This is Pike County
Mounting pressures – including an unsolved family murder – test a close-knit rural community. Between the temptation to give up and the urge to hold on, the film lingers on what it means to come of age in a place left behind.
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Don Iannone, PhD
10/22/2025
“This Is Pike County (2025)” Film Review by Don Iannone October 20, 2025 This Is Pike County, directed by Laura Paglin and produced with Thomas Lennon, was shown at the 16th Annual Chagrin Documentary Film Festival in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, where it stood out as a haunting and deeply human portraits of contemporary rural America. In This Is Pike County, Paglin, who resides in nearby Cleveland Heights, turns her lens toward a corner of America that much of the nation has forgotten yet continues to define its conscience. Set in Pike County, Ohio, a rural Appalachian community marked by both pride and pain, the film begins with the 2016 murders of eight members of the Rhoden family, a tragedy that once captured national headlines. But rather than sensationalize the crime or mine it
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