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Oct. 25th, 2009 01:50 pm
BHM Reviews "Hurt (2008)"
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Written by The Horror Czar
August 11, 2009
Hurt has a complex story that holds itself together through strong acting, excellent writing and suspenseful terror.
The Coltrane family has had a rough time. When father and husband Robert is killed suddenly in an automobile accident leaving no assets behind, Helen (Melora Walters, Magnolia, Boogie Nights) is forced to abandon her plush lifestyle, pack up the kids and move in with her deceased husband’s brother Darryl (William Mapother, The Grudge). Oh, and Darryl lives in an uber-sexy junk yard in the middle of dusty nowhere.
The artist son Conrad (Jackson Rathbone, Twilight) takes the new digs in stride, finding many old auto scraps to incorporate into his metal art monstrosities, but daughter Lenore (Johanna Braddy, The Grudge 3, Penny Dreadful) is a bit put out by the dirty surroundings – this might get in the way of her aspirations for student body president at her old school, after all.
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