7. Carnage Park
2016’s Carnage Park is like a tapestry that reveals more of itself every time it’s viewed. Initially, the film follows the structure of Sam Peckinpah’s best work. The visual tone is warm, everyone is in trouble, and early on, the audience is made aware no one’s getting out of the movie alive.
The film, directed by Mickey Keating, follows a woman in peril who’s fighting for survival in a desolate fenced-off desert. She’s being hunted by a Vietnam vet whom she can’t seem to kill. There are plenty of scenes that would inspire the more squeamish members of the audience to turn the movie off; early on, a character is shot in the head, then a woman, played by Ashley Bell (The Last Exorcism) is handcuffed to the body and forced to find a way to free herself from the corpse. Spoiler alert: her solution isn’t pretty.
Actors: Alan Ruck, Darby Stanchfield, Ashley Bell, Larry Fessenden
Directed by: Mickey Keating