A Rundown of the 13 Best Horror Movies I've Seen in the Past Year
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FORGETTING THE GIRL
(March 2012)
“Nicole. She’s the one
girl I keep trying to remember. But I… I think she’s the problem. I think she’s
the reason I am the way I am, right?
Christopher
Denham (from Sound of My Voice and ¡Qué horror! 2013 title The Bay) is photographer Kevin Wolfe, a man desperate for some sort
of genuine human connection with the opposite sex, but who may very well be his
own worst enemy, as a traumatic past could prove to be the reason for his
constant failure at relationships.
With
Denham also acting as co-producer, Forgetting
the Girl is director Nate Taylor’s impressive feature debut. Working from a
screenplay by Peter Moore Smith, Taylor gives us a well-crafted exercise in
measured suspense, as Kevin goes about his life, and we begin to see just how
dysfunctional it actually is.
Forgetting the Girl is an exceedingly
commendable freshman feature effort from Taylor that is about, among other
things, memory (and the lengths we go to eradicate the possible pain they may
contain) and the madnesses we enable within each other.
Parting
Shot 1: Props for the use of VNV Nation’s haunting “Illusion” over the end
credits roll.
Parting
Shot 2: A review of The Bay lurks in
the Archive.
(Forgetting the Girl OS courtesy of
impawards.com.)
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