Something unimaginably horrific has transpired before their eyes. That make or break moment comes shortly thereafter, and the cast and director Pinkin utterly blow it. It won’t be too long before their endless debate about the legacy of slavery and ingrained racist beliefs and systems is interrupted by the inevitable “Did you hear that?” The bizarre decor of their old rental house, the Melania in a Bikini aiming a gun with a laser-pointer light embedded in it doesn’t chase them away. Even seeing local white women wearing that symbol in matching black cult suits as they roll into town doesn’t dissuade our travelers. That’s their first “red flag.” But the viewer’s seen others - this pale redhead ( Catherine Curtin) making bread with drops of blood in it, the bizarre symbol on her top. Osakalumi), Lily ( Kathryn Erbe) and Jewish joker Nick ( Jake O’Flaherty) Latin immigrant Rocky ( Rubén Blades) and Croatian Serb Emelia ( Luba Mason) sing the old Gospel protest song, “Marching Up to Freedom Land,” mutter about the “white supremacy” that the past four years has brought out from under a rock and even stop to pull down a one of those racist road signs yokels have been putting up all over the rural South since Trump gave them permission. It’s Halloween, just before the election, and Cass (Pinkins), Anglo-African husband Bobby ( Adesola A.
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“Could you get inside of their heads and destroy their believes with fact?”īut once they arrive at their small town off-brand AirBnB, the horror begins and the movie sputters like a deflating balloon. Our first-time feature director and star takes her ensemble to “the slave breeding capital of the world” and gives them lots of politically-sharp banter for the drive down.Ĭracks about “Flat Earthers” and “hillbillies” and “genocide” and “Ms.-ogyny” and how “people are loyal to groups built on lies” pepper the conversation. Veteran stage and screen (“Madame Secretary,” “Fear the Walking Dead”) actress Tonya Pinkins packs good players into a GMC Yukon for a jaunt South, to rural Virginia for a weekend of voter canvassing. And that’s pretty much where “Red Pill” goes wrong.Ī well-cast old-leftists-go-Red-Stating thriller in the “Get Out/Red State/The Last Supper” vein, it lands its satiric political punches (sort of) but botches the “Cabin in the Woods” basics.
The make or break moment for me in any horror movie is that first time characters are confronted with the horror, be it supernatural or simple slaughter.
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