{"id":307043,"date":"2021-07-24T06:08:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T03:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-midnight-in-the-switchgrass-review-a-grindhouse-serial-killer-flick\/"},"modified":"2021-07-24T06:08:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T03:08:20","slug":"watch-midnight-in-the-switchgrass-review-a-grindhouse-serial-killer-flick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-midnight-in-the-switchgrass-review-a-grindhouse-serial-killer-flick\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Midnight in the Switchgrass&#8217; Review: A Grindhouse Serial-Killer Flick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a950e1d9bf\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a950e1d9bf\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-midnight-in-the-switchgrass-review-a-grindhouse-serial-killer-flick\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Midnight_in_the_Switchgrass_Review_A_Grindhouse_Serial-Killer_Flick%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Midnight in the Switchgrass&#8217; Review: A Grindhouse Serial-Killer Flick&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-midnight-in-the-switchgrass-review-a-grindhouse-serial-killer-flick\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Midnight_in_the_Switchgrass_Review_A_Grindhouse_Serial-Killer_Flick%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Midnight in the Switchgrass&#8217; Review: A Grindhouse Serial-Killer Flick&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-midnight-in-the-switchgrass-review-a-grindhouse-serial-killer-flick\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-midnight-in-the-switchgrass-review-a-grindhouse-serial-killer-flick\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Midnight_in_the_Switchgrass_Review_A_Grindhouse_Serial-Killer_Flick%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Midnight in the Switchgrass&#8217; Review: A Grindhouse Serial-Killer Flick&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Midnight_in_the_Switchgrass_Review_A_Grindhouse_Serial-Killer_Flick%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Midnight in the Switchgrass&#8217; Review: A Grindhouse Serial-Killer Flick&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        The serial-killer thriller is a genre that, by now, has used up all its natural resources. It feels like there\u2019s nothing left to discover in it \u2014 which is why last year\u2019s \u201cThe Little Things,\u201d for all its star power and ostensible ambition, seemed to be poking around under rocks we\u2019d all looked under before. Even so, it\u2019s been a while since we\u2019ve had a serial-killer thriller that\u2019s as flagrant a piece of old-school grindhouse sleaze as \u201cMidnight in the Switchgrass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the sort of movie where Megan Fox, as an FBI agent, somehow winds up captured by the killer and tied up with a chain around her neck, so that he can choke her, beat her, and, at one point, nuzzle her. \u201cYou sure are something special,\u201d he says in his redneck pervert drawl; it\u2019s clear that the filmmakers, in their way, agree. (When the killer shoots Fox up with heroin and caresses her as she nods out, on the soundtrack we hear\u2026a romantic serial-killer ballad!) Yet \u201cMidnight in the Switchgrass,\u201d in its born-to-be-on-VOD way, is by no means unwatchable. It\u2019s a functional piece of exploitation \u2014 an efficient little crime-porn snuff-thriller potboiler. It\u2019s like a fast-food meal that makes you think, \u201cOkay, that wasn\u2019t good for me, but I got what I paid for.\u201d A film like this one is a junk-franchise burger: tasty, processed, and basically fake.<\/p>\n<p>It opens (of course) with <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> reports of a missing girl, then gives us a scene (of course) in which a corpse in fishnet stockings is discovered in the Florida switchgrass. It turns out that there\u2019s been a wave of half a dozen unsolved murders in the Pensacola area; all the victims are young women (most of them prostitutes). But while Florida State Officer Byron Crawford, played with an understated sharpness by Emile Hirsch, has been trying to connect the crimes, his bosses now want him off the case. Why? No reason, really, except that it\u2019s a clich\u00e9 of the genre.<\/p>\n<p>There are two other crime fighters on hand: a pair of federal agents, played by Fox and Bruce Willis, who are involved in a sting operation to catch the same killer. Over the last few years, Willis has <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared in a number of low-budget films produced by this movie\u2019s director, Randall Emmett, and taking on those paycheck gigs he has sometimes brought his A <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>, but not this time. In fact, I\u2019ve rarely seen Willis so disconnected to a role. There\u2019s phoning it in, and then there\u2019s what Willis does here \u2014 barely bothering to pick up the phone. Fox, on the other hand, takes a role that awkwardly combines elements of power cop and scream queen and brings a conviction to every moment. And Hirsch nails the role of a smart but small-time Florida lawman, even if the police work here comes down to connecting about three dots.<\/p>\n<p>The best reason to see \u201cMidnight in the Switchgrass\u201d is the performance of Lukas Haas as the killer. His name is Peter Hillborough, and he\u2019s a truck driver with a family, including a young daughter, Bethany (Olive Elise Abercrombie), whom he dotes on. That\u2019s meant to be creepy, and is, but what makes it work is the way Haas compartmentalizes this monster, and in some ways doesn\u2019t. His love for his daughter is walled off from the horrible crimes he commits against young women. Yet there\u2019s a glimmer of overlap \u2014 it\u2019s there in his obsessiveness. Haas has worked steadily in the 36 years since he was the little boy in \u201cWitness\u201d (he played Michael Collins in \u201cFirst Man\u201d), but the roles have often been small-scale, and he pops here more than he has in a while. His look is vivid. Tall, with choppy hair, he\u2019s like an elf with the body of a lumberjack. We see how Peter is kind, at first, to the girls he abducts \u2014 like the one he \u201crescues\u201d from a driver harassing her at a truck stop. But Haas also shows us the place where this killer\u2019s lust meets his rage.<\/p>\n<p>Forensics, offbeat clues emerging from the darkness, the killer\u2019s homicidal cosmology \u2014 the elements that lend serial-killer dramas their intrigue are mostly missing from this one. Emmett goes right back to basics: women tied up in a shed. In this case, the shed is next to Peter\u2019s home, so we can\u2019t help but wonder how it\u2019s supposed to work if one of them starts screaming. \u201cMidnight in the Switchgrass\u201d is the sort of movie in which the killer\u2019s daughter comes up and says, \u201cHey, daddy! Cutting up some wood before dinner?\u201d as he closes the door to the shed just in time. It\u2019s less \u201cThe Silence of the Lambs\u201d than \u201cThe Silence of Anything Approaching Common Sense.\u201d But that, in some trashy way, is all part of the \u201cfun.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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