INEXCHANGE

Growing up you always hear all of the horror stories of being a freshman, whether it be in high school of college. Either way it still sucks. You’re destined to get picked on and even worse humiliated in front of some serious hotties. In INEXCHANGE, the legend has been taken up a notch. This demented little tale, tells the story of Maury (Sean Blodgett), your token bookworm. Maury doesn’t bother anyone and keeps to himself, yet that doesn’t seem to be enough. Being the small-framed dude that he is, he’s a target for morons. Dishing out his share of whippings and humility to Maury; Jay (Todd Richard Lewis), his roommate seems to try and make amends for his antics and invites Maury to this big party him and his friends are having. At first Maury wants nothing to do with it, but then he starts to remember his “old “ life. The commonplace beatings, the complete helplessness he feels. He decides that life doesn’t have to be this way, it “can” be better, and so he caves and joins the party. Upon arrival, the gang gets Maury drunk and inebriated. It seems that Maury’s the toast of the party. They throw him outside, beat on him and of all things piss all over him. This doesn’t fly well with Lara (Tiffany Wilson), and has seen enough of this childish shit, so she helps him up and tends to him, thus introducing us to the relationship that could be. After a brief google eyed encounter, he heads home with his tail in between his legs. Maury’s walk home will change his life forever as he meets up with a mysterious character, promising retribution for the hell he’s been put through. Will this opportunity be an “in- exchange” for his pride?

I’ll have to say that I really enjoyed this film. It was clever and executes just the right amount of tension and fear needed to carry the viewer through to the end. The story was concrete as hell and plays out nicely at the hands of Zack Parker. He sort of brings this Rollin-esque feel to the screen from the blunt colors to sweet camera angles. And we must not forget the fear. Fear is a factor that is sometimes overlooked due to the film trying to be more gore or extreme. INEXCHANGE offers up that eerie Shining or Amityville feeling with Carrie-esque view from the male perspective. Which leads me to the acting set forth in this film. The cast really comes through for the most part but we must take special note of the main couple. They do an exceptional job of taking us into their journey of life. Blodgett performance adds the shy, timid little geek needed to pull this off..

Bottom line is sure INEXCHANGE has minimal faults with overbearing sound quality at points but nothing so bad it takes away from the flick, I must say this was a nice little outing. This definitely a flick I’ll be watching again on numerous occasions. It’s being planed to hit stores sometime this spring from brain damage Films. Now im anxious to see his newest endeavor Quench.

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