Ivan Kavanagh & cast will attend the screening.
Pete (O’Donnell, winner of best male performance at 2010’s JDIFF for The Fading Light) has seen better days. Dumped by his girlfriend after proposing, and given twenty days to turn around his sales numbers, what he doesn’t need is a strange call at the door, but what he really doesn’t need is Dave (Michael Parle) dragging him through a hell David Lynch would take notice of.
From his family home and uncomfortable truths, to Dave’s basement and torturing the eponymous Tin Can Man, to Dave’s terrifying mother and sisters, there is no respite for Pete from this cavalcade of horrors, and thanks to Colin Downey’s ever present camera, we see every etch of pain, confusion and utter terror on Pete’s face. Impressive as O’Donnell is as Pete, the real star here is the utterly unhinged Michael Parle, Dave’s charisma and menace perfectly realised in every grimace, chuckle and threat.
Entirely in black and white, with much of the light coming from the torches Pete and Dave carry, Ivan Kavanagh’s new cut of his cult horror tears through its runtime (and the viewer’s nerves) while perfectly maintaining a taut sense of dread; eerie, expressionist and entirely without mercy. - Rory Bonass, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival
