Taking the term “wedlock” a tad too literally, TILL DEATH tells the tale of a young woman who wakes up handcuffed to her dead husband after a romantic evening in their secluded lake house.
Trapped and isolated in the dead of winter, sporting a facial of her husband’s blood and brains, the widow proves to be quite resourceful in her attempts to free her self from her decomposing departed, but is thwarted at almost every turn.
When her lover turns up it looks like her luck with the lock may be turned but he’s not the only surprise visitor that turns up to double the dilemma.
After a fairly pedestrian start, TILL DEATH kicks in with quite an interesting concept that is macabre, gruesome and funny.
Jason Carvey’s screenplay carves a nice little niche in the resourceful damsel in distress scenario and Australian director S K Dale escalates the humour leavened tensions with aplomb.
Megan Fox brings a stony wiliness to her character, never descending into the vector of victim. Her determination to void victim, vanquish the villain and vantage victory is laudable.
Australian actor Callan Mulvey plays the suitably psychotic villain with cyclopian overtones while Jack Roth runs conflicted cohort as his safe cracking brother.
Eoin Macken brings a manacled menace to the deceased spouse, a trigger mortis performance of dead weight dread.
Jettisoning its predictable and static set up scenes , TILL DEATH eventually finds its own gruelling pace and comes in at an economical eighty minute plus pulse raiser.
Featured image: Megan Fox and Eoin Macken
TILL DEATH launches on Home Entertainment* 4th August 2021
