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With: James Zimbardi, Dee Wallace, Michael Paré, Angie Teodora Dick, Skyler Caleb, Niesha Renee Guilbot, Angela Cole, Michael DeVorzon, Emily Killian, Angelina Karo, Dig Wayne, Woodrow Wilson Hancock III, Ethan Fletcher Daly, Cynthia Lucero, Aidan Rhys, Fabio Lo Fria, Musa Kazmi
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Written by: Skyler Caleb, Anthony C. Ferrante, Woodrow Wilson Hancock III, James Zimbardi
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Directed by: Anthony C. Ferrante
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MPAA Rating: NR
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Running Time: 103
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Date: 09/30/2022
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Grief Case
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
It's perhaps rather surprising that the director of the campy Sharknado movies, Anthony C. Ferrante, would take on a serious psychological horror tale about loss, but here it is. Nix begins in the past, when a family of five is picnicking, and one youngster documents the day on a chunky, old-fashioned video camera. The young daughter, Tessa (Angelina Karo), disappears, presumably drowned in the nearby lake. In the present day, the father is gone, the mother, Donna (Dee Wallace), is in a near-comatose state, staring at the TV all day. Greasy-haired son Lucas (Skyler Caleb) looks like he never leaves the basement (some goopy stuff oozes from the walls down there), and only Lucas's brother Jack (James Zimbardi) seems to have been able to lead a normal life, with a job and a girlfriend, Liz (Angie Teodora Dick). Jack must also look after Lucas's young daughter Zoey (Niesha Renee Guilbot), given that neither Lucas, nor his drug-user ex-wife can do it. Things come to a head at the family's annual celebration of Tessa's eighth birthday, and Jack must look back into the secrets of the past in order to protect Zoey from what may or may not be an actual monster. Nix begins promisingly, and it's an honest portrait of grief, but as it goes, its life-force simply flags, as it seems to go through the motions. It contains a few striking moments, even as it drags toward the end, but it's an overall disappointment.
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