SYNOPSICS
Craters of the Moon (2013) is a English movie. Jesse Millward has directed this movie. Breeda Wool,Cody Lightning,Matt Davenport,Lynette Millward are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2013. Craters of the Moon (2013) is considered one of the best Drama,Horror,Thriller movie in India and around the world.
Molly and her troubled husband Roger are on a cross-country road trip when they get into a scrape at a highway rest stop and decide to run. Disoriented by a blizzard in the back roads of the Idaho lava rock desert, the couple becomes snowbound. Their relationship strains under the pressures of starvation, hypothermia, and wolves. It is a slow-burning psychological thriller that builds to a horrifying climax in a small car at The Craters of The Moon National Park.
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A psychopath and his wife
SPOILER: This was a very weird movie, in part because it was either over-the-top wildly unrealistic with its depiction of the young couple, or disturbingly painfully 100% realistic with its depiction. Perhaps the unusualness of seeing an abusive relationship portrayed in a film or TV show with such non-physical, non-overt malice completely threw me off. Maybe it helps to identify with the wife Molly in these sorts of circumstances, but my own life experiences (perhaps thankfully) have not caused me to become involved in this sort of unhappy relationship. As well, given this is a 1 hour 18 minute movie, there's not enough time to build up the sort of normality of their relationship, and it comes across as rather brutally shocking at times. The film is about a young couple, Molly and Roger, who end up getting stranded out in the desert during a blizzard. This happens after our introduction to their relationship, in which Molly walks in on a minor drug deal occurring in a public bathroom and gets frightened out by the dealer. Roger confronts her over her odd demeanor afterwards, then gets up to go confront the dealer despite her protests. The dealer is snarky and a bit of a jerk, but nowhere near being in any way threatening or violent, yet Roger displays his very first psychopathic tendencies by inexplicably attacking the drug dealer, then getting his own ass beat down. The dealer, despite his brusque nature, is an adult and walks away without further harming Roger, only for Roger to jump up behind him and savagely maul him, possibly killing him. Later on, they get stuck in the desert, and Roger proceeds to berate her endlessly, blaming her for the car getting stuck, and repeatedly bullying her as they try to get out of the snow. These moments of discomfort and tension are briefly defused by minor moments of affection and playfulness between the two, which only makes the further abuse Roger heaps upon Molly more disturbing to watch. He never outright hits her or verbally abuses her, but instead does little things like refuse to turn on the car engine so they can run the heat so she can keep warm, leading to a point where he locks her out of the car and just stares at her emptily while she yells at him to let her in, only breaking his façade and opening the door when she threatens to smash the window in with a rock. Another thing he does is discover she has hidden away a pack of trail mix and was secretly eating it. He proceeds to take it from her and say he will keep it all for himself. Then, after having repeatedly refused to turn on the car for her to use the heat in order to save gas, he comes up with a half-baked idea to siphon gas out of the car and burn their excess clothes to make a signal fire to be seen from the sky. At this point, the abuse becomes physical, and there's almost a sense of relief that it comes out into the open in the form of physical violence, because it just feels so much more honest than the subtle bullying and constant berating that could have indeed caused her physical harm in the form of hypothermia. This escalates to a point where he flat-out says he will wait for her to starve to death, before eating her, and then walking however many miles it takes to get back to the main road or to a town or something. This sets her off and she leaves the car and proceeds to basically do just that. Thankfully for her, she finds a cabin with electricity, food, and water. Much like an actual battered wife, she returns for her abusive husband. This culminates into the plot described "chilling climax" which, after the subtle brutality we've gone through leading up to it, comes across as almost a pleasant relief. This was overall a very weird film in this regards. Billed as a survival-horror type film, it ends up playing out more like a disturbingly common scenario (an abusive relationship) placed in an unusual, though entirely plausible setting. It was very taut and well executed in that regard, but comes across as somewhat difficult to go through.
A lot of nothing
I've never wanted 2 people to die so much. I hated them equally. He's a dick and she's weak. There are so many scenes were literally nothing at all happens, you are literally listening to her whine or breathe heavily and him with a smug smile. Insanely boring movie
A Good Solid Well Made Film
This film has top notch acting and the story pulls you in immediately. The plot has a brisk pace and its easy to love/hate/sympathize with the characters. The camera work and direction does an excellent and strait forward job of presenting a married couple stranded in winter making unwise and selfish choices. This movie is pretty predictable and strait forward but I still enjoyed it and was interested to see how it would turn out. It was a good solid film across the board.
A bit slow, but stick with it 'til the end
So you think you've had bad boyfriends or girlfriends? Get a load of Roger, played by Cody Lightning. I'm assuming Mr. Lightning is a fine person in real life, but, man, can he play a jerk. After a confrontation with another baddie at a rest stop, Roger speeds into a snowstorm with his wife, Molly, played very well by Breeda Wool. Molly is quite pretty and apparently sensible, and you're wondering for quite a while how she got involved with this piece of work. Could be a case of battered spouse syndrome, who knows. So they drive into the snowstorm in the middle of the night and get their classic mid-60s Mustang stranded on a deserted road. (What a waste of a great car on a guy like Roger.) Naturally, Roger blames his wife. They're stranded for days, with Roger making Molly's life hell. The film is slow at times, with Roger heaping one indignity after another on Molly. But... stick this one out. The ending is worth it.
should have been a short movie
A husband and wife get stuck in their car in the middle of nowhere stupidly taking a back road during a blizzard. They oddly manage to have a never ending supply of cigarettes. Most of the movie is the wife dealing with her abusive husband in trying times with the film maker trying to capture the desperation and hopelessness of their self imposed situation. She is pretty annoying and he is a huge jerk. Both of them do ridiculous things that make you roll your eyes. The ending saves the movie to make it watchable. I still think it could have been half as long. Save the constant crying etc. we got the picture.