Fear Runs Silent

2000, Movie, R, 90 mins

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Truly one for the books, this discombobulated fantasia imbeds a psychological thriller within a scenario about Sasquatch. Troubled teenager Kerry (Suzanne Davis) is at her wit's end and finally accedes to her mom and stepdad's request that she go into therapy. Kerry suffers from a nightmare in which an Indian shaman tells her about a snowbound couple who were chomped to death by a fanged creature, and sees omens everywhere. Kerry's parents also encourage her to participate in an upcoming biology-class field trip, but Kerry is too immobilized by nightly visions of butchery to attend. She senses that she and her fellow students will wind up like the couple in her dream. Kerry's shrink (Dan Lauria) pressures her to try hypnosis and then helps her regress to her childhood. She can't shake an image of her stepfather molesting her. Whether this is an authentic repressed memory or not, Kerry guards her virginity around John (James O'Shea), the classmate on whom she has a crush. Despite her therapist's assurances, Kerry can't be certain whether her fear of Bigfoot is a portent or the by-product of childhood trauma. Eventually, she decides to join the student expedition. But once they're in the deep woods, Sasquatch makes mincemeat of a local sheriff, his deputy, Kerry's professor and her classmates. Kerry must fight both Sasquatch and her own inner demons to stay alive and sane. Incoherently filmed from a nonsensical script, this pile of psychological twaddle aspires to recycle the trance-like structure of DEAD OF NIGHT, but its ineptitude turns it into a poor man's COMPANY OF WOLVES. leave a comment --Robert Pardi
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