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company: Bantam Street
year: 2009
runtime: 93′
director: Larry Blamire
cast: Jim Beaver, Jennifer Blaire,
Larry Blamire, Brian Howe,
Dan Conroy, Robert Deveau,
Bruce French, Betty Garrett
writer: Larry Blamire
cinematography: Anthony J. Rickert-Epstein
music: Christopher Caliendo
Reviewed from a screener provided
by Shout! Factory, LLC.
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Dark and Stormy Night made its DVD premiere on the 17th of August courtesy of Shout! Factory, and can currently be ordered through Amazon.com and other online retailers.
Plot: A motley assortment of people converge on an old mansion to hear the reading of a will, only to be murdered one by one by an unseen assailant.
Ah, Larry Blamire strikes again. In the interest of full disclosure I’m no fan of the writer / director / actor, and my only other experience with his work (The Lost Skeleton Returns Again, released on DVD day and date with this) left me utterly underwhelmed and even a little pissed that I had expended the minimum of effort required to screen it. Dark and Stormy Night improves slightly upon that picture, if only because it never devolves into a protracted and clumsy back and forth over double negatives, but that’s faint praise indeed.
