By MICHAEL GINGOLD
It’s a combination of paranoid thrills and dark comedy.
Firebook Entertainment’s EVERY HEAVY THING, the new film from writer/director Mickey Reece (whose previous genre credits include CLIMATE OF THE HUNTER and AGNES), has its world premiere tonight at 9:30 p.m. at Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival. Reece and lead actor Josh Fadem will host the screening; the movie will also show at Fantasia Wednesday, July 23 at 2:30 p.m. In addition to Fadem (2nd photo below), the film stars fright fave Barbara Crampton (pictured above and 1st photo below), James Urbaniak (3rd photo below), Tipper Newton, Vera Drew, John Ennis, Kaylene Snarsky, Ginger Gilmartin, Ben Hall, Mary Buss and Kaitlyn Shelby. Kassie Gann, Peter Kuplowsky and Andrew Appleyard produced, and John Moss, Juan Pablo Reinoso, David Bond, Beth Alonso, Blake Johnson and Ashleigh Snead were the executive producers.
The Fantasia synopsis: “Mickey Reece’s distinctively absurdist humor has long left its imprint on Fantasia audiences through cult favorites like COUNTRY GOLD, AGNES and CLIMATE OF THE HUNTER. With his latest feature, EVERY HEAVY THING, Reece returns with a pitch-black comedy set against the unsettling backdrop of a string of disappearances, with local women vanishing without a trace. The film follows Josh Fadem as Joe, an unassuming office worker at an online periodical who becomes entangled in a conspiracy after witnessing a murder. As a colleague begins to investigate, Joe struggles to conceal the truth, as his carefully constructed life falls apart. Reece crafts a love letter to Oklahoma once again, walking a fine line between thriller and comedy, amplifying the mood of paranoia in this offbeat take on the classic trope of the ordinary man pulled into extraordinary circumstances.”
