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| Review by Tony Pacitti |
How filmmaker Rick Leprade shakes that formula up is by introducing a supernatural element that is more than just a clever genre mash-up.
Detective Burke (Rich Tretheway) is a disgraced Boston cop “reassigned” to a tiny Rhode Island town where he spends his days coping with “hot leads” on missing kayaks by downing Pepto and whiskey. He’s a down on his luck cop in the classic noir mold--disheveled, drunk and prone to voice overs.
The town itself is a little disheveled and drunk, a summer hot spot deep into its off season slump, the kind of place with little to do besides getting a drink at the local bar and waiting out the winter.
This all gets turned inside out when femme fatale Dawn (Gillian Williams) shows up at Burke’s door in the middle of the night after having been raped and left for dead.
Her survival is the key to linking a string of not-so unrelated deaths and together the two of them work towards finding the town’s poetry obsessed killer.
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