Tar

Cast View all

	Timothy Bottoms	Barry Greenwood
	Graham Greene	Homeless Man
	Aaron Wolf	Zach Greenwood
	Emily Peachey	Rose
	Max Perlich	Alfred
	Nicole Alexandra Shipley	Diana
	Tiffany Shepis	Marigold
	Stuart Stone	Sebastian
	Sandy Danto	Ben
	Michelle Bernard	Detective Finnegan
	Simon Carmody	Matchi Manitou
	Donovan Clark	Matchi Manitu
	Donald S. Edwards Jr.	The Creature
	Flynn Falcone	Construction Worker
	Dani Fernandez	Carmenia
	Mark Gessner	Detective Bullrich
	Liam Grace	Little Barry
	Ashley Iocco	Ashley Palm
	Cinta Laura Kiehl	Camilla Landry
	Spike Leffke	Stacy Ingram
	Bobby Ramos	Bobby the Construction Worker

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Director	Aaron Wolf
Writer	Timothy Nuttall, Aaron Wolf
Producer	Molly Giocomelli, Rob Giocomelli, Evan Kaizer, Andrew Kappel, Nathan Law, Ross Lukatsevich, Timothy Nuttall, Aaron Wolf, Dan Wolf
Musician	Conor Jones
Photography	Aashish Gandhi

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My quick rating - 4.5/10. I was really hoping this was going to be in the vein of the cult classic The Stuff from 1985. No luck. Anyway, this starts out with an amusing beginning. We have the elder wise man telling the tell of the La Brea tar pits. I'll leave why it is funny up to you when you see it (the no-spoiler rule). The story here is a monster that lives in the tar pits is released and goes on a killing spree. The whole movie had a very nostalgic feel to it in the narrative and how it plays out. The jokes are tongue-in-cheek for the most part, often way too obvious. But again, going for that old feel. Characters are fine for who they are supposed to be minus one really annoying dude. Surprisingly decent camerawork and the aesthetics needed for a larger budget film which means the makers know what they are doing. But in the end, it suffers from a mediocre story that leads to the worst possible ending they could have. Not the lack of story ending, the "we completely forgot how to do everything we demonstrated in the first 75 minutes of the movie" and finish up with a mess that is incomprehensible of what is going on. I can't tell if the editor was drunk and just put the clips into random order but it really distracted me from the rest of this. The monster looked pretty stupid (yes, I wanted the tar to be the oozing monster) and the death scenes were lackluster. Viewing is entirely up to you but if you can get past its faults, you may get some entertainment from it just don't expect a return viewing or a coherent ending.

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