Year: 2008
Directors: Dominic Murphy
Writers: Eddy Moretti & Shane Smith
IMDb: link
Trailer: Unavailable (boo!)
Review by: Dr. Nathan
Rating: 8 out of 10
Tapping the Source
White Lightnin’ is a sorta biographic flick about Jesco "the Dancing Outlaw" White, an Appalachian step dancer with a “weak mind” and a propensity to keep it that way. On a metaphoric level, it’s also a film about what tends to happen when you treat mental illness with a combination of brutality and drugs. And literal religion.
White Lightnin’ is a story about a man trying to escape himself and who will go to insane lengths to get there. Done documentary style, we first meet Jesco White (Jessie) when he’s just six years old and is already a connoisseur of high-octane gasoline and lighter fluid. While sonny boy huffs and puffs, his father, D-Ray, amuses all at the neighborly get-togethers by doing a little fancy mountain step-dancing.

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From the Over the Top Fest website Written by Vice Magazine co-founders, Shane Smith and Eddy Moretti, White Lightnin’ tells the story of Jesco White, ‘The Dancing Outlaw’. Jesco (Edward Hogg) is the last of the Appalachian Mountain dancers. Ever since he was a child who was hooked on huffing gas and lighter fluid, his daddy D Ray (Prison Break’s Muse Watson) tried to keep his boy on the right hand of the Lord. But it didn’t always take. When D Ray is murdered, Jesco is in danger of falling into the darkness. Thankfully he has two calming influences in his life. The traditional dances that his father had taught him as a boy, and his loving wife, Priscilla (Carrie Fisher). They can only soothe his demons for so long though before Jesco spirals out of control and leaves in his wake, one of the darkest rampages you’ll see all year.
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And one more giveaway before calling it a night. Once again thanks to the generosity of Over The Top Fest we have 5 double passes for the opening night film White Lightnin’.
Written by Vice Magazine co-founders, Shane Smith and Eddy Moretti, White Lightnin’ tells the story of Jesco White, ‘The Dancing Outlaw’. Jesco (Edward Hogg) is the last of the Appalachian Mountain dancers. Ever since he was a child who was hooked on huffing gas and lighter fluid, his daddy D Ray (Prison Break’s Muse Watson) tried to keep his boy on the right hand of the Lord. But it didn’t always take.
When D Ray is murdered, Jesco is in danger of falling into the darkness. Thankfully he has two calming influences in his life. The traditional dances that his father had taught him as a boy, and his loving wife, Priscilla (Carrie Fisher). They can only
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Actor/director Jeremiah Sayys dropped Fango a line with an update on his film Of Silence, which we last reported on here. The indie chiller follows Colby (to be played by Sayys), an ailing scuba instructor facing extremely tough times who begins to experience otherworldly incidents, and is set to begin production this April in Palmdale, CA.
The cast has been filled out with Masiela Lusha (from the upcoming live-action Blood: The Last Vampire, pictured) playing Colby’s wife, genre regular Muse Watson as his father and Paul Cuneo portraying Miskit, a debt collector. Marky Andrews will be providing makeup and special FX for the flick, while Erick Crespo will serve as cinematographer. Check back here for more updates as Of Silence heads into its shoot.

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The Panorama section will comprise a total of 50 titles with about a third of those being documentaries and here's the first 21 of the list. Oddly enough Dominic Murphy's White Lightnin' will be playing although it's having it's premier at Sundance. Another film we reported on, Uli Lommel's Absolute Evil starring David Carradine will also be playing, and I'm still wondering how the hell they got that in there.
You can check out the list of all 21 titles after the break.
Absolute Evil by Ulli Lommel, USA (world premiere)
With David Carradine, Carolyn Neff, Ulli Lommel, Chris Kiesa
Ander by Roberto Castón, Spain (directorial debut and world premiere)
With Josean Bengoetxea, Cristhian Esquivel, Mamen Rivera, Pilar Rodríguez, Leire Ucha
At Stake by Iwan Setiawan, Muhammad Ichsan, Lucky Kuswandi, Ucu Agustin, Ani Ema Susanti, Indonesia
Panorama Dokumente
Coyote by Chema Rodríguez, Spain (world premiere)
Panorama Dokumente
Der Knochenmann (The Bone Man) by Wolfgang Murnberger,

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After four seasons of jail, torture, stabbings, and death, Michael Scofield's saga has come to an end. Tonight's Prison Break series finale solved many of the drama's storylines and treated us to a montage of our "heroes" four years down the road. And then... While fans have all been expecting a big finish, few expected it would truly end this way.
Prison Break follows architect Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) whose half-brother Lincoln (Dominic Purcell) has been wrongly convicted of murder. To save his life, Michael concocts a detailed plan to have himself imprisoned and then to free both of them.
The show’s massive cast has included Amaury Nolasco, Robert Knepper, Wade Williams, Sarah Wayne Callies, William Fichtner, Paul Adelstein, Marshall Allman, Rockmond Dunbar, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Robin Tunney, Stacy Keach, Leon Russom, Phillip Edward Van Lear, Peter Stormare, Muse Watson, and Patricia Wettig.
The Fox drama debuted to solid ratings in 2005 but,
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Many moons ago (November, 2007, to be exact), we first told you about an upcoming "satirical werewolf film" called Howl that was gearing up for production.
The title referred to the surname of the lead character, John Howl, a mixed-up cop/werewolf who's obsessed with the Eighties and hot on the trail of a murderer in Hollywood. The script was written by Clint Morris, and the talent in talks for various roles included Eric Stoltz, Stephen Tobolowsky, Kam Heskin, Powers Boothe, and Muse Watson.
Now, several months later, we heard back from Morris, who pointed us in the direction of his blog, Caffeinated Clint on Moviehole.net. It seems the project, now renamed First Howl (the artwork on your right is from our earlier story), didn't quite make its planned February 14th, 2009, start date due to current economic conditions. As Clint explains it, "The company in charge of the pic, and
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It doesn't come as a big surprise considering the ratings of late but Fox has announced that they're cancelling Prison Break after four seasons. Will there be a conclusion to this high-suspense series?
Prison Break follows Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller), a young architect whose half-brother (Dominic Purcell) has been framed and incarcerated for murder. To save his brother's life, Michael concocts a detailed plan to have himself sent to prison and then to free both of them. Along the way, they realize they're involved in a far-reaching conspiracy with dire consequences for all around them. The rest of the show's large cast has also included Amaury Nolasco, Robert Knepper, Wade Williams, Sarah Wayne Callies, William Fichtner, Paul Adelstein, Marshall Allman, Rockmond Dunbar, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Robin Tunney, Stacy Keach, Leon Russom, Phillip Edward Van Lear, Peter Stormare, Muse Watson, Frank Grillo, Jason Davis, Christian Stolte, Patricia Wettig, Barbara Eve Harris,
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