Cure for the Crash
Synopsis
When a teenage boy discovers a dark secret haunting his small town, he is faced with the decision to keep it to himself or expose it, knowing that he might risk losing his family’s business, friendships, and his first love.
Set against the grisly backdrop of the shocking Tri-State Crematory scandal in rural Georgia (for those who don’t recall: bodies were being dumped in the woods instead of being cremated), Sahkanaga is a coming-of-age drama that is at once seemingly fresh and also a throwback to the Southern Gothic fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Carson McCullers.
Shot near the site of the events that inspired the story and employing untrained actors from the area, the film possesses a rare (and creepy) authenticity. Director John Henry Summerour captures the rural South like few other filmmakers have.
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