A symbol of Nathan’s basic unfitness as a farmer, the woolly creatures become a running gag. He grows tomatoes in the garden and back in the barn he’s busy raising - wait for it - alpacas, which even his kids think is ridiculous. Blithely unaware of this, Nathan and his wife Theresa ( Joely Richardson, matching his hippie-turned-houseowner look) have renovated his father’s old farmhouse with modern taste and comfort. Paterfamilias Nathan Gardner (Cage) has just moved his brood to the Massachusetts sticks, in fact to Arkham, the dark city often featured in Lovecraft stories.
release just as the film bowed in TIFF’s Midnight Madness tank.
RLJE Films, who did quite well with Cage’s bloody revenge tale Mandy, confirmed U.S. Hitting the main plot points with well-designed SFX and some impressive night photography, Stanley’s film manages to be frightening indeed, even with star Nicolas Cage’s semi-farcical leavening adding some nutty laughs.
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