Rust creek5/4/2023 The dynamic inside that trailer gives the film its shot at novelty, even if Julie Lipson and Stu Pollard’s script doesn’t quite make the scenario pay off. Meanwhile, Sawyer crosses paths with Lowell (Jay Paulson), a meth cook who is either going to save her or keep her tied up in his trailer house indefinitely. Sheriff O’Doyle (Sean O’Bryan), a good ol’ boy with impressively arched eyebrows, is none too worried about the car left abandoned on one of his back roads, but his less laissez-faire deputy (Jeremy Glazer) may manage to get an investigation going despite him. Hill) offer help, but the interaction gets sticky in no time Sawyer knows how to defend herself, but soon she’s out in the woods, suffering a nasty leg wound and having injured the fellas just enough to make them want to hunt her down.Ĭutaways to the nearest town suggest it’ll be a while before anyone starts looking for our hero. Hollister (Micah Hauptman) and Buck (Daniel R. Rust Creek is not a dialogue-driven film, especially in the action-driven first act, but Corfield’s telling micro-expressions keep us with her on every painful step of her journey.But GPS leads her astray, and while stuck many miles from the highway, she is approached by two brothers who’ve stumbled out of a hicksploitation flick. ![]() With Rust Creek she lives up to that promise, and McGowan wisely puts a lot of faith in Corfield’s hyper-expressive face to communicate without saying a word. Corfield made a lot of just a few moments on screen charismatic, strong chemistry with her scene partner (Tom Cruise, no less), and one of those faces seemingly made for lighting up a screen. I’ve been waiting to see a solid starring vehicle for Corfield since her memorable bit part in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, where she plays the ill-fated record shop attendant in the film’s opening minutes. One quick and violent encounter with two local yokels later - which demonstrates Sawyer is a hyper-competent, quick-thinking fighter - and Sawyer is running through the dense woods with a deep wound and no sense of direction. Like many survival thrillers, Rust Creek follows a young college co-ed, Sawyer ( Hermione Corfield) into a remote forest, where she gets lost on her way to an important job interview. Screenwriter Julie Lipson and director Jen McGowan aren’t as interested in putting their heroine through a graphic, exploitative wringer (though they indulge in the thrills of survivalism in the film’s familiar first act) as they are invested in the character drama of her survival. Fortunate then, that there are films like Rust Creek that surprise by leaning into the strengths of the backwoods thriller while subverting the predicted beats. Which is all to say that when you start a movie and see an ambitious young city girl get lost in the woods, you feel like you’ve got a pretty strong sense of where this is all going to go. Evil, joining the ranks of zombie movies, slashers, vampires and the other horror staples so popular they spawn self-referential humor. We’ve seen so many fish out of water horror over the years and the deep woods killer/rapist has become such a recognizable trope that it got the meta-horror treatment with Tucker and Dale vs. ![]() If you’ve watched enough thrillers, you know that nothing good comes to city folk who wander into the backwoods.
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