Rust creek6/17/2023 Police Are Useless: Sheriff O'Doyle's police work is remarkably ineffectual in his opening scenes.Hillbilly Horrors: The villains are corrupt and predatory hicks.However, it turns out that he's got her best interest at heart and becomes her ally against the other meth dealers. Heel–Face Turn: Lowell keeps Sawyer imprisoned at first, implying that he's going to abuse her.She ends up stranded in miles of wilderness. Don't Go in the Woods: Sawyer's first mistake was taking a detour down some rural roads through the woods.Dirty Cop: Sheriff O'Doyle is the local crime lord.And, of course, red is the color of blood. Sawyer helps Lowell dispose of red waste water, which he says would stain his whole yard red if he tossed it on the ground. Sawyer gets stranded at the eponymous Rust Creek, named after its red clay deposits. It's autumn, and the leaves in the forest are all red. She later sprints away from villains several times. Chekhov's Skill: Sawyer is introduced running on a track.The thermos of anhydrous ammonia becomes critical in the third act.The weeding fork that Sawyer steals from Lowell gets used in the final act.Catchphrase: Sheriff O'Doyle likes to put people in their place by pointing to himself and saying "Chief," and then pointing to the person he's talking to and saying, "Indian." This is how Sawyer recognizes him.It stars Hermione Corfield as a Kentucky college student who runs afoul of some Hillbilly Horrors. The settings are also used for another twist in the story, showing us how this side of an operation can be achieved.Rust Creek is a 2019 thriller directed by Jen McGowan. The Kentucky forest shows us how easy it can be to get lost and how the locals would use this against you while trying to hunt you down. The only issue would be that if you don’t know your American geography, you might not get the distance she is traveling. Rust Creek uses the settings perfectly because we get to see how the new era of long-distance driving relies on GPS, which isn’t always the most reliable, without having a mapped-out route as a backup. Micah Hauptman and Daniel R Hill easily make the sleazy locals work and have good chemistry together, while Jay Paulson makes us feel uneasy around him, as we are not sure what to think about his characters. The acting in Rust Creek is strong for the most part Hermione Corfield in the leading role gives us a strong leading lady performance showing the strength required when needed while being able to make herself look like an easy victim for the villainous figures. Looking through the story I do feel this is fresh because of how strong the story behind the villains is, but the lack of full backstory for Sawyer does leave a few questions out there. This is where the story starts to feel mixed, however, because while it is nice having the villains possess motives other than being local hick-like characters, this does take away from most of the survival elements of the film as Sawyer is sheltered and barely on the run anywhere near the level we would expect. Well, it starts with that, but it does take a twist on how this unfolds because she gets a helper to protect her from the impending threat, which does have a bigger picture. The story used in Rust Creek presents a concept we have seen many times: a young woman being hunted down by men in their local town, where they know how to track her and she must do what she can to survive. Escaping them, she runs for her life, only going deeper into the forest where another local, Lowell (Paulson), offers her shelter only not everything is what it seems for young Sawyer. Halfway through Kentucky, Sawyer gets lost in a forest, with two of the locals, Hollister (Hauptman) and Buck (Hill), trying to take advantage of her. Rust Creek follows successful college student Sawyer (Corfield) who is heading across America for a job interview in the field she has worked her whole life for.
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