Murder ain't that easy in Ally Was Screaming

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      With its tale of two friends planning the perfect murder, Ally Was Screaming might remind some viewers of the 1948 film, Rope. But if homicide was a coldblooded intellectual enterprise for the two psycho-protagonists in Hitchcock’s movie, it’s a much more complicated issue for Nole and Seth (Charlie Carrick and recent X-Files guest star Giacomo Baessato), who emerge more likeably than you might expect from writer-director Jeremy Thomas’s Calgary-shot feature.

      Camille Sullivan plays their intended victim Casey, who stands between the two would-be killers and a winning lottery ticket. Sullivan is worth watching in anything, but she bagged a Union of BC Performers award for her role in Ally Was Screaming, which toys pretty expertly with your expectations right until its last shot. Meanwhile, Calgary turns in an impressive performance too: a colourless backdrop of strip mall restaurants and boxy apartments that’s as grey as the moral fog contemplated by Nole and Seth.

      See it on Sunday (February 7) with a beer and the cast in attendance, at the Rio Theatre. Details here. 

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