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  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 36 m

Summary What happens when you throw together a fallen Mexican wrestler with serious rage issues, a just-out-of-prison ex-con with a regrettable face tattoo, and a recovering junkie motel owner in search of a kidney? That’s the premise of the berserk, blood-spattered, and wickedly entertaining feature debut from Ryan Prows. Set amidst the seedy u...

Directed By: Ryan Prows

Written By: Tim Cairo, Jake Gibson, Shaye Ogbonna, Maxwell Michael Towson, Ryan Prows

  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Midnight
  • 1 h 36 m

Lowlife

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
66
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
7.1
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Summary What happens when you throw together a fallen Mexican wrestler with serious rage issues, a just-out-of-prison ex-con with a regrettable face tattoo, and a recovering junkie motel owner in search of a kidney? That’s the premise of the berserk, blood-spattered, and wickedly entertaining feature debut from Ryan Prows. Set amidst the seedy u...

Directed By: Ryan Prows

Written By: Tim Cairo, Jake Gibson, Shaye Ogbonna, Maxwell Michael Towson, Ryan Prows

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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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75
Its characters are unforgettably batty yet impressively noble...sympathetic yet fierce.... And their actions consistently achieve dramatic merit despite always culminating with a joke.
By Jared Mobarak FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 5, 2018
Prows and company don’t simply play the often outrageous (and occasionally grisly) content for tasteless sensationalism, comic or otherwise. They treat it with an interesting, empathic yet slightly detached tone somewhere between the respectful and the droll.
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PurpleCrayon4U
Dec 18, 2019
One of the best films you will see this year, or whatever year you see Lowlife. The script, the dialogue, the writing -Outstanding The production, the direction -Fantastic The performances -Perfectomundo The mixture of cultures combined to deliver a unique story is so fresh when compared to what is delivered in the last decade. The team of Tim Cairo, Jake Gibson, Shaye Ogbonna, Ryan Prows and Maxwell Michael Towson need lots of attention as their future works will only be so much better.
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sachineldho
Apr 12, 2019
This movie is like Pulp Fiction, the editing, storyline and all, but with Mexicans. It is good overall, but compared to the Tarantino magic created in 1994, this movie is nothing.
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70
Bracing and well paced, it may occasionally stretch too far for an attention-getting quirk, but Lowlife feels fresher than it has any right to be, given its ingredients.
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70
Lowlife is a dirt-nasty nonlinear debut for Ryan Prows, sewn together from vengeful, spite-driven tales of urban survival.
By Matt Donato FULL REVIEW
67
Apr 18, 2018
Lowlife is also far more bloodstained than Tarantino’s normal fare. Grisly isn’t the word: The entire effects and makeup team work overtime for some of the most splattertastic effects in any non-horror film since the bone-shattering, skull-squishing glories of "Brawl on Cell Block 99."
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67
A messy but ultimately interesting look a a group of downtrodden individuals who get mixed up in an organ harvesting scheme.
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60
Apr 5, 2018
The tangled plot is ultimately too simple, and the film's sociopolitical commentary too paltry. But Lowlife does have a refreshingly varied and up-to-date cast of characters. With seedy B-movies, just a little bit of ambition elevates the generic.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
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Deanomite
Jan 22, 2020
good script, mixes gritty street crime and horror, characters and music well done. A little too choppy.
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JLuis_001
Sep 15, 2018
Better than I expected, but I think the comparisons with Tarantino's films puts an unnecessary burden of high expectations in a film that is far from offering those results.
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Production Company Initialize Films, The Salt Company International, Tomm Fondle
Release Date Apr 6, 2018
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline Blessed Are The Meek
Website http://www.lowlifethemovie.com/
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Awards

Fantasia Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
FrightFest
• 3 Nominations

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