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Director: Jon Garcia

Stars: Nick Ferrucci, Benjamin Farmer, Brian J. Saville Allard...

RJ and Chris are two teenage boys raised in Mormon communities. Though both are poster boys for their church with perfect academic records and pretty girlfriends, buried feelings soon rise to the surface when they are assigned to serve a mission together as part of their rite of passage.

Beautiful movie. I enjoyed it very much. At first I found it interesting to see their everyday way of life because religious communities are not something that I have any experience with, but later on in the movie I stayed because of the love story. I think it’s simple, yet very effective and at points really emotional and touching. I loved the chemistry of the characters, I like how affectionate and gentle they are with each other, while at the same time there was also an undeniable sexual tension between them that could be felt. The process of merging (and even enhancing) their religious and spiritual pursuits with their new-found love for each other is done with great care and I also appreciate how the movie wasn’t particularly one-sided, as the characters both sometimes question their belief systems and struggle with doubt.

I’m looking forward to watching the sequels and I hope there’s going to be a happy ending for the couple because they deserve it.

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Summoning the Spirit--A young couple living in a beautiful, isolated house in the forest find themselves neighbors to a hippie commune led by an obsequious creep.  Emotionally vulnerable after a recent heartbreak, the couple (Krystal Millie Valdes and Ernesto Reyes) are increasingly drawn in by the insufferable cultists. Meanwhile, off in the distance, a glowering Bigfoot keeps an eye on things from the woods.

Bigfoot has had a long if largely low-rent history in movies, from 1972's redoubtable The Legend of Boggy Creek to the amusing 1976 Creature from Black Lake to the big-studio Harry and the Hendersons in 1987, and on TV from Bigfoot and Wildboy on '70s Saturday mornings to the "Messin' With Sasquatch" commercials for Jack Link's jerky. The best Bigfoot movie may have been a startling, too-little-known 2007 chiller by David Blair and Adam Pitman called Paper Dolls, later re-released as The Sighting. But the micro-budgeted Summoning the Spirit, directed by Jon Garcia from a script he wrote with Zach Carter, can probably lay claim to being the weirdest Bigfoot flick yet.

It has an undeniable atmosphere of unease, however, deriving more from the human than from the cryptid element. The movie is hampered by a sluggish pace--pauses between the actors' lines big enough for the creature's foot to fit through--and a frustrating vagueness, but the growing sense of unsavory menace generated in the group scenes within the repellent yet somehow plausible cult is quite distressing. 

Jesse Tayeh is effectively loathsome as the leader, and Isabelle Muthiah makes an impression as an intense, seductive flower child. When you watch their overtures to the hapless couple, you're likely to think that you wouldn't tolerate these people for ten seconds, but of course, in life, politeness and group compliance really might overrule wisdom.

Dark Star Pictures has dropped the new Bigfoot horror film, SUMMONING THE SPIRIT onto Digital and DVD platforms today! The movie is co-written and directed by Jon Garcia. You can watch the trailer to see what the fuss is about and get more details on the film. From The Press Release “An Awesome Cult/Monster Mashup” Horror Obsessive “The Kind Of Creative Feature That Gets Under The Fur. It…

‘Something has awakened’ Summoning the Spirit is a 2023 American horror drama film about a young couple that encounters a bizarre cult that worships Sasquatch. Directed and co-produced by Jon Garcia from a screenplay co-written by Zach Carter. Produced by Joe Jatcko, Michael Repsch, Lacy Todd and Sam Treadway. The Lake Productions movie stars Krystal Millie Valdes, Ernesto Reyes, Jesse Tayeh,…

Sex Weather    [trailer]

The morning after the premiere his new film, a sleepy-eyed Darrel wakes to find himself in bed with his crew member Syndey. As they begin to discuss the previous evening, emotions give rise to a passionate and thoughtful relationship that once could have been.

Nice two hander. Because it takes place at a single location it's strictly speaking not a walk-and-talk movie, but it belongs to that genre.

Funny situations, serious conversations, awkward as well as satisfying sex. It felt quite real.

The ending was a little abrupt. I think it would've been possible to reach the same result without changing course so drastically.