ROULETTE
AN EX-SOLDIER CAPTURES THE MAN WHO TOOK HIS WIFE FROM HIM.
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MUSE
A struggling artist finds himself chasing the subject of his latest work when she steals the painting.
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THE FLUSHER
the past catches up with two bathroom attendants at an upscale nightclub.
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Claudette
At her father’s instruction, Claudette lures unsuspecting travelers to a mysterious creature kept locked in a barn. When the young girl discovers the creature’s secret, she’s faced with a terrifying decision.
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ABOUT THE ROUGH CUSTOMER FILMS
One of our favorite phrases is from a description for a film festival prize given to that filmmaker “whose work best communicates and encourages human values”. The context of the phrasing is obvious: to arrive naturally at the ending that uplifts, conclude it positively, give us hope, show us the road back from all these horrible, horrible places in ourselves. But humans have avaricious values too, values frequently more audacious than hope. They’re not easily surmounted by grace.
As a society we’ve always preferred to get the bad news about ourselves through the pulps. we think of these films as pulp expressions of neo-noir crime and horror, mostly, inspired by the likes of Cornell Woolrich, Richard Matheson, Garth Ennis and Irvine Welsh. The characters in these stories are engaged in survival. More often than not they’re struggling to survive themselves as well as take control of their environments, and not all of them succeed.