Rust Creek

R

Released Jan 4, 2019

1 hr. 48 min.

Mystery & Thriller

Horror

Drama

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Sawyer is an ambitious, overachieving college senior who has a seemingly bright future. While on her way to a job interview, a wrong turn leaves her stranded deep in the frozen forest. Suddenly, the young woman who has everything to live for finds herself facing her own mortality as she's punished by the elements and pursued by a band of ruthless outlaws. With nowhere left to run, she is forced into an uneasy alliance with an enigmatic loner who has shadowy intentions.

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Critics Consensus

Rust Creek subverts expectations with a surprisingly layered survival drama anchored in a rich setting and a gripping lead performance from Hermione Corfield.

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You don't want to end up in Rust Creek Sawyer is a young college student who's just gotten accepted to a job interview in Washington DC Fearing she'll get made fun of she decides to skip Thanksgiving with her family Sawyer gets stuck in traffic on a thruway so she takes an alternate route but unfortunately she ends up stuck in the middle of nowhere in the Appalachians A few guys start harassing her and she tries to flee running into a young man named Lowell, a guy who deals in meth Lowell tries to help Sawyer get away safely from his cousins Director Jen McGowan has great leading performance by Hermione Corfield there's no doubt about that It's just that the film itself is shockingly underwhelming It fails to generate enough energy to be thrilling

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/05/24

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Daniel G

Interesting thriller with a few twists and turns

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/25/23

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Audience Member

Surprisingly this was a very good, clever and entertaining film.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

08/18/23

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corkball

Deliverance for girls? Deliverance was a MUCH better movie, but this film is still interesting to watch. The characters don't do completely stupid things like most Netflix films. The fight scenes where she beats off at least 3 full sized men are ridiculous, but if that is the only problem, not too bad. I was actually interested the most in the meth cook.. in my opinion, the most sympathetic meth cook in Hollywood, including Breaking Bad.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Slow to start but increasingly more complex dynamics and tension as it progresses towards a somewhat routine and predictable ending.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Late R

Visually, ‘Rust Creek' is a low-budget affair which, in this case, serves to give it a sense of realism when all of the Hollywood glitz and glamour is missing and you only have your locations to rely on. As for the story, with the exception of the middle act where it offers something a little different and hints at some depth to the narrative that it doesn't really know what to do with (I'm not sure it blends well with the rest of the film anyway, but it's an interesting idea), it finds itself in very standard thriller territory that you've definitely seen many times before (someone gets lost in a rural area and hunted by rednecks) and ends exactly as you'd expect it to. Entertaining enough to pass time with some taut scenes, but overall, it's not particularly memorable.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/03/22

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Jen McGowan

Director

Hermione Corfield

Sawyer

Jay Paulson

Lowell

Sean O'Bryan

Sheriff O'Doyle

John Marshall Jones

Slattery

Micah A. Hauptman

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Nell Minow

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Director Jen McGowan has a genuine feel for place and she gives us a heroine who does not have to be a superhero to be fearless, tough, and determined.

Oct 26, 2021

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Tim Cogshell

FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)

Has way more story than it needs.

Sep 14, 2019

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Jude Dry

indieWire

Under McGowan's restrained direction, "Rust Creek" is an impressive example of good storytelling overriding budget and star power.

Rated: B

Jan 18, 2019

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

A delightfully harrowing thriller from director Jen McGowan.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 25, 2022

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Cate Marquis

AWFJ.org

Rust Creek is a genre film, aiming just to entertain, and there is no reason women directors can't make those kinds of films too rather than ones with social commentary.

Oct 26, 2021

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Jennifer Merin

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Special praise goes to cinematographer Michelle Lawler, whose stunning camerawork consistently sets us on edge.

Oct 26, 2021

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Synopsis

Sawyer is an ambitious, overachieving college senior who has a seemingly bright future. While on her way to a job interview, a wrong turn leaves her stranded deep in the frozen forest. Suddenly, the young woman who has everything to live for finds herself facing her own mortality as she's punished by the elements and pursued by a band of ruthless outlaws. With nowhere left to run, she is forced into an uneasy alliance with an enigmatic loner who has shadowy intentions.

Director: Jen McGowan
Executive Producer: Jamie Buckner, Alexandra Jensen
Screenwriter: Julie Lipson, Stu Pollard
Distributor: IFC Midnight
Production Co: IFC Films
Rating: R (Language|Violence|Some Drug Material)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Horror, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 4, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 6, 2019

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