Today on VOD: Closer to God and Stung
John Squires
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It’s Fourth of July weekend so you’re likely to be spending these next couple days barbecuing tasty meats, drinking cold beers, and lighting off fireworks, but if you find a few hours to spare in between all that holiday fun, two new genre flicks are being served up VOD style. Read on!
First up, director Billy Senese’s Closer to God (review) hits both limited theaters and VOD outlets today, a film that our own Brad McHargue recently hailed as a “stellar low-budget thriller.” Jeremy Childs, Shannon Hoppe, David Alford, and Shelean Newman star.
In the film, Dr. Victor Reed is a brilliant geneticist who has just achieved a huge scientific breakthrough by successfully cloning the first human being, an adorable baby girl named Elizabeth. This immediately becomes a media spectacle and ignites a firestorm of debate concerning the moral and religious implications of such a discovery.
Soon, Dr. Reed and his family lose all sense of privacy and safety as they are swarmed by protesters and the media. Their biggest threat, however, could be Victor’s own secret.
Also getting the select theater and VOD treatment today is IFC Midnight’s Stung (review), directed by Benni Diez and starring Lance Henriksen, Clifton Collins Jr., Jessica Cook, and Matt O’Leary. This one is a highly entertaining creature feature, loaded with fantastic practical effects.
In a remote country villa set amid foggy rural farmlands, the elderly widow of a pharmaceutical magnate holds an annual garden party for the local elite in honor of her late husband. But the festivities take a grisly turn when a plague of giant killer wasps is unleashed on the unsuspecting partygoers, leaving the caterers, Julia and Paul, pitted against the seven-foot mutant predators in a deadly fight for survival.
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