Cade: The Tortured Crossing

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Cade: The Tortured Crossing
Cade The Tortured Crossing poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Neil Breen
Written byNeil Breen
Produced byNeil Breen
Starring
  • Neil Breen
  • Judy Lay
  • Gwendolyn Brown
  • Eric Lum
  • Landon Munoz
  • Amy Solomon
  • Nicole Butler
  • Leslie McKinney
  • Jennifer Estrella
  • Daryl Morris
  • Kevon Tyree
  • Talus Night
  • Jeremy Chavez
  • Tommy Lawler
  • Derek Powell
  • Addyson Medley
CinematographyNeil Breen
Edited by
  • John Mastrogiacomo
  • Neil Breen
Music byNeil Breen
Production
companies
Neil Breen Films, LLC
Distributed byNeil Breen Films, LLC
Release dates
  • February 25, 2023 (2023-02-25)(HRIFF)
  • August 8, 2023 (2023-08-08)(Alamo Drafthouse)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Cade: The Tortured Crossing is a 2023 American independent science fiction psychological thriller film directed, produced, scored, edited, and written by Neil Breen. It is the sequel to Twisted Pair (2018). The film had its world premiere on February 25, 2023, during the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival at the Regal Cinemas L.A. Live, by Neil Breen Films, LLC. The film began a public theatrical rollout on July 28, 2023, in Canada, before its domestic debut on August 8, in select Alamo Drafthouse Cinema theaters. The film received negative reviews from critics.

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Plot

Cade Altier donates a large amount of money to an unnamed psychiatric hospital that has fallen into extensive disrepair. The hospital turns out to be a cover for a joint corporate-government plot to engage in human trafficking, as the young patients are kidnapped and their blood is taken for genetic experimentation. Cale also resurfaces, abducting the patients for the experiments before his brother Cade can save them. But Cade has his own plan: he intends to train the patients so that they become mystical warriors. In the end, his plan succeeds in stopping the villain's plot. [1]

Cast

Production

On March 11, 2019, Breen confirmed that a sequel to Twisted Pair was in development. [3] [4] On October 3, 2022, Breen revealed that filming on his latest project had wrapped via his Twitter account. [5] By August 2023, it was revealed that the entire film was shot using green-screens. [6] On December 16, 2022, Breen announced that the film is titled Cade: The Tortured Crossing and would have its world premiere in early 2023, in film festivals. [7] [8] [1] The film stars Breen, Judy Lay, Gwendolyn Brown, Eric Lum, Landon Munoz, Amy Solomon, Nicole Butler, Leslie McKinney, Jennifer Estrella, Daryl Morris, Kevon Tyree, Talus Night, Jeremy Chavez, Tommy Lawler, Derek Powell, and Addyson Medley. [9] [10]

Release

Cade: The Tortured Crossing had its world premiere on February 25, 2023, during the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival at the Regal Cinemas L.A. Live, [11] before its international debut during the Sci-Fi-London film festival at the Prince Charles Cinema on June 1, June 4, July 15, and August 19, 2023. [12] [13] The film began a public theatrical rollout, starting on July 28 in Canada, [14] before releasing in several Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas on August 8 [15] and at the Liberty Hall Cinema in Lawrence, Kansas, on August 19. [16]

Reception

Critical response

Craig Jones, of MovieWeb , gave a negative review of the trailer, saying it is just as "shoddy as Neil Breen's previous films, with terrible green screen effects, acting that the average plank of wood would find embarrassing, and a plot of some description". [1] Jones further elaborated that the film's "crazy fight scenes, laughably poor line readings, and strange directorial choices make for a film that, no matter how numerous its failings, doesn't promise to be dull". [1]

Anton Bitel, of SciFiNow , gave a negative review of the film, writing "it all comes with the dissociative, dislocating feel of a drawn-out dream, or perhaps of a parable of the endless, interdimensional conflict between good and evil". [2] Brian Kirchgessner, of MovieWeb, also gave the film a negative review, summarizing that "the film is simply bizarre; the abysmal green-screen effects and opaque plotting create a dissociative, dreamlike state that would make David Lynch proud". [17]

Sean McGeady, of Paste Magazine , gave the film a negative review, writing "there's a scene in his latest epic in which his character is attacked by a white tiger. The sequence, which sees a sexagenarian quasi-superhero and a janky 3D tiger model engage in a 90-second Greco-Roman knuckle lock until they come to some sort of mutual understanding, is not an anomaly. It is vintage Breen". [18] