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Currently Reading Midnight in the Switchgrass Review: Megan Fox and Lukas Haas in a Serial-Killer Film That s Old-School Grindhouse
It s watchable trash, but more evidence that the serial-killer thriller has nothing left to discover.
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Director: Randall Emmett
With: Emile Hirsch, Megan Fox, Bruce Willis, Lukas Haas, Caitlin Carmichael, Olive Elise Abercrombie, Jason Trawick, Lydia Hill, Welker White.
The serial-killer thriller is a genre that, by now, has used up all its natural resources. It feels like there’s nothing left to discover in it which is why last year’s “The Little Things,” for all its star power and ostensible ambition, seemed to be poking around under rocks we’d all looked under before. Even so, it’s been a while since we’ve had a serial-killer thriller that’s as flagrant a piece of old-school grindhouse sleaze as “Midnight in the Switchgrass.”