But even with the occasional far-fetched turn, it’s always a bracing film, skating by on Dunlap’s nervous energy and Urbano’s heedless, never-consider-consequences high school kid. James’s debut feature has its “Oh, come on” moments.
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“Low Life” takes us through Benny’s dark night of the soul, full of revelations, confrontations, violence and ugly self-discovery as he sucks a couple of old pals (Hunter Milano and Jake Dvorsky) into his obsession and his world. Benny’s desperate to please her, or at least not let “the fans” down. She’s even more impulsive, less mature and less filtered. It’s not like he changed all that much.īut he has this equally-obsessed teen fan-girl ( Lucy Urbano) passing on tips and siccing him on a friend’s “creeper” dad.
He used to be the star basketball player, used to be the biggest guy on the court. You’re Benny Jansen, aren’t you?”Īs Benny freaks out at this exposing of the exposer, he web searches for gun shops and buys “protection.” But a peek inside Benny’s life tells us why he never took that step before now.Ī trip back to his old high school summons up formative memories.
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He self-righteously claps-back at a TV reporter who ambushes the ambusher, expressing “the sheriff’s” concerns about the “vigilante” illegality of what he’s doing.īut things chance when we see him light into the subject of an “investigation,” only to have the guy “make” him - “We went to high school together. He’s deep down the Holden Caulfield rabbit hole, “saving” girls from “predators,” a catcher in the wi-fi. Benny is also a drama queen, primping and rehearsing his bits, lapsing into his best Travis Bickle tough-guy-who-might-be-psycho speech to get his game face on. He walks viewers through the icky online conversations - the genital photos - and then videos the moment he meets and confronts these pervs.īenny is brazen and unafraid. As Creep Dunk, he takes tips from fans and sets out to entrap men into approaching underage girls on the Internet. It’s also a commentary of the golden age of “projection,” a picture that asks what some of the people who are so obsessed with this subject - the quickest to scream “PEDOPHILE” at others - might have on their Internet search history.ĭirector Tyler Michael James and screenwriters Hunter Milano and Noah Rotter take us into the life of a Youtube exposer of pedophiles, an amped-up catfisher-for-“justice” who goes by Creep Dunk.Īnd even as it sometimes lapses into melodrama and goes off the deep end, it’s a seriously unsettling ride.īenny Jansen, given Big Fanatic Energy by Wes Dunlap - is scoring page-view fame and getting the attention of the local PD in his corner of suburban Nevada.
“Low Life” is a jittery, nerve-wracking thriller, a peek behind the “gotcha” cell phone camera of a confrontational stalker-of-stalkers. Here’s a creepy indie snapshot of America at this moment - performative, attention-grabbing, impulsive and child-exploitation obsessed.
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