Although marketed as a psychological thriller, Dylan O’Brien tells us about how Flashback’s narrative is rooted in genre, with elements of horror and sci-fi.
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If Slaughterhouse-Five and Donnie Darko had a baby, and that baby grew up in the 2000s, became a teenager and then developed a bit of a substance abuse problem, went partying with Denis Villeneuveâs Enemy and that Ashton Kutcher movie The Butterfly Effect, developed memory loss and depression, then it might look something like this interesting but rather muddled Canadian science fiction film.
Dylan OâBrien, an actor in his late 20s who is fortuitously baby-faced enough to be cast as a high-school senior, stars as Fred, a guy who seems to have come a bit unstuck in time. At first, things seem normal as he goes about his life as an IT office drone, working under tough boss Evelyn (Amanda Brugel, looking more glam here than she usually does in The Handmaidâs Tale) and living with his nice but somewhat dull partner Karen (Hannah Gross). But the increasing dementia of his mother (Liisa Repo-Martell) and memories triggered by old
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Lionsgate’s mind-bending thriller
Flashback is set to release in theaters and everywhere films are rented on June 4 with a Blu-ray and digital release following June 8. The film stars Dylan O’Brien (
Teen Wolf), Maika Monroe (
It Follows), and Hannah Gross (
Joker). ComingSoon is excited to debut a new clip from the movie, which stars O’Brien as Fred, who journeys into his past in the Christopher MacBride directed film.
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Frederick Fitzell (Dylan O’Brien,
The Maze Runner) is living his best live – until he starts having horrific visions of Cindy (Maika Monroe,
It Follows), a girl who vanished in high school. He reaches out to old friends with whom he used to take a mystery drug called Mercury, but realizes the only solution lies deep within his own memories. So Frederick goes on a terrifying mental odyssey to learn the truth. This mind-bending thriller also stars Hannah Gross (