![]() ![]() The performers are impressively committed, though they run a gamut: The principals are fine while some older, name actors occasionally go over-the-top. (And why include yet another familiar clip from Romero’s original “Night of the Living Dead”? That movie’s public-domain status has been milked to death already.) All other design contributions are nicely turned, beyond some iffy CGI. Callaway’s widescreen photography, with Louisiana standing in for the Babylon, Fla., setting of co-scenarist Michael McDowell’s source novel. Ultimately at least as much a portrait of noir psychopathy a la “The Killer Inside Me” as it is a supernatural thriller, “Cold Moon” is goofy, but juicy. There’s also a well-intentioned local sheriff (Frank Whaley) and his sexy daughter (Rachele Brooke Smith), who also has dangerous ties to Nathan. Kay), and the African-American schoolteacher (Marcus Lyle Brown) Nathan tries to frame for his crimes. Other primary characters include Nathan’s awful bankster father ( Christopher Lloyd), his naive teenage brother (Robbie A. Dead Margaret appears to become empowered by a vengeful snake-spirit. That last element renders “Cold Moon” increasingly silly, but no less entertaining. Local child-of-privilege sociopath Nathan Redfield ( Josh Stewart) turns out to be the main menace here, and he’s well-deserving of the supernatural payback he gets. ![]() ![]() This merely kickstarts a lurid narrative in which some of the folks we expect to be our main protagonists barely survive past the first act. ![]()
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