Straight Into Darkness

5/26/2019

***Arty, surreal indie about wandering the Euro wasteland in the closing days of WW2*** Sometime after the Battle of the Bulge in Western Europe, two lost American deserters journey the ruined landscape: Losey (Ryan Francis) is a sensitive man haunted by memories while Deming (Scott MacDonald) is a half-psycho brute. They are eventually forced to make a stand with a group of orphans and a skeptical French couple (David Warner & Linda Thorson). Written & directed by Jeff Burr, "Straight into Darkness" (2004) is a low-budget indie, (financed mostly by Burr). You can tell this immediately in the opening credits, so I wasn’t sure if I wanted to keep watching, but I’m glad I did because the filmmaking is otherwise professional and the cast rose to the challenge. The tone is melancholic