Sun Choke

Name: Sun Choke
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Released: August 5, 2016
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 58

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XLrator Media | Release Date: August 5, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: As Janie recovers from a violent psychotic break, she’s subjected each day to a bizarre holistic health and wellness regimen designed, and enforced, by her lifelong nanny and caretaker. But when she develops an obsession with a stranger, Janie’s buried demons begin to surface.

Director: Ben Cresciman

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 83 min

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Martyn Conterio

Aug 4, 2016

There is much that is inexplicable and remote about Sun Choke, but those should not be read as immediate negatives, but held up as virtues. Cinema too often gives the viewer everything on a plate and then spoon feds us with details until 'we get it'. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Simon Abrams

Aug 5, 2016

Sun Choke is, after all, a melodrama, so you have to believe in Hagan's character. All of the impressionistic cinematography and special effects in the world couldn't save the film if you didn't care enough about Hagan's performance. Read full review

Noel Murray

Aug 3, 2016

The film doesn’t always work as a genre exercise, but it’s a winner as a character study, in large part because of how committed Hagan is to playing Janie’s derangement. Casting directors in search of the offbeat should take note. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Aug 4, 2016

A tense journey of psychological despair. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Aug 4, 2016

With a highly stylized form, and thick, syrupy ribbons of blood splashing everywhere, Sun Choke evokes a creepy, eerie vibe, but it’s difficult to muster more than a passing interest in the story, because we don’t know who this girl is, or why she does these things. Read full review

John DeFore

Aug 11, 2016

The plot leans toward conventional horror violence as it progresses, but Cresciman has Hogan and Crampton remain largely affectless, their blank-slate characters doing little to make us respond to the action. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jul 26, 2016

It’s a psychological thriller built around two intense and graphic sex scenes, and a few other moments of expedient nudity. Mind games, stalking and graphic violence work their way in. But it’s the sex that seems to be the movie’s reason for being. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Oct 22, 2017

It doesn't really pay off but it was entertaining enough.
Good performance of her lead actress, although I never heard of her before but I must admit that now I'll have my eyes on her.

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DirigiblePulp

Apr 22, 2017

Fetishistically aestheticized. You either connect with a film like this or you don't. I couldn't find meaning in any of this - not metaphor, plot, follow-through, ineffable subtextual transposability - nada connections.

Barbara Crampton's specific talents are wasted here. She vamps like aFetishistically aestheticized. You either connect with a film like this or you don't. I couldn't find meaning in any of this - not metaphor, plot, follow-through, ineffable subtextual transposability - nada connections.

Barbara Crampton's specific talents are wasted here. She vamps like a classic on-the-cusp B-movie villainess while the movie lies flatly inert and passive around her. It doesn't mesh. Only Sarah Hagan survives intact.… Expand

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