Reeker
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| German title | Reeker |
| Original title | Reeker |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Dave Payne |
| script | Dave Payne |
| music | Dave Payne |
| camera | Mike Mickens |
| cut | Daniel Barone |
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Reeker (English "Stinker") is an American independent horror film from 2005.
action
In the opening credits you can see a young family with a dog driving through the desert in a car when suddenly a deer runs onto the road and is hit by the car. When they get out, the dog runs away and when he comes back, his hind legs are missing. When the mother wants to take care of the dog, the father sneaks up from behind, who is missing part of the right half of his face before the opening credits end. This story is not dealt with in the film, but one of the main characters finds a dead deer.
The next scene shows Trip, one of the protagonists, with the dealer Radford. Trip steals all of his pills and then meets up with his friends Cookie, Nelson, the blind Jack and Gretchen, the driver. The five friends are on their way to a rave party in the middle of the desert called Area52. When Trip claims he is carrying ecstasy, he is told to get out of the car. But since he can not reach anyone from the dead zone who can pick him up, he is allowed to get back on. They drive back to the diner where they were recently. On the way they see an overturned truck lying next to the road. They wonder about it, but do not stop to offer help if necessary.
Back at the diner, Trip gets out. The others want to drive on, but the car doesn't start anymore. They seek help in the diner. The guest room seems to have been vacated a few minutes ago. Cell phones, the telephone network, radio and television do not work for unknown reasons; only electricity is available. After lengthening the car antenna with metal rods, the students hear of an accident, which is why the streets around them are closed. They decide to spend the night in the abandoned motel .
That same night, Trip tries to find gasoline somewhere in the area so that she can fill up her truck and continue driving. He sets off on his skateboard and finds a car he wants to tap into, but is chased away by a man who suddenly appears. Full of panic, Trip makes his way with his skateboard to meet the others in the motel. On the way, he notices the lights coming on behind him, whereupon he rushes into the embankment to hide. A trailer with an elderly man named Henry approaches and stops right next to him. Henry yells at Trip to come out of the embankment, whereupon he offers Trip to take him to his friends. When asked why Henry was still out so late, he replied that he was looking for his wife because she had been missing since that morning.
After they both arrived at the motel, Henry goes to sleep in his motor home. A blond boy (Nelson) and one of the girls (Cookie) find a room to be alone. Gretchen and Jack decide to spend the night outside in the tent. Cookie leaves Nelson at night to go to the dry toilet outside . Suddenly an extreme stench rises from the toilet (characterized by a gaseous flicker), and despite strong resistance, Cookie is dragged down into the dry toilet and dies.
Meanwhile, Trip tries to receive the network on his cell phone on the roof of the motel to call for help. The whole film shows this mysterious man who was also at the car that wanted to tap into the trip. So also on the roof. Trip suddenly gets full reception and hears a voice saying, “There's an accident here.” A man appears behind him with huge scissors. Then the scene is interrupted.
Nelson, after a while worried about Cookie, goes looking for her, but to no avail. Back in the room he suddenly notices a hand under the bed with a kind of wood gouge . The stench is spreading again for some inexplicable reason. Nelson throws a shoe off the bed on the floor, whereupon it is immediately torn to pieces. He then wraps himself in a blanket and jumps out of the window. However, his carotid artery is completely slit open by a piece of glass . Nelson is bleeding to death.
Over time, Gretchen and the blind Jack start to worry because nobody can be heard or present. When they find Trip, who has since lost an arm, they too are scared. As if out of nowhere, the mysterious "killer" appears, who is supposed to represent no one less than death in person, the Grim Reaper . Death then takes Trip - Gretchen and Jack can escape in the meantime. They hide on the roof of the trailer and try to survive the night. Death always starts new attacks, which Gretchen fends off with a revolver . Jack then says: "If you want to live, you mustn't be afraid of death." At this point, however, Gretchen doesn't know what he means by that.
When the Grim Reaper starts another attack, and Jack injures the back of the head with a metal spike, the latter rips the mask (a gas mask ) from his face, whereupon a rotten face emerges. Gretchen fends off the attack with the revolver again, brings Jack into the car and takes flight. As it is getting light, Gretchen suspects that this night of horror is behind her. But death is not so easily left behind. He proves this by suddenly appearing on the roof of the truck while driving at full speed to kill Gretchen. Then Jack says again "If you want to live, you mustn't be afraid of death", whereupon Gretchen turns the steering wheel and the car starts to roll over many times. During the entire credits of the boy Trip, the boy receives strange calls on his cell phone in which a man says things that are pointless for him (e.g. "An accident has happened here").
At the end of the film, the true story of the students is revealed. Trip, Nelson and Cookie had died in an accident when the driver of the trailer (i.e. Henry) had a heart attack and raced into their vehicle without braking when they dropped Trip. Gretchen and Jack and Henry's wife survived the accident. The man who kept popping up and telling mysterious stories was actually the first driver to discover the scene of the accident.
In the final scene, Gretchen and Jack talk about not remembering the accident.
Reviews
www.gruselseite.com calls the film "a mixture of Wrong Turn and Dead End", which no fan of the genre should miss.
The magazine TV Spielfilm 6/2008 wrote that the film was a "nasty little tear with its own ideas". His characters are "clichéd" and there are "intelligent twists".
backgrounds
The film was shot in Los Angeles . Its world premiere took place on March 13, 2005 at the South by Southwest Film Festival , which was followed by the Tribeca Film Festival and several other film festivals. The film grossed around £ 234,000 in UK cinemas .
In 2008, the sequel followed with the title No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker .
Web links
- Reeker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Reeker at rotten tomatoes (English)