When Owen is forced to reconnect with his only living relatives, confront the past he's been running from his whole adult life, he and his girlfriend, Isabel, learn that sometimes the ties that bind can cut off all circulation.
10 December 1941, Dublin, Ireland
16 July 1987, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
10 July 1976, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
31 October 1941, New York City, New York, USA
20 June 1977, Harris County, Texas, USA
15 June 1984, Bronx, New York, USA
30 July 1990, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 July 1981
9 March 1980, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
February 17, 2017
the hyperreal focus here is on domestic and psychological dysfunction, with an only eventually likeable protagonist unable to put conflict with his family's previous generation(s) behind him.
November 03, 2016
At least it's a good-looking orgy of adolescent nihilism, thanks to some clever stylistic touches from Bates and cinematographer Shane Daly. And if hating everyone is kind of your thing, you might get a kick out of it.
November 03, 2016
It's kind of like Meet the Parents crossed with Psycho and it's a dark, nasty piece of work in most of the ways it should be.
November 03, 2016
A failed American Guignol.
November 02, 2016
Bates plays with horror tropes, juggling black comedy and suspense in scenes that tease a gory release but ultimately only emphasize how much members of the creative class can underestimate their backward kin.
November 04, 2016
Trash Fire is a strange and unsettling film but it rarely feels like a shock-value exploitation piece.
November 03, 2016
Bates Jr. brings a satisfying level of disturbance to the effort, keeping the audience sufficiently unnerved even with unknown turns of plot, while sustaining its rather lucid take on a terrible relationship.
November 07, 2016
Trash Fire entertains with laughs and thrills, but it also leaves you with an unexpected weight on your chest.
February 12, 2017
Tonally vicious and nihilistic throughout
November 03, 2016
Another soggy batch of Southern Gothic horror-comedy from writer-director Richard Bates Jr. that spews out pitch black smoke with little combustible substance.
February 01, 2016
With two low-budget cult films among his credits, Richard Bates, Jr. shifts a bit closer to the mainstream with Trash Fire, a relatively reserved horror-comedy that delves into darkly dysfunctional family secrets.
