Bad Turn Worse
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| German title | Bad Turn Worse |
| Original title | Bad Turn Worse |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 92 minutes |
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| Director |
Simon Hawkins , Zeke Hawkins |
| script | Dutch Southern |
| music | Jonathan Keevil |
| camera | Jeff Bierman |
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Bad Turn Worse is an American thriller by Simon and Zeke Hawkins , which premiered on September 7, 2013 at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada and was shown for the first time in Germany on August 29, 2014 at the Fantasy Filmfest .
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Logan Huffman (2010) and Jeremy Allen White (2013)
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Sue lives in a small community in Texas , surrounded by dusty streets and ugly houses, and she can't wait to finally go to college so that she can finally turn her back on her bleak home. Her friend BJ has almost come to terms with his fate and wants to stay in Texas. However, BJ's best friend Bobby would love to go to college with Sue, and he's secretly in love with her too. On the last weekend before the two of them say goodbye, they all want to do it one last time together. However, BJ stole the money for the party from his boss Giff, and when he notices this, he forces the three friends to make amends by robbing his own boss, gangster Big Red. In this attempt, the friends get deeply into the arms of the local mafia.
production
Brothers Simon and Zeke Hawkins directed the film . Dutch Southern wrote the screenplay for the film . The film pays homage to the Oklahoma-born crime writer Jim Thompson , whose novel The Killer Inside Me in the film of the same name was implemented as film noir by Michael Winterbottom in 2010 and is regularly quoted by Billy Joe's friend.
The Canadian actress Mackenzie Davis took on the role of Sue in the film, the American actors Logan Huffman and Jeremy Allen White got the roles of their friend BJ and his buddy Bobby. The gangster Big Red is portrayed by William Devane .
Reviews
82% of Rotten Tomatoes critics rated Bad Turn Worse positively (from 38 critics as of September 17, 2015) .
Stephen Holden of The New York Times describes the film as Texas Neo-Noir and explains: This little, mean directorial debut by the brothers Zeke and Simon Hawkins, based on a script by Dutch Southern, has a whole den of malicious critters ready to try their poison applies.
Awards
Bad Turn Worse was awarded the Audience Award at the AFI Fest 2013.
Web links
- Bad turn worse in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Reviews of bad turn worse at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Stephen Holden: Cotton Mills, Venom and Dead Ends In: The New York Times, November 13, 2014.
- ↑ Bad Turn Worse In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved September 17, 2015.