Lowlife

Name: Lowlife
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror, Comedy, Crime
Released: April 6, 2018
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Clayton Cardenas, Jearnest Corchado, Jon Oswald, Jose Rosete, Mark Burnham

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IFC Midnight | Release Date: April 6, 2018 | NR

Starring: Clayton Cardenas, Jearnest Corchado, Jon Oswald, Jose Rosete, Mark Burnham, Nicki Micheaux, Olivia Benavides, Ricardo Adam Zarate, Santana Dempsey, Shaye Ogbonna

Summary: What happens when you throw together a fallen Mexican wrestler with serious rage issues, a just-out-of-prison ex-con with a regrettable face tattoo, and a recovering junkie motel owner in search of a kidney? That’s the premise of the berserk, blood-spattered, and wickedly entertaining feature debut from Ryan Prows. Set amidst the seedyWhat happens when you throw together a fallen Mexican wrestler with serious rage issues, a just-out-of-prison ex-con with a regrettable face tattoo, and a recovering junkie motel owner in search of a kidney? That’s the premise of the berserk, blood-spattered, and wickedly entertaining feature debut from Ryan Prows. Set amidst the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles, Lowlife zigzags back and forth in time as it charts how fate—and a ruthless crime boss—connects three down-and-out reprobates mixed up in an organ harvesting scheme that goes from bad to worse to off-the-rails insane. Careening from savagely funny to just plain savage to unexpectedly heartfelt, this audacious thriller serves up nonstop adrenaline alongside hard-hitting commentary about the state of contemporary America. [IFC Midnight]… Expand

Director: Ryan Prows

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Horror, Comedy, Crime

Rating: NR

Runtime: 96 min

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The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Its characters are unforgettably batty yet impressively noble...sympathetic yet fierce.... And their actions consistently achieve dramatic merit despite always culminating with a joke. Read full review

Matt Donato

Lowlife is a dirt-nasty nonlinear debut for Ryan Prows, sewn together from vengeful, spite-driven tales of urban survival. Read full review

John DeFore

Bracing and well paced, it may occasionally stretch too far for an attention-getting quirk, but Lowlife feels fresher than it has any right to be, given its ingredients. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Apr 5, 2018

Prows and company don’t simply play the often outrageous (and occasionally grisly) content for tasteless sensationalism, comic or otherwise. They treat it with an interesting, empathic yet slightly detached tone somewhere between the respectful and the droll. Read full review

IndieWire Jamie Righetti

A messy but ultimately interesting look a a group of downtrodden individuals who get mixed up in an organ harvesting scheme. Read full review

Richard Whittaker

Apr 18, 2018

Lowlife is also far more bloodstained than Tarantino’s normal fare. Grisly isn’t the word: The entire effects and makeup team work overtime for some of the most splattertastic effects in any non-horror film since the bone-shattering, skull-squishing glories of "Brawl on Cell Block 99." Read full review

Noel Murray

Apr 5, 2018

The tangled plot is ultimately too simple, and the film's sociopolitical commentary too paltry. But Lowlife does have a refreshingly varied and up-to-date cast of characters. With seedy B-movies, just a little bit of ambition elevates the generic. Read full review

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PurpleCrayon4U

Dec 18, 2019

One of the best films you will see this year,
or whatever year you see Lowlife.
The script, the dialogue, the writing -Outstanding The production, the direction -Fantastic The performances -Perfectomundo The mixture of cultures combined to deliver a unique story is so fresh when compared toOne of the best films you will see this year,
or whatever year you see Lowlife.
The script, the dialogue, the writing
-Outstanding
The production, the direction
-Fantastic
The performances
-Perfectomundo
The mixture of cultures combined to deliver
a unique story is so fresh when compared
to what is delivered in the last decade.
The team of Tim Cairo, Jake Gibson,
Shaye Ogbonna, Ryan Prows and
Maxwell Michael Towson need lots of
attention as their future works will only be so much better.… Expand

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sachineldho

Apr 12, 2019

This movie is like Pulp Fiction, the editing, storyline and all, but with Mexicans. It is good overall, but compared to the Tarantino magic created in 1994, this movie is nothing.

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Deanomite

Jan 22, 2020

good script, mixes gritty street crime and horror, characters and music well done. A little too choppy.

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JLuis_001

Sep 15, 2018

Better than I expected, but I think the comparisons with Tarantino's films puts an unnecessary burden of high expectations in a film that is far from offering those results.

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