Tin Can

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Tin Can

Released Aug 5, 2022

1h 44m

Horror

Sci-Fi

Mystery & Thriller

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Cold, pale and in the dark, Fret (Anna Hopkins) crashes back to consciousness inside a small metal chamber. Inside her confined cell, Fret attempts to piece together how she was imprisoned. As a scientist, who was on the brink of discovering a cure from a deadly plague, Fret desperately works to escape her cell to save the last of humanity.

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

There are elements of classic science fiction here, yes. But “Tin Can” is more like a tone poem about humankind’s inherent frailties.

Aug 12, 2022

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Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana

Moving Pictures Film Club

the lack of a cohesive plot – or any sort of fully realised character development – causes the film’s narration to be waywardly adrift,

Rated: 2/5

Jul 15, 2024

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Daniel Gorman

In Review Online

Smith has pulled off the remarkable feat of turning a low budget and limited means into a virtue rather than a hindrance, allowing his characters’ disorientation to seep into and infect the film’s very structure.

Sep 1, 2022

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Terry Mesnard

Gayly Dreadful

I cannot get the bleak implications of the story out of my mind...The nihilistic theme and the subtle character work benefits multiple viewings, but not everyone will sign-up for a second helping of this slow-burn gooey mess of a movie.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 10, 2022

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Josh Bell

Crooked Marquee

The goopy, grimy practical effects are sometimes impressive, but they lose impact without anything concrete to signify.

Rated: C+

Aug 10, 2022

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Steve Biodrowski

Cinefantastique

TIN CAN is admirably ambitious, but it fails to realize its full potential. Nevertheless, it provides ample proof that director Seth A. Smith and cowriter Darcy Spidle are talent worth watching

Rated: 2/5

Aug 8, 2022

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Diana S

Really liked the retro vibe, also the plot twist toward the end. I greatly appreciate nuanced female protagonists, and so even though the sci-fi end of things felt just a little underdeveloped and the tone was a bit uneven at times with oddly placed contemporary pish-posh, the story overall resonated with me.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

05/09/24

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Azzam A

An absolute waste of time. The movie is supposed to be sci-fi, around the virus and the cure for it. Instead, it's about the relationship of two people. The music and lighting takes away from the movie too, like having someone play music while you're at the movie theater. Waste of time.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/24

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Ash B

The first half, though slow, was mysterious and riveting. The second half is a hackneyed "revenge on cheating boyfriend" story with random scifi coating. If it stopped at part 1, I would have been content. Part 2 basically ruined it for me.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

10/21/23

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Jim B

Kind of a pile of turds... You keep hoping for some grand reveal, or some way to make sense of the movie, but that never comes. Just a bunch of infected people trapped inside some kind of underground facility that transforms infected people into robots that dispose of infected people. While I am sure it couldn't possibly be the actual plot, it feels like the lead actress basically caused the destruction of human life by being jealous of her cheating boyfriend. In the end, they all get what they had coming... Which is death and suffering.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

08/25/23

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Chelsea T

Plot moved at glacial speed. Trite themes were blatantly expressed in dialogue. I Didnt love any one character because they were all despicable at some point. The movie wasn't terrible enough to stop watching, but I didn't feel any pay off for finishing it. It gets a little credit for originality but the execution left a lot to be desired

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

08/11/23

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Magyar T

Highly creative. Noir scifi. Revenge among the spurned nerds. Lots of fascinating slime. What's not to like?

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

05/15/23

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Synopsis

Cold, pale and in the dark, Fret (Anna Hopkins) crashes back to consciousness inside a small metal chamber. Inside her confined cell, Fret attempts to piece together how she was imprisoned. As a scientist, who was on the brink of discovering a cure from a deadly plague, Fret desperately works to escape her cell to save the last of humanity.

Director: Seth A. Smith
Producer: Nancy Urich
Screenwriter: Seth A. Smith, Darcy Spidle
Distributor: Dread
Production Co: Cut Off Tail
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 5, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 9, 2022
Runtime: 1h 44m

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