Movie review: Hawthorne Road
You think you’ve seen this movie before: a group of friends head out for a weekend of good times (including requisite drinking, drugs, and sex) and bad things start happening. But with Hawthorne Road, the difference is that the bad things have already started happening—the characters bring them with them, and then over the course of the movie, the bad things get much, much worse. Hawthorne Road is as much an interpersonal drama as it is a horror film, and writer/director/producer Antone Anania even mixes in some mystery.
The couples embark on a weekend retreat to a vacation home at the end of Hawthorne Road. There is nothing remarkable about the house—it’s not near a cemetery, the shutters don’t bang in the wind, and there are no bats roosting anywhere on its grounds—but the tension is definitely there.
From early in the film…
Read the rest of the review at TheHorrorZine.com.
August 4, 2011 at 11:46 am
I always appreciate a story that makes you feel or understand something without saying “this is what I want you to feel or understand”. And I appreciate a story that gets to me under the radar and I’m still thinking about it three days later. Creepy isn’t always easy to accomplish and the creepiest things usually get to us without our knowledge or consent. A well-written review of a creepy movie.