Just when you thought the world (or your little corner of it) is saved and you can ease up on your Fall Guy meets Robocop by way of Marked for Death life into something a little more The Wonder Years, there goes Studio City (and Joe Khachadourian) coming up with new plots and scripts to blow it all to hell. (12.5/13)
Man of Sin starts out dark, slips into shadow and then cascades into ebon blackness before being consumed in blazing hellfire. It’s a story of grief, pain, rage and harrowing loss. And the antichrist, the end of times and how that’s all supposed to pan out. More than a simple eulogy or horror, Sin is a bit of a puzzle, one that I won’t expand upon much here to avoid stealing the fun from you—but one that Guilde unravels masterfully, until you feel not so much sucker-punched as slowly constricted, until your breath is utterly taken from you. (12/13)