The first of an independent film series sponsored by the Shooting Gallery in conjunction with Loews Cinema. A CB radio opens a channel for evil in John Dahl's Joy Ride . When two lovers meet in Serendipity , it's a rather unfortunate accident. Jerry Meander Grateful Dawg isn't quite alive enough to be Dead. This Vampire should prove D -lightful for fans of dark fantasy.
Further investigation proves fairly pleasing and surprising.
Carefully meandering its way around the cynical cinematic sidewalk most commonly trod through American suburbia, Mendelsohn's script is rife with unbalanced characters subtly exchanging their own power lines, as well as metering one another's abundant verbal gas. Nobody is in their right minds in the little town of Babylon, but, then again, nobody is hastening off the deep end, either. No guns, no drugs, no suicides here, just a long day's meditation upon incomplete feelings, unfinished thoughts, and the tiny details of life in between. I don't know any other way to describe it. It's the second day of the new school year, during which a phenomenally long eclipse is due to drape the town in darkness, and much emotional re-evaluation is afoot.