Indie filmmaker David Spaltro's follow up to his award-winning Things I Don't Understand, titled ...In The Dark, is an independently produced horror feature. Like Spaltro's earlier films, this is also set in modern day New York. The story concerns Bethany (Grace Folsom), a talented young artist who starts having strange experiences after her father's passing. Her distressed mother (Catherine Cobb Ryan) seeks help from Professor Kearne (Fiona Horrigan), an experienced and renowned specialist in paranormal activities. Together with sceptical grad student Veronica (Lynn Justinger), Kearne visits the house that appears haunted and the pair soon finds themselves coming face-to-face with forces that are much stronger and much more evil than they would ever imagine. It is clear that the script (also by Spaltro) was written following some detailed...
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- 6/22/2015
- Screen Anarchy
...In the Dark is a new, independently produced horror film by writer-director David Spaltro (...Around and the multi-award winning Things I Don't Understand) in collaboration with Seven Oaks Films and Intimation Productions. It stars Grace Folsom and Lynn Justinger (both from Things I Don't Understand), as well as Fiona Horrigan, Catherine Cobb Ryan and Kayla Leasure. Skeptical grad student, Veronica Carpenter (Lynn Justinger), interviews renowned paranormal specialist, Dr. Lois Kearne (Fiona Horrigan), for her thesis on the benefits of her supernatural research in regards to modern psychology, and joins her on a field study trip to a Brooklyn family home supposedly "besieged by evil spirits". Once at the residence of nurse Joan Mills (Catherine Cobb Ryan) and Bethany (Grace Folsom), her recently returned daughter, the investigators...
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- 6/14/2015
- Screen Anarchy
David Spaltro's Things I Don't Understand is a wonderful independent film set in New York City that has been selected at numerous film festivals and won a number of prestigious awards over the past few months. The film's lead actress Molly Ryman gave a wonderful performance, for which she was recently awarded Best Actress at the Northwest Ohio Independent Film Festival. I sat down with Molly to talk about acting, life and independent filmmaking. Can you tell us a bit about yourself? Oh goodness. Well, I am originally from Minnesota. I have an incredible family though I have always felt like the odd ball. I've always been a bit of a daydreamer so my family has been good at keeping me (somewhat) practical. I...
- 7/17/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Grace Folsom may not be a name familiar to many of you at present, but I have little doubt that you will see and hear a lot more from this actress in the years to come. Her debut feature film performance in the independent New York-set production, Things I Don't Understand, is nothing short of amazing. I was truly impressed by her portrayal of a young person dying of cancer, and so it was with pleasure that I spoke with Grace about acting, movies and working in New York City. Can you tell us a bit about yourself?I was born and raised in Arlington Va. I have a Bfa from Nyu Tisch School of Arts in acting with a minor in computer applications and went to...
- 5/10/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Hugo Dillon and Molly Ryman in "Things I Don't Understand"
Someday, everyone you know won’t exist. Tomorrow doesn’t matter until it’s today. No one makes it through life unscathed, in one way or another.
These are just a few of the lessons found in “Things I Don’t Understand,” a small indie rumination with big pretensions. In his follow up to his debut feature “…Around” (2008), director David Spaltro gets ambitious and tackles life’s essential questions: what happens when we die? why are we here? what does it mean to love? how can we accept death?
Violet is an aloof grad student hoping to discern life’s indiscernible mysteries through her study of death and beyond. Along the way she’s befriended, challenged and enlightened by a terminally ill woman and a cagey bartender, and faces the realities of adult life with her boisterous artist roommates.
As in his debut “…Around,...
Someday, everyone you know won’t exist. Tomorrow doesn’t matter until it’s today. No one makes it through life unscathed, in one way or another.
These are just a few of the lessons found in “Things I Don’t Understand,” a small indie rumination with big pretensions. In his follow up to his debut feature “…Around” (2008), director David Spaltro gets ambitious and tackles life’s essential questions: what happens when we die? why are we here? what does it mean to love? how can we accept death?
Violet is an aloof grad student hoping to discern life’s indiscernible mysteries through her study of death and beyond. Along the way she’s befriended, challenged and enlightened by a terminally ill woman and a cagey bartender, and faces the realities of adult life with her boisterous artist roommates.
As in his debut “…Around,...
- 5/2/2012
- by Eric M. Armstrong
- The Moving Arts Journal
It's a classic underdog story. Indie filmmaker David Spaltro's second feature, Things I Don't Understand, was a superb film waiting to be discovered. You might recall reading my review of the film and interview with the director, a really nice guy who in the words of fellow excellent indie director, Gary King (How Do You Write A Joe Schermann Song), is 'very humble and supportive'. So I was quietly confident that it was just a matter of time before Things I Don't Understand would find its audience. The film entered its first film festival, Indie Spirit Film Festival, last weekend. The first screening was early on the Saturday morning and unsurprising, there were only a few people (8 to be exact) in the audience. The good...
- 4/25/2012
- Screen Anarchy
The most recent great film set in New York City that I saw was a little independent film called Things I Don't Understand from writer-director-producer David Spaltro. As you could tell from my positive review, I admired it a lot. So when I heard that pre-production for Spaltro's third and final valentine to NYC (after 2008's ...Around and 2011's Things I Don't Understand) has begun and that shooting is due to start in early winter 2013, I am naturally excited. Here is what Spaltro told me about his new film: "The film's plot deals with memories, the art of writing and storytelling, changing relationships as well as a science fiction element involving time travel and space. It's going to be a bit non-linear detailing an important...
- 4/6/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Things I Don't Understand is a fantastic independent film that I got the opportunity to watch and review recently, and it was an absolute pleasure for me to catch up with the film's director David Spaltro to talk about life, Tidu, and independent filmmaking.Independent filmmaking can be both challenging and rewarding. Tell us the things you like and dislike the most about being an independent filmmaker. An actor on my first film who had participated in a ton of critically acclaimed films during the indie explosion of the early 90's told me something a writer-director said when their film was at Cannes, "I'll never have this much freedom again". I think the beauty of independently going out and making a film is that you have a...
- 3/12/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Indie filmmaker David Spaltro's Things I Don't Understand is a little film that discusses life's big issues. Death and dying; love and loss; and family and friendship are some of the central themes of the film. Things is thought provoking while at the same time manages to avoid being preachy. Considering the serious nature of its subject matters, it is surprisingly enjoyable thanks to a beautiful script penned by Spaltro himself, as well as some outstanding performances by his cast. The film's central character Violet has a pretty messed up life. As a result of this and some of her experiences in the past, she is obsessed with the subject of death and what happens after people die. She starts interviewing people who have had near-death...
- 3/1/2012
- Screen Anarchy
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