wife Andrea (Angela Roberts Johnson — Detroit Unleaded, Patience, a
Twisted Love Story) have just experienced something that no parent
wants to face, the miscarriage of a child.
Although they already have two other children, David has been struggling
with personal issues and this is one of those “last straw” sort of things.
At the behest of their
marriage counselor — who suggests they take some family time away from the
normal grind — David and Andrea, along with their two kids, join his father and
brother on a camping/hunting trip. It will be peaceful, remote … a place to heal
and a time to reflect on what is lost and what still remains.
It seems like a perfectly
reasonable thing to do. Connect with
family, enjoy the outdoors and take a break from the grind of the day, but no
sooner do they settle in when a screw-loose savage by the name of John Vicard (Matthew
Siman — Moving Parts) and his merry band of sadists descend upon David
and his family. Wrong place, wrong time
and a man who thinks killing for sport is a nice way to pass the time.
For all the world, Vicard
and his black-clad warriors look like paint-ball enthusiasts out for a weekend
of fun and adventure, but in Wronged things quickly turn to the
dark side as Vicard starts to make good on his promise that no one in David and
Andrea’s camping party will leave the woods alive!
Once that line is crossed
and blood is shed there is no turning back for a man already consumed with
grief! Wronged quickly becomes
an eye-for-an-eye revenge thriller where ultimately there are no “good guys,”
only those who survive and those who die.
In other release news
this past week from Indican Pictures, writer/director Johnny O’Reilly’s
multi-story tale of life, love and “other things” in Moscow, which is appropriately
titled, Moscow Never Sleeps, will be making its domestic DVD debut on
Feb. 12.
One thread of the story
finds an aging actor by the name of Valery (Yuri Stoyanov) waiting out his
final days (a terminal illness) in a Moscow hospital. What a dreary way to die, so he takes it on
the lamb, but ends up being kidnapped by a fellow named Arto (Rustam
Akhmadeyev) and his cadre of misfits.
Famous actor equals money … but he’s dying, talk about a kidnapping not
thought completely through.
Tangent to this is
Valery’s son, Ilya (Oleg Dolin), who is literally obsessed with his former
girlfriend, a popular singer, who is now involved with a wheel-dealer
businessman by the name of Anton (Alexey Serebryakov) … he must have her
back! So stalk her he does.
The last thread of this
wonderful tale involves a teenage girl by the name of Kcenia (Lubov Aksenova)
and her stepsister, Lera (Anastasia Shalonko), who is on a mission to find her
biological father … teenage girls on the streets of Moscow, how can that
possibly to be a problem?
The cloth of the story is
stitched together by filmmaker O’Reilly — with the city of Moscow as its star —
weaving this way and that, but in the end making connections, sometimes in most
unusual ways.
Moscow Never Sleeps is presented in Russian with English subtitles.
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