Been meaning to get around to this bad boy for a while now, proper 80’s vibe is making me feel like I’m cheating by not watching it on VHS. To say “They don’t make ’em like this anymore” would be wrong as in the last 18 months we’ve had “Blue Ruin”, “The Guest” and now Jim Mickle has been supping at the 80’s “Kool-Aid” with this little diamond in the rough.

Michael C. Hall’s character awakes to find someone in the process of a spot of home invasion and promptly guns him down. The unarmed man turns out to be the long lost son of a very angry and very handy ex-con (Sam Shepard). To go into any more detail would rob this revenge drama of many of the delights it has to offer.

A fond “Welcome back” to one Don Johnson isn’t pushing the boat out but it’s Jim Mickle’s baby, here again after “Stake Land” and “We Are What We Are” showing that although his hand for quality bloodshed still holds steady, his ability to ratchet up the tension while juggling bursts of dungeon dark humour make him one to keep an eye on for the future as well as the 80’s.

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