The Curse of Buckout Road is 'a decent if overly busy scare-fest' via nparts
In the real world, Westchester County, N.Y., is home to about a million people. In this movie, it’s “home to every kind of urban legend imaginable,” although I think it’s overselling that point; at no time during The Curse of Buckout Road did I notice any sewer-alligators, pet Chihuahuas that were really rats, or those gangs that kill you if you flash your high beams at them.
Regardless, this first feature from North Bay actor-turned-writer/director Matthew Currie Holmes is a decent if overly busy scare-fest. It opens with a university teacher committing suicide, and her traumatized student Cleo seeking psychiatric help from Dr. Powell , whose grandson Aaron has just returned home.
The film also casts a wide net of frights – there’s a scary lady in white, a 40-year-old legend about carnivore albino twins , centuries-old witch burnings, and a slightly more recent murder by a slave-owner, not to mention the old standbys like creaky doors and faces that appear in bathroom mirrors.
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