Director and co-writer Alice Maio Mackay is just eighteen years old, but across her last two films -- So Vam and Bad Girl Boogey -- she's improved from an already solid start. Now, with T-Blockers, co-written with Benjamin Pahl Robinson, there's another leap forward.
Sash VO (Joni Ayton-Kent Sash) is a young horror filmmaker with a cop dad that lives in a town that doesn't seem too open to a trans girl. Yet Adam (Stanley Browning), who she goes out on a date with, does seem unfazed, even if whatever secret he tells her is so upsetting that she runs home and drinks, smokes and does coke with her roommates to the point of sickness. And Adam? Well, he's taken into a cult of men who have been rejected and indoctrinated into their sinister ways.
The entire town is becoming contaminated by something evil in the water, something beyond just passing laws against trans kids, something supernatural. And Sophie has gained the ability to grow sick any time she's around people who are under the influence of this darkness as they transform into zombies.
There's also a movie within the movie, monologues by Australian drag performer Etcetera Etcetera and a budget of around $6,000, which blows my mind, because it's all on the screen and then some. I loved how each side of the battle has their own unique color scheme and yeah, some people are going to be put off by how stereotypical so much of this movie is, but it's a teenager making the movie she wants to make, telling it on her terms, so when you can say you've made three movies and a TV series by 18, then you can show how it's done too.
Sash VO (Joni Ayton-Kent Sash) is a young horror filmmaker with a cop dad that lives in a town that doesn't seem too open to a trans girl. Yet Adam (Stanley Browning), who she goes out on a date with, does seem unfazed, even if whatever secret he tells her is so upsetting that she runs home and drinks, smokes and does coke with her roommates to the point of sickness. And Adam? Well, he's taken into a cult of men who have been rejected and indoctrinated into their sinister ways.
The entire town is becoming contaminated by something evil in the water, something beyond just passing laws against trans kids, something supernatural. And Sophie has gained the ability to grow sick any time she's around people who are under the influence of this darkness as they transform into zombies.
There's also a movie within the movie, monologues by Australian drag performer Etcetera Etcetera and a budget of around $6,000, which blows my mind, because it's all on the screen and then some. I loved how each side of the battle has their own unique color scheme and yeah, some people are going to be put off by how stereotypical so much of this movie is, but it's a teenager making the movie she wants to make, telling it on her terms, so when you can say you've made three movies and a TV series by 18, then you can show how it's done too.