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A girl drives alone through the American heartland when she is hunted by villains.
If the girl dies...
Then she'd be stuffed into the police file as a missing persons message.
Whenever her family asked the police for an explanation, they would be put off by high-sounding reasons, until it finally turned into a tragedy of [Three Billboards]...
If she didn't die!
Then she is the witness of the rust scars on this land—
Rusty Creek Horror
Rust Creek
The thriller titled [The Rusty Creek Horror] is a small production independent film.
The story tells the story of a female college student Sawyer driving alone to Washington to interview for a job, passing through the desolate land of Kentucky and encountering a desperate escape...
There are no big-name stars and no amazing scenes.
But this independent work with only 5 main actors has a brutal and cold temperament comparable to classics such as [Eden Lake] and Sheridan's "Frontier Trilogy".
The plot of a group of villains, besieging a girl...
It is easy to think of the couple from the city in [Eden Lake] , who were tortured and killed by a group of villainous children in the countryside, which is horrifying.
British film "Lake Eden" 2008
Even though this [Rusty Creek Horror] only got a 5.6 rating, I'm still serious about expressing that the part of the movie that audiences overlooked...
It also frames the environment, characters, and subject in the same scene.
Witness the moment when "a piece of land is about to decline" through "The Escape of a Girl" .
It's like the "frontier" field in Sheridan's lens, which is usually abandoned by modern civilization, with the primitive animal nature of the jungle...
Sheridan's Frontier Trilogy: Killer on the Frontier, Going Through Fire and Water, Hunting the Wind Valley
At first glance [Rusty Creek] is more like a road trip movie.
Passing through the picturesque middle of the United States, the autumn deciduous forest is quite layered in the interlaced distant and close-up views, and a red SUV embellishes the picture.
But the crisis is often brewing in a calm and peaceful...
Get lost first!
The accident on the highway forced Sawyer to take a detour, but when he got off the highway, he went further and further.
(already a bad omen)
But the confident Girl who had graduated from college and wanted to step into the society did not turn around, but drove straight into the depths of the sparsely populated jungle in Rust Creek...
On the other side, her dazzling red SUV caught the attention of others.
The ruffian brothers Horst and Buck saw Sawyer and followed her. They seemed to be kind to help the lost girl, but in fact they didn't have any good intentions!
Sawyer obviously also learned a few tricks to defend against wolves...
The confrontation developed into a fight!
As a result, one of the brothers was inserted with a knife and the bridge of the nose was broken.
And Sawyer also fled into the woods with a knife wound, and she fell into a dilemma of isolation and dilemma in this place known as Rusty Creek by the locals ...
On one side, two brothers were holding shotguns, searching in a carpet-like manner.
On one side, Sawyer was hiding all the way out of blood.
Just when Sawyer was powerless to resist, a strange figure took her away...
When she woke up again, she was trapped in an RV.
The man named Lowell in front of her imprisoned her, but he helped her heal her wounds and promised to send her out of this dangerous place...
But Lowell is an old acquaintance with the brothers who were chasing her!
Even when the local sheriff came to his house to inquire, he deliberately concealed Sawyer's existence, and there seemed to be some ulterior conspiracy...
And the so-called sheriff doesn't seem to have any intentions...
The superior has ordered the local sheriff to find Sawyer's whereabouts as soon as possible, but the seemingly righteous sheriff does not intend to rescue the lost girl...
Instead, he wants to silence this accidental intruder - murder!
after all…
Who is the good guy? Who is the bad guy?
This story of a girl getting lost doesn't create horror with blood...
Instead , in the mode of "killing game" , the extrajudicial land of Rusty Creek is used as the background, and the several characters involved in the case each have their own goals and kill each other.
Doesn't this look like the plot of a classic thriller [Lake Eden]?
The couple who were going on vacation were tortured and killed by a group of naughty country children. The most terrifying thing is that the heroine still falls into the homes of these children at the end of the film...
