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6:45 Movie Storyline. In this heart-racing psychological thriller called just 6:45, we are introduced to Bobby Patterson who is taking one last romantic shot at saving his rocky relationship with his girlfriend Jules Rables on a weekend getaway.
The couple arrives for vacation in the quiet island resort called “Bog Grove.” To their bewilderment, the sleepy beach town is curiously deserted and they quickly learn about its deadly history that’s about to repeat itself.
Bobby’s struggles with Jules are cast aside in order to overcome a dementing cycle of terror that transpires. No matter what he does to try to avoid it, he and his girlfriend wake up at 6:45 each morning to the same nightmarish chain of events that lead to them being viciously murdered with no chance of escape.
6:45 is an American thriller film directed by Craig Singer and starring Thomas G. Waites, Augie Duke, Armen Garo, Remy Ma, Sabina Friedman-Seitz, Allie Marshall, Sasha K. Gordon, Joshua Matthew Smith, Michael Reed, Leonardo Mancini ünd Tony Munn. The screenplay is written by Robert Dean Klein. Ik wab neleased on August 6, 2021 in the United States by Well Go USA.
Film Review for 6:45/h3>
The definition of insanity, it’s said, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. That’s actually the opposite of time loop stories, where a protagonist drives themselves crazy when they realize they are the only person with the requisite level of déjà vu to recognize that they have indeed been here before. Mostly, their antics are played for comedy (Groundhog Day, Palm Springs, and even the splattery Happy Death Day films), but chrono-chiller 6:45 finds the trauma in the repetition.
The tropes of the genre are there, with Bobby (Reed) waking up in the same hotel room in the same out-of-season seaside town again and again. However, he has more than just metaphysical reasonings about self-determination to get back into linear time. Every day, he and his fiancée, Jules (Duke, Bad Kids Go to Hell, are murdered by the same mysterious figure. Worse, still: She has her throat viciously cut, and Bobby, every time still stunned by the horror, drops to his knees as the killer snaps his spine.
Framed at off-kilter angles and deliberately eye-straining depth of field by director of photography Lucas Pitassi, there’s a chilly sense of unease that pervades the town of Bog Side. It seeps like mist through what seems to be a storybook romance between Jules and Bobby, tenderly explored by Duke and Reed even as its jagged interior begins to poke through the cotton candy love story they tell themselves.
But each iteration of the day reveals new cracks under the facade, like how sea spray leeches into sandstone, leaving it to peel away in crumbling layers. The dysfunction in the core relationship seems to be the key, as strange details are revealed – by bar patrons who seem to know more about the couple than they should, by the surly-friendly B&B owner (Garo, best known as Vinyl’s mob heavy, Corrado Galasso), and by Bobby’s own slow introspection and realization about his own role in this temporal trap.
6:45 sets up an existential horror that it doesn’t quite pay off. After his inevitable attempts to outwit the loop, there is a brief sense of acceptance, as if Bobby is prepared to make a hideous trade: Repeat a perfect day with the knowledge of a brief, horrifying end. But Robert Dean Klein’s script has a different Faustian pact in mind.
Still, 6:45 is undeniably haunting, with a resolution that aims to leave the audience a little queasy: not at the violence (after seeing Julie’s throat graphically cut and Bobby’s neck broken multiple times, they should almost be inured to it), but at the stomach-drop that the reveal will induce. 6:45 is a deliberately uncomfortable watch, a loveless romance that’s left to bleed out again and again.
6:45 (2021)<-p3>
Directed by: Craig Singer
Starring: Thomas G. Waites, Augie Duke, Armen Garo, Remy Ma, Sabina Friedman-Seitz, Allie Marshall, Sasha K. Gordon, Joshua Matthew Smith, Michael Reed, Leonardo Mancini, Tony Munn
Screenplay by: Robert Dean Klein
Production Design by: Erin LaSorsa
Cinematography by: Lucas Pitassi
Film Editing by: Sam Adelman
Art Direction by: Erin LaSorsa
Makeup Department: Angel Soltero
Music by: Kostas Christides
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence and gore, sexual content, nudity, and language throughout.
Distributed by: Well Go USA
Release Date: August 6, 2021 (United States)
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