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- 2018
- Freestyle Digital Media
- 1 h 29 m
- 2018
- Freestyle Digital Media
- 1 h 29 m
Summary Alone, and targeted on an isolated farm, 12 year old Henry finds himself at the center of a maelstrom of terror, and a dark family legacy, when his secretive grandfather dies suddenly in the night.
Directed By: Michael Peterson
Written By: Kevin Cockle, Jordan Scott, Michael Peterson
- 2018
- Freestyle Digital Media
- 1 h 29 m
- 2018
- Freestyle Digital Media
- 1 h 29 m
Knuckleball
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Summary Alone, and targeted on an isolated farm, 12 year old Henry finds himself at the center of a maelstrom of terror, and a dark family legacy, when his secretive grandfather dies suddenly in the night.
Directed By: Michael Peterson
Written By: Kevin Cockle, Jordan Scott, Michael Peterson
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Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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40% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
40% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
20% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
55
40% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
40% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
20% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
What distinguishes Knuckleball from other thrillers involving children is the seeming reality of the peril portrayed.
Knuckleball does not flutter; its pace and tone is lean, mean and eerie. Luca Villacis plays the home-alone little hero, a Rambo MacGyver Jr. in the making. Not all the kid’s ingenuity and wits are plausible, though, and a late-plot throw-in is a bit much. Still, there’s Ironside and enough cold-weather tension to make Knuckleball a swing-and-hit deal.
For the most part, this is a tautly constructed exercise in suspense, set among striking-looking snowbound fields and farmhouses. It’s a vivid slice-of-life, even before the literal slicing begins.
Knuckleball mostly fills up its running time by being a twisted, even more ridiculous Home Alone.
Its premise may not be particularly original. But with it, Knuckleball could still have made for an effective movie, a horror film that’d also have doubled as a meditation on family. In actuality, however, Knuckleball ends up falling into a subcategory of horror films that I like to call “music-dependent.” Take away Michelle Osis and David Arcus’ scary-sounding score, in other words, and the film’s myriad flaws become woefully apparent.
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