Co-director/co-writer/actor Michael J. Ahern, co-director/co-writer/actor Brandon Perras-Sanchez and co-director/cinematographer/editor Ryan Miller also made Death Drop Gorgeous, a movie I loved, and they didn't slow down here, opening the film with a man slicing open his own stomach and pulled out his intestines. You know, start strong.
Caleb (Perras-Sanchez) and Adrian (Ahern) are on holiday in Provincetown, Massachusetts - the setting for Tough Guys Don't Dance - in the hopes of finding the magic that's been lost in their love. The truth is that Caleb had a nightmare about his ex Isaac (Tradd Sanderson) and wants to find him in a town where everyone works hard to be a stranger. Well, except for Eric (Matthew Pidge), who ends up hooking up with both, causing a break-up. That's when Caleb decides to find out the truth for himself. You know what I say: the truth is overrated.
Paced like a 70s slow burn horror film - and I'm not saying that like a cliche, this actually does it - this explores the kind of tourist town that you could never belong to as an outsider. And yet people want to be part of it, to be in a scene and being part of it costs them so much more than may be prepared to pay.
If you loved Death Drop Gorgeous, this is seriously a complete and total tonal shift, but the same crew and a lot of the cast shows up. What this also has going for it are some of the goriest practical effects I've seen in some time. They list their budget at just $20,000 on IMDB and - yes, I know, I know, never believe IMDB - but if so, wow.
I hereby nominate Provincetown, by virtue of this great film, as one of those coastal towns that are just a few miles from each other, even if this comes from another part of the country and decades removed from The Fog, Dead and Buried, Messiah of Evil and Night Tide.
Caleb (Perras-Sanchez) and Adrian (Ahern) are on holiday in Provincetown, Massachusetts - the setting for Tough Guys Don't Dance - in the hopes of finding the magic that's been lost in their love. The truth is that Caleb had a nightmare about his ex Isaac (Tradd Sanderson) and wants to find him in a town where everyone works hard to be a stranger. Well, except for Eric (Matthew Pidge), who ends up hooking up with both, causing a break-up. That's when Caleb decides to find out the truth for himself. You know what I say: the truth is overrated.
Paced like a 70s slow burn horror film - and I'm not saying that like a cliche, this actually does it - this explores the kind of tourist town that you could never belong to as an outsider. And yet people want to be part of it, to be in a scene and being part of it costs them so much more than may be prepared to pay.
If you loved Death Drop Gorgeous, this is seriously a complete and total tonal shift, but the same crew and a lot of the cast shows up. What this also has going for it are some of the goriest practical effects I've seen in some time. They list their budget at just $20,000 on IMDB and - yes, I know, I know, never believe IMDB - but if so, wow.
I hereby nominate Provincetown, by virtue of this great film, as one of those coastal towns that are just a few miles from each other, even if this comes from another part of the country and decades removed from The Fog, Dead and Buried, Messiah of Evil and Night Tide.