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When a name appears in the credits of a film as often as Mickey Reece’s does in his own, your first impulse as a writer is to call him a “one-man band.” But he’s not at least, not anymore. Before he was a self-taught filmmaker on the rise, this Oklahoma native was a touring musician, performing under the moniker El Paso Hot Button. Watching old YouTube clips of him playing a tambourine with one hand and his guitar with the other, left foot on a snare drum and right foot on the bass, it feels like a tidy visual metaphor for the life of a DIY artist. But the longer you talk to him, the more you realize that Mickey Reece resists neat classifications.
Exclusive Interview: Accidental Auteur Mickey Reece Talks CLIMATE OF THE HUNTER By Drew Tinnin
Out of the harsh winds of Oklahoma, filmmaker Mickey Reece’s name has suddenly been sent out over much of indie film America over the last couple of years. Going the long way around the only way he knew how, Reece has quietly written and directed 27 feature films since 2008. After turning heads at Fantastic Fest with
Strike, Dear Mistress And Cure His Heart (a nice nod to The Velvet Underground), his new film
Climate of the Hunter has broken through enough to boost Reece’s signal to a lot more antennas across the film culture landscape.
CLIMATE OF THE HUNTER Review: Lurid Truth or a Lie of the Mind? By Paul Grammatico
In many vampire films, the story usually takes place in a desolate castle or manor where a visitor has to travel several miles and, at times, over terrible terrain to visit the Count or some aristocratic equivalent. With large great rooms and cobwebbed corridors, the aristocrat uses his charms in order to stave off mortality by drinking the blood of others. A doctor or scientist convinces the other upper crust to eliminate the menace that surrounds them.
The Climate of the Hunter, a film produced by Perm Machine and distributed by Dark Star Pictures, shatters this environment and provides a different, albeit lurid atmosphere in a nearly abandoned area of vacation cottages during a mild winter.