In this moody Gothic drama from writer/director Robert Hall (Laid to Rest), Bret Harrison stars as the poorly named Green Graves, a fledgling make-up artist who hopes his talent for making monster models and masks will be his ticket out of his depressing trailer park life. When his mom marries the local drunk, Green’s life takes a violent turn for the worse. Thankfully, he finds romance and friendship with a Goth girl named Angevin Duvet (Laura Prepon) who not only shares his passion for horror movies, but has a dream of escaping that’s as strong as his. If you are looking for a ‘horror’ movie, this is not the film for you. If, however, you are in the mood for a dark and troubling drama, then you’ve hit a gold mine. Hall has a real talent of pacing the scenes in Lightning Bug to milk a maximum amount of tension from even the most commonplace situations. When the tension reaches a boiling point, he also has a way of directing the violence that follows in a gritty, realistic fashion that perfectly underscores the tension he’s built. Both Harrison and Prepon are good in the roles of the two young lovers, but it’s Kevin Gage’s chilling portrayal of the drunken step day that really hones the edge of the film.
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