He’s a meth cooker, and like everybody else in this corner of Kentucky, he’s related to Sawyer’s tormentors. It’s the blacking out that pays-off, though, as a mysterious stranger ( Jay Paulson) comes along.īut this guy living in the rotting-out mobile home is no salvation. Being tough, she waits a day or so before bursting into tears. She eludes capture, but her wound turns bad and the weather isn’t helping. She fights like a Fury, bloodies them both and even though she gets stabbed in the leg, makes her escape.īut then she’s into the woods with just the clothes on her back, her wits and some good old fashioned screenwriting “coincidences” to save her on this long Thanksgiving weekend.
Hill is brother Buck) underestimate the college girl. He gets her map out of her hands, and he’s sidling over to cut her off from her car door when she trots out her college campus #MeToo defense - “You’re starting to make me feel uncomfortable.” The boys ( Daniel R. “These woods, they can be a crazy place,” offers the smarter brother ( Micah Hauptman, oozing bad intentions). Sawyer is lost, and the good ol’boys who offer “assistance” are a reminder that there’s no such thing as “good” ol’boys in the movies. and perhaps too confident in her ancient Jeep Grand Cherokee and her phone’s GPS.īecause yelling at the phone in the middle of Appalachia never helps. She’s fit, she’s confident of this job interview she has in D.C. Hermione Corfield of “Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation” is Sawyer Scott, a Kentucky college coed we meet as she runs laps. And with slack pacing come sloppy lapses in logic, delaying the inevitable in ways that aren’t helpful. It’s reasonably well thought-out and cast, but it’s slow. “Rust Creek” is a classic 85 minute thriller in a 105 minute wrapper, a visceral enough hillbilly meth cooks take a hostage tale whose many sins might be corrected by pacing.
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