By MICHAEL GINGOLD
Currently on its festival tour, the movie has already racked up a number of awards.
THE RECKONING is the first feature film directed by Alex Breaux, whose many acting credits include the Frankensteinian creation Adam in Larry Fessenden’s DEPRAVED (a part he’ll soon reprise in Fessenden’s “monsterverse” film). It was written by Michael Weaver, who also stars alongside Kristin Griffith, Quincy Dunn-Baker, Julie Dray, Paul Bandey and Lemmy Constantine. The synopsis: “After their father’s death, long-kept secrets and a peculiar link to France lead two estranged brothers and their disabled mother to an unimaginable outcome. Inspired by Guy de Maupassant’s PIERRE ET JEAN (1888), THE RECKONING is a visceral drama cloaked in a knife-edge psychological thriller. An inversion of the prodigal-son parable, the film’s disturbing intensity is unrelenting, the focus constantly shifting, layering, unraveling like its main character. Fast descending to a mayhem where objective truth is indiscernible, and full immersion to an open eyed nightmare involuntary.”
THE RECKONING has already won Best Drama Film and Best Supporting Actress at the IFS Film Festival, Best Feature Film and Best Cinematography at the Crimson Screen Horror Film Fest and Best Cinematography and Best Editing at the Horrorhound Film Festival. It next plays the Pittsburgh Independent Film Festival this Sunday, June 22 at 11:30 a.m., and will also screen at the Richmond International FIlm Festival, which takes place September 23-28.
