We do ultimately want to see her come out of this harrowing predicament alive. A circle around this small list of players contracts until they each begin to overlap and reveal hidden relationships and power dynamics that can be exploited by Sawyer to stay alive and by the filmmakers to earn our investment. She uses some ingenuity to get out of tough spots and some stubbornness to become caught in more. So she has no choice but to trust this stranger that appearances presume to show is no better than the men hunting her down. The environment quickly becomes a character unto itself too as the distance from Lowell’s trailer to salvation is too far for Sawyer’s injury to go with the brothers scouring the woods for her. They’re pure Appalachian cliché from top to bottom.
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Second is a meth cook named Lowell (Jay Paulson) who’s kind enough to patch Sawyer up at his place after finding her passed out under a tree yet hardened enough to give you pause as far as motivations are concerned. The latter is a fresh-faced newbie with too much energy for his boss to handle, perpetually being saddled with administrative busywork to slow him down. The former is old school, nonplussed, and prone to rattling the cages of those locals he knows to be miscreants. First come Sheriff O’Doyle (Sean O’Bryan) and Deputy Katz (Jeremy Glazer). Let the cat and mouse commence.ĭirector Jen McGowan and screenwriter Julie Lipson (from a story by producer Stu Pollard) take this post-prologue opportunity to introduce a few more characters. A few kicks and stabs later leaves the predators stumbling backwards and covered in blood while their victim’s adrenaline rush takes her deeper into the forest with a dangerous leg laceration impeding her movement. Unfortunately for them, however, she’s not one to succumb to their aggression without a fight. A pretty teen outside her car alone on a desolate road with lecherously and condescendingly giddy rednecks bearing down can spell nothing but trouble. Hill’s Buck), we know where things are bound to go. So when a pick-up pulls over with two brothers feigning a desire to get her on her way (Micah Hauptman’s Hollister and Daniel R. Unfortunately for Sawyer, Rust Creek isn’t the type of place to help unsuspecting travelers escape. Maybe switching to analog (a paper map) will get her back on track. The computerized voice sends her to a dead-end that barely looks like it ever was a road and then to a bridge she’s unsure will support the weight of her car. She packs her SUV, activates her phone’s GPS, and sets off east with an impromptu detour through the backwoods of Kentucky courtesy of a traffic jam on the highway.
It’s the first step towards a post-collegiate future with a job in Washington DC all but secured - the tiniest bit of uncertainty preventing her from telling her folks why she won’t be home for Thanksgiving despite high spirits. When Sawyer Scott (Hermoine Corfield) receives the call she’s been waiting for, she can’t help but smile.
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