This pure-pulp thrill ride jumps between past and present as it pieces together the puzzle of a shocking crime. It’s 1978 and a bank robbery gone wrong leaves Vivian (The Last Exorcism‘s Ashley Bell) the hostage of two criminals on the run. But things go from bad to off-the-rails berserk when she and her captors wind up on the sunbaked desert outpost of a deranged ex-military sniper (Pat Healy), who ensnares them in his deadly game of cat and mouse. Rising horror auteur Mickey Keating (Pod, Darling) directs this gritty, grisly homage to the glory days of grindhouse cinema.
Carnage Park looks nothing short of inspired here. An homage to late 70s horror and the grindhouse days, everything in this trailer is brilliantly cohesive, constructing a very distinct tone. The setting, the characters, the plot, the era, even the colorization feel meticulously selected and pieced together for the best possible effect here. Yet for all the homage this also feels decidedly like a Mickey Keating film, determined to be its own, rather than a slave to its inspiration.
You can see Carnage Park in theater and on VOD July 1st, 2016.
