A certain strain of urban loneliness is at the center of two movies playing a new film festival that takes place at the recently renovated Ridgewood Presbyterian Church, now operating an art space called the Stone Circle Theatre. It may be over a decade since movies played at the iconic and historically landmarked Ridgewood Theater, but this weekend, at any rate, at least two indie movies are playing a few blocks away.
In the first, a debut horror movie by a Brooklyn director named Alexandra Spieth, rolls into the new Ridgewood Off-kilter Film Festival following a year-long tour through pit stops at the Atlanta Horror Film Festival, Female Eye Film Festival and the GenreBlast Film Festival, among others.
A low-budget nightmare journey that evokes the continued legacy of Get Out among indie filmmakers, Spieth’s Stag sets its sight on the anxieties and insecurities of female friendship.
Jenny, played by a frantically relatable Mary Glen Fredrick and described by the movie’s tagline as “an urban loner,” is invited to depart her largely empty apartment and isolating, pre-pandemic…
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