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Midnight in the Switchgrass: Randall Emmett on His Directorial Debut
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Based on a true story, the film
Midnight in the Switchgrass chronicles the serial abductions and murders of young women and the FBI agents that are trying to stop them. The directorial debut of Randall Emmett, the film stars Bruce Willis, Megan Fox, Emile Hirsch, Lukas Haas, and Caitlin Carmichael. It’s out in theaters and on demand on Friday, July 23, and releases on Blu-ray and DVD on July 27.
“While in Florida on another case, FBI agents Helter (Willis) and Lombardo (Fox) cross paths with state cop Crawford (Hirsch), who’s investigating a string of female murders that appear to be related,” says the official synopsis. “Lombardo and Crawford team up for an undercover sting, but it goes horribly wrong, plunging Lombardo into grave danger and pitting Crawford against a serial killer in a twisted game of cat and mouse.”
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Currently Reading Midnight in the Switchgrass Review: Megan Fox and Lukas Haas in a Serial-Killer Film That s Old-School Grindhouse
It s watchable trash, but more evidence that the serial-killer thriller has nothing left to discover.
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Director: Randall Emmett
With: Emile Hirsch, Megan Fox, Bruce Willis, Lukas Haas, Caitlin Carmichael, Olive Elise Abercrombie, Jason Trawick, Lydia Hill, Welker White.
The serial-killer thriller is a genre that, by now, has used up all its natural resources. It feels like there’s nothing left to discover in it which is why last year’s “The Little Things,” for all its star power and ostensible ambition, seemed to be poking around under rocks we’d all looked under before. Even so, it’s been a while since we’ve had a serial-killer thriller that’s as flagrant a piece of old-school grindhouse sleaze as “Midnight in the Switchgrass.”