Many people take the "Lake of Eden" story as a warning that the villains are hard to guard.
But the director's intention is actually to reflect the status quo of British social groups under the "rich-poor gap" and "educational imbalance" . The broadcast in the film broadcasts news of educational reform, and the graffiti on the roadside shows the local people's dislike of the elite...
The so-called extrajudicial places are places abandoned by modern society.
The villains in the movie "Lake Eden"
This is more vividly shown in Sheridan's "Frontier Trilogy"!
[Border Killer], [Walking through fire and water] and [Hunting the Wind River Valley] deeply uncovered the inner connection between the environment, people and crimes——
People (governments) make environmental differences.
Circumstances breed crime.
The consequences of the tragedy are again imposed on people (civilians)…
Such a vicious circle!
The brothers who robbed the bank because of bankruptcy
And Sawyer of [Rusty Creek] is like the social elite in [Eden Lake].
After graduating from college, she received a job offer from Washington, and is about to usher in a successful life with the SUV her parents gave her!
She set off from a college town and went to Washington for the down payment.
One is the ivory tower of higher education, the other is the political and cultural center of the United States, and Sawyer is a character living in modern civilization.
From the university town to the capital Washington, from the civilized world to the civilized world…
But on the road between two o'clock—
Rusty Creek, which Sawyer had inadvertently entered, was a wild and outlawed place.
She looked out the window, off the modern highway, and saw tractors and cattle, then a scavenger colony...
Finally, we drove into a deserted area.
And what kind of background do these villains in Rust Creek have?
Since the last century, American B-level films have begun to create "wilderness strange Tan-style" horror stories, such as [Texas Chainsaw Massacre], [Human Skin Inn], [Thousand Corpse House] and other horror films...
All are educating the audience:
It's okay, don't wander into unfamiliar territory!
But actually…
These "Murderers in Special Regions" and "Sheridan's Frontier Crimes" have the same background and are alienated personalities far from modern civilization.
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
Back to the land in [Rust Creek Horror]…
The local ruffian brothers did not have a family at their age, and they looked like half-decadent waste. They made a living by making and selling drugs.
Even the sheriff is behind the scenes!
And Lowell, who rescued Sawyer, was also forced to become an accomplice in drug production...
The girl Sawyer thought she was inadvertently intruding.
They think the girl has uncovered Rusty Creek's hidden drug web.
There is this detail in the video:
The sheriff used the words "chief" and "indian" to describe their superiors and subordinates when questioned by the adjutant , and apparently he regarded himself as the owner of Rust Creek...
Murder is more than goods, and the destruction of corpses has long been a familiar way!
However, such a degenerate place is not rotten to the core.
For example, there are good people like Lowell...
He rescued Sawyer and planned how to help her get out of here, and the alien Sawyer also shone into Lowell's life like a sunbeam.
The chat between the two is full of a sense of ritual of "contact between generations"!
Contact between a civilized world and a wild land.
The final climax of the film is only the confrontation between the sheriff and the girl——
The sheriff's attempt to drown Sawyer in Rusty Creek was a fake accident.
Before he started, he slowly told the girl about the origin of Rusty Creek. It was mined by industry many years ago, and the soil stained the river water, so it was named Rusty Creek…
No one cares here now.
It turns out Rusty Creek is also a pre-industrial relic abandoned by the civilized world...
The film ends, of course, with the girl escaping Rusty Creek.
But it makes people feel unhappy at all, because she knows that in addition to high-rise buildings and urban neon, there is such a hell on earth...
And the distorted and alienated crowd!
Just like watching [Texas Chainsaw Massacre] in the past, except for being lucky that someone left alive...
But also silently raised the question:
Is there really such a place in the world, such a villain?
Can not help but a chill!
Humans always boast that they have entered the era of civilization, but the latter half of their bodies seem to be stuck in the primitive quagmire without pulling out their feet...
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