Cold Ones

  • Horror
1/1/2007
94

Every stranger has a secret

Every stranger has a secret in writer-director Garrett Clancy’s indie drama, also released as Dead Letters. Ten years after his first novel went down in flames, the hard knocks just won’t stop for K.C. Corcoran (C. Thomas Howell) - his girlfriend’s just thrown him out. K.C. hopes to get his life back on track by writing another book and heads to a remote mountain cabin to work on it … but the locals prove more hazardous than he could have guessed.

Budget:
$300,000

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      • Wuchak

        A sad-sack author in the sticks of SoCal

        A decade after his semi-successful book, a writer (C. Thomas Howell) heads to the backwoods northeast of Los Angeles to write a new book with an old typewriter, but the dysfunctional yokels prove to be a hinderance. Geoffrey Lewis, Duane Whitaker and Kim Darby are on hand.

        Lake of the Woods, aka Cold Ones (2007), is an indie that only cost $300,000 helmed by Garrett Clancy. Its an oddball backwater satire, which Im sure was loosely based on Garretts own experiences. For such a low budget, the actors rise to the challenge and the flicks relatively entertaining with droll humor revolving around the socially impaired characters or the writers series of unfortunate events, some of which are ...

        October 1, 2023

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