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The Wanderer (2006)

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Trouble. Always seems to find you on a dark and lonely road. And it has been a long drive for Gina and Lucy as they return home from the funeral of Sarah, Gina's cousin. Reminiscing about Sarah, the two are still shell-shocked over Sarah's bizarre suicide. Suddenly, a hitchhiker dressed in a white gown appears in front of their speeding vehicle. Would you mind giving me a lift? Gina and Lucy go against their better judgment and give the woman a ride. This woman, however, begins asking very odd questions of the two, raising their fears that something is not quite right about her. When the car breaks down, Lucy and Gina soon discover that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. --IMDb
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Review by Chad
Added: August 9, 2006
When a film draws comparisons to The Twilight Zone on the DVD packaging, I tend to worry. You see, Zone is one of my favorite television shows of all time, and I've found that movies or other television shows that try to compare themselves to it (even if it's just by using a quote from someone else) usually fall flat. Tonight's short film doesn't exactly fall flat, but I don't think that Rod Sterling would have been introducing it to a television audience either.

Now then, the film runs for a grand total of eighteen minutes, and since I don't particularly want to spoil the shocking revelations and the bizarre ending, this synopsis is going to be extremely short. Basically, the film revolves around Gina (Taya Asimos) and Lucy (Liz DiPrinzio), a pair of young ladies who are heading home from the funeral of Gina's cousin and Lucy's best friend Sarah (Erika Smith). Sarah, as it turns out, committed suicide; at least, that's what the police said, but Gina has her doubts about what really happened. It's the middle of the night and they're driving down a deserted road, when they almost run down a mysterious woman in a white gown who seems to appear from out of nowhere. They stop the car to see what's going on, and we then find out that this woman needs a ride to her house. Things get interesting when the two ladies discover that this hitchhiker may know more about Sarah's death than even they do...

Although my opening blurb about this film not measuring up to The Twilight Zone may have indicated otherwise, I did enjoy this movie and I was pleasantly surprised when the big twist was revealed. It definitely wasn't what I was expecting, and the way that the scenes leading up to the big revelation were shot was damned effective. Watch for the scene in which a house - probably a cozy suburban residence by day - is turned into something that looks to have come straight from a real-life haunted-house documentary thanks to some great camera shots. Indie film-making doesn't require a whole lot of money, but the better offerings do require some talent and imagination, and this film brings both to the table. I'm not even going to discuss the "holy shit" feeling that the scene in which the ladies "enter" the house brings about; it's not something that you'll see coming is all that I'm going to say about it.

The acting abilities of these three leading ladies was another surprise for yours truly. Normally, I avoid critiquing this aspect of low-budget films since, well, indie directors usually don't have access to a large pool of talent and have to make do with what they can get. I can accept that and I generally overlook that side of things, but here, the ladies actually did a great job with their roles. I have to admit that some segments of the journey to the house were a bit sketchy, but things pick up for the better once they get inside the house and get down to revealing the meat of the story. Erika Smith is the best of the trio, in my personal opinion, but the other two ladies more than hold their own.

You can purchase the film from the Poche Pictures site, and it's definitely worth a viewing for fans of supernatural thrillers as it manages to pack a lot of interesting material along with some genuine scares into its short eighteen-minute running time. 7/10.
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