In Cinemas 14th & 16th
September 2022
Streaming from 21st October 2022
Horror, Thriller – Rated R
(Reviewed by John Glennie)
John Bishop (Michael Lombard) is a calm, upstanding pastor and a single Dad with two lovely daughters. His mild manner is displayed when they are Christmas Tree shopping when an obnoxious shopper takes their selected tree from Sara (Katie Kelly) and John does nothing about it. Later that day Sara asks why she can’t have a social life like other 17-year olds. Realising that she is growing up, he jokingly says to the younger Rebecca (Abbey HAfer) “promise me you won’t become a teenager”. John allows her to take his car to go to a party that evening but with a curfew.
Meanwhile, across town in a dark warehouse, a drug deal is taking place where a wheelchair-bound dealer is selling heroine to a syndicate rep. However, this goes brutally wrong and the dealer ends up unconscious in the boot of a card.
Fate has it that Sara is filling up her Dad’s car at the same time as the drug buyer. Unfortunately, the dealer regains consciousness at the wrong time, ending up with the terrified girl being fleeing in the car and being chased. She calls her father and he hears what appears to be a case of road rage, but with a shocking outcome.
After Sara’s funeral, Detective Jed Sawyer (Marc Menchaca) reveals to the distraught pastor that it wasn’t road rage, but a brutal murder. He vows to hunt down the killer as he has experienced a similar loss. Despite being advised not to, John also searches for the killer.
Using security camera footage, Jed reveals to John one night, that the killer’s name is Vic, and he has him in custody. He makes John an offer to spend one minute alone with the murderer, to do anything he wants – except kill. Will John go against his strong religious beliefs and take up the offer? Will he face his daughter’s murderer? Can he go through with retaliation?
Jed takes him to a cabin in the woods, then leads him into underground tunnels where John comes face-to-face with the ruthless killer. What does he do? I know what I would do under similar circumstances, but I am not a pastor! What would you do?
I recommend going to the cinema to see for yourself. I saw the screener for this at home but I think it would be a whole lot better on the big screen!
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