‘TRAP’ Exclusive Trailer: A Gritty Look At Life In A Decaying City
Mary Beth McAndrews
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Director Anthony Edward Curry makes his feature film debut with the gritty TRAP (which stands for The Real Asbury Park) a film described as having “all the raw power of early Safdie/Korine joints”. Inspired by Curry’s own experiences, the film, currently playing at the Chattanooga Film Festival, is an unflinching look at street life. And we have an exclusive look at the film’s first trailer.
Read the full synopsis:
TRAP is a film experience centered largely on the memories of “Curb” (played by writer/director Anthony Edward Curry), a man facing a life sentence for his time in organized crime. Since the Asbury Park Riots of 1970, the once-decayed cities’ turmoil is split between the tracks that separate the East, on the verge of rebirth, from the underground of the West Side of town.
The feature follows the loosely interconnected stories of several characters caught in their city’s eternal cycle of chaos, violence, doom, and despair; a gang of violent street kids, two sister thieves, and a crooked mob boss dwell beneath the dark cloud hanging over The Real Asbury Park. Detective Bronson, a gambling, alcohol, and drug-addicted cop, is hell-bent on finding and arresting Curb.
Watch the trailer below:
Curry said of the project:
“I wrote TRAP when I was 16, but I let the film find itself over five years of production. It constantly morphed as the real-life characters evolved before my eyes. It was a long road to completion, between being a key witness in a real-life highly-publicized murder trial, a global pandemic, and almost being murdered during the making of it. I was re-writing constantly, every day I was changing… because the characters were changing in front of me.”
Marissa Jade (Mob Wives & Celebrity Big Brother) and Tina Krause (The Recovered, Animal Room, Nikos the Impaler) star in the film. TRAP also stars many first-timing actors from Asbury Park who are said to give the performance of a lifetime.
Trap is playing now as part of the 2023 Chattanooga Film Festival. You can purchase single tickets here.
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