A 74-minute powder keg: one kid, one drunk mom, one restraining order, zero chill.
Moved to another town, Jamin is now in eleventh grade, living with his alcoholic mother, and the beneficiary of court-ordered protection from his abusive father. A few more negative experiences and Jamin snaps.
Acting
McDevitt's Jamin simmers until he doesn't — genuinely unnerving.
Production
Zero-budget authenticity makes the dread feel illegally intimate.
Director
Alexander Johnston
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Alexander Johnston reportedly shot this in his actual North Carolina hometown using local theater actors, explaining the raw, unpolished performances that critics later called 'accidentally documentary.'
Released the same year as 'Scream' and 'I Know What You Did Last Summer,' this micro-budget trauma-horror was utterly buried — now rediscovered as a grim counter-narrative to glossy '90s teen slashers.
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