Fender Bender (2016) (Review)

Fender Bender (2016) A horror film by Mark Pavia. A teens first fender bender car accident leads her to a scary situation with a serial killer. Not so good ! But I’ll be nice again !!! There’s always a problem with time in these kinds of films. The killer appears, but everyone has time to go and hide. In the usual places: under the bed, in the cupboard, in a room with a door leading to another room… Then there are the exaggerated scenes: the person gets stabbed, deep in the stomach, thrown off the first floor… but, of course, they survive! By the way, does everyone really have a set of long, sharp knives in America? Does everyone have a baseball bat? Room under the bed? Funny how these kinds of films always happen to rich people. But maybe we have a clue: you have to be rich to get kidnapped, tortured and killed in popular thought. Poor people don’t deserve that!And who carries out this kind of murderous activity? The rich? Also ?? Well, it can’t be the poor, can it? Which brings the equation down to: the rich against the rich! Well… a bit of humour always saves the day. So, anyway! I said I’d watch the other film by Mark Pavia, director and executive producer. He also wrote this film. This guy must have thought he was a genius at some point in his life. Especially since he made the very good ‘The Night Flyer’, an excellent adaptation of a short story by the great master Stephen King. Here, however, he failed rather miserably. I said at the outset that I wasn’t enthusiastic about seeing this feature film. The film uses a whole series of codes that have been used many times before. So there are no surprises for fans of the genre. This American film is a slasher, but it’s also a home invasion. If you hate these two sub-genres of horror films, you’ll have to pass. On the other hand, I really want to talk about the lead actress, once again. Because, for once, it’s all about her. And Makenzie Vega has all the makings of a great actress. She doesn’t have the charisma of an oyster like Ella Newton in ‘Girl at the Window.’ Well… I’m being mean, because maybe Ella is great in her other roles. But one thing’s for sure: Makenzie is very strong in this role. Innocent at first. Then, you can clearly see the change in expression on her face when it’s all too much. At the age of five, Vega starred in The Geena Davis Show. At nine, she was cast as Annie, the precocious daughter of the Campbells in ‘The Family Man‘ alongside Nicolas Cage and Tea Leoni. The following year, Vega was seen again in ‘Made’ starring Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau and Famke Janssen. In 2000, she played Diana Gordon, daughter of Dr Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) and Alison Gordon (Monica Potter) in the horror film ‘Saw‘. And that’s just the beginning! And that’s not all! Her next film was ‘Sin City’, in which she played the role of young Nancy Callahan, alongside Bruce Willis. Makenzie Vega then appeared in ‘Just My Luck‘ as Katy, with Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine, as well as in the summer blockbuster ‘X-Men: The Last Stand’ as the little girl in the prison van, who was one of the shapes the shapeshifter Mystique took in the film. Suffice to say that, for a discreet actress that few people know about, she still played alongside some very big actors. You can’t say she wasted her time. But this film is a kind of coup de grâce! I don’t think the director has recovered from it. The ending couldn’t be more hopeless. It’s very dark. Ideal for those who hate happy endings. To each his own!

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