Starring Ashley Greene, Shawn Ashmore, and Jason Liles. This provides an interesting paradox: Having finished the film, most details have oozed out of my brain like a slug confronted with salt, but during viewing I would swear that it was never going to end. It’s a mental liminal space, familiar but fleeting, and deeply unpleasant throughout. This movie has a certain “made for TV” quality about it, that thin veneer of expensive sets trying to mask discount-bin writing that always leaves a vaguely oily residue on the brain after viewing. Discussion with Donovan Webster, Lionel Gelber Prize winning author of Aftermath and Bobby Muller. For some reason, these scenes are back-to-back, which I suppose that makes them easier to skip. To go with the boring adultery plotline, we also have two sex scenes which feature partial or implied nudity. There’s also no small amount of profanity and some fairly gory imagery, although not a lot of on-screen violence. They move in, and strange things start to happen. Kevin works as a crime scene cleaner, and ends up brokering a deal on a house he cleans - where a husband fatally shot his wife, then himself. First, your kids aren’t going to be interested in the constant marital tension/adultery hand-wringing, and second, neither will you. Broken couple Kevin and Natalie need a new direction for their crumbling marriage. The film, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Scoot McNairy, Maggie Grace, and Martin Donovan, was released on April 7, 2017, by Lionsgate Premiere. From award-winning author and screenwriter Rhidian Brook comes a searing novel, set in a Germany ravaged by World War II. It doesn’t help that they’ve cut several other corners, including a shot that was noticeably slowed in post-production and a handful of scenes with very obvious dialogue over-dubbing.Īs far as family audiences are concerned, this is a real loser in a lot of categories. Aftermath is a 2017 American drama thriller film directed by Elliott Lester and written by Javier Gulln. Given the current price of lumber, the filmmakers probably would have improved their profit margin by sawing their dialogue into boards and selling it as a wood substitute. The dialogue oscillates wildly between tolerable and outright awful. The event touched off a mass migration of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Poland and other. It’s turgid and overwrought and I thoroughly disliked every minute of it. Forty-two Jews were massacred and about 50 more were wounded. This is a poorly written high school melodrama in haunted house drag. I love the spooky atmosphere, the slowly building tension, the unpleasant sounds in the dark…all of it. Now, I’m a big fan of haunted house movies. The Aftermath is a 2019 drama film directed by James Kent and written by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Rhidian Brook. But when he talks Natalie into it, they find that the house may have more than a bad history – it has a dangerous future. Better yet, he knows he can get it cheap, since he recently cleaned up a murder-suicide there. Luckily, in Kevin’s work as a crime-scene cleaner, he’s found a house he thinks will be perfect. Their counselor has recommended a change of scenery, but house prices aren’t cheap. Rounding out the cast is Sharif Atkins ( ER), Britt Baron (Netflix’s GLOW), Diana Hopper (Amazon’s Goliath), Ross McCall (White Collar), Susan Walters ( The Vampire Diaries) and Travis Coles ( David Makes Man).Kevin (Shawn Ashmore) and Natalie Dadich (Ashley Greene) have been struggling since an affair which nearly destroyed their marriage. He’s best known for his X-Men days but perhaps more recently for his starring role in Netflix’s Locke & Key series. The freaky film dropped on Netflix on August 5, 2021. Shawn Ashmore stars alongside Green as Kevin Dadich. THE newest Netflix thriller Aftermath follows a creepy haunted house that just might be based on a true story. As California communities continued to grapple with the aftermath of storms last week that displaced thousands, destroyed homes and infrastructure, thousands more were. She’s perhaps best known for her role in the Twilight saga. However, soon after moving in, the couple falls prey to strange and disturbing occurrences, and eventually learn that the house has a more troubling history than either of them anticipated.”Īftermath is directed by veteran Hollywood producer and director Peter Winther who has been involved with projects such as The Patriot (2000), Independence Day (1996), and more recently, The Last Full Measure (2019).Īshley Greene appears in the movie as Natalie Dadich. Aftermath by Dottie Schley Produced by the Im Glad You Stayed Project Filmed March 2022. In a final attempt to start fresh as a couple they take the deal. “The thriller centers on a young couple (Green and Ashmore) struggling to stay together, when they are offered an amazing deal on a home with a questionable past that would normally be beyond their means.
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