2/18/2024 0 Comments Robert forster wolf of snow hollowThe Wolf of Snow Hollow, released by Orion Classics, is set in a small mountain town gripped by fear as bodies start piling up after each full moon. You would never notice it, but we have this behind the scenes footage on an iPhone, of my buddy leaning against the car and shaking it while poor Riki is inside the car acting like it’s snowy out. We just threw some lights over her to make it look like she was driving fast and turned the police siren on, then I like zoomed in really quickly. It’s only a two or three-second shot, but the car is actually parked in our driveway. “Then there’s a shot of Riki Lindhome, who plays Officer Julia Robson, where she’s driving the cop car, speeding towards the climax. That was shot about eight months or a year later,” he reminisced, laughing. The entire montage of the interrogations was shot on my DSLR in an office next to our production studio. ![]() The small budget, by Hollywood studio standards, didn’t stop Cummings from achieving some nifty cinematography. ![]() Sounds promising.Remove These 3 Skills From Your Resume And Add These Instead Cummings currently has The Beta Test in post-production, a horror thriller set in Hollywood. You could say the same for the entire film – smart, angry and angular yet familiar enough to almost slide by unnoticed, if you weren’t paying attention. He’s a good guy under it all, probably, though Cummings doesn’t give us an easy ride – if you saw Cummings’s portrayal of a troubled cop in Thunder Road, it’s pretty much the same guy here, except a bit smarter and a lot angrier. At one point he even smacks the pathologist examining a dead body. Marshall is furious all the time – when he’s not snarling at his wife, or railing at his daughter, he’s punching colleagues in the face or firing them for being stupid, his character acting as a kind of blackly comedic counterpoint to the ongoing slaughter. They’re dismissive, contemptuous, angry that the cops “haven’t caught him yet” – writer Cummings neatly catching the mood of the “defund the police” moment.īut what most elevates The Wolf of Snow Hollow from standard-issue grisly whodunit territory is the character of Marshall himself, a recovering alcoholic who has so much internal fury that even when he says “anger management issues” at an AA meeting he looks like he’s going to bite someone. On top of that is the attitude of the local townsfolk towards the police. As for the rest of them, trusted buddy Julia Robson (excellent Riki Lindhome) aside, they seem to consist of post-truthers convinced it’s a werewolf, or cops so lazy they want the FBI to take the case. Marshall’s fellow cops consist of his dad (Robert Forster in one of his final roles), a sick and old sheriff who will not retire and who’s good only for raising morale. Is it a wolf – there are plenty in the snowy hills that surround Snow Hollow? Or a human – as rationalist cop John Marshall (Cummings) suspects? And sure enough, in no time the big bad wolf has killed her too. A few minutes further along into the running time, again in an extremely familiar scenario, we are introduced to a snowboard instructor, who we understand immediately from the TMI backstory we’re being given at speed is “the next victim”. But there is that missing vagina to consider. Superficially, from its aerial establishing shots to its set-ups in diners and gas-station forecourts, The Wolf of Snow Hollow looks like a standard-issue TV shocker. These days it’s the Lifetime Channel and other like it whose churn-em-out production schedules keep camera crews and lighting riggers, set dressers and make-up artists in work, and enable them refine their skills. And if it flopped, at least it didn’t cost much. As long as it satisfied genre conventions, the back office was happy. This sort of thing used to happen from time to time when B movies were still being made – a gifted but hardly box office director would be given a crew who knew their shit and a week to turn something out. That gruesome detail is emblematic of a film otherwise made strictly to a formula, the twist added by writer/director/star Jim Cummings lifting everything onto another plane. When the cops show up, there are body parts everywhere and Brianne’s vagina is missing. Back at the cabin, while PJ showers, Brianne is attacked and dismembered by a person or thing unknown. ![]() But before that, they go out to dinner, PJ gets on the wrong side of some local rednecks and things almost get physical. He’s intending to propose later that evening. ![]() Young couple PJ and Brianne check in to a holiday cabin.
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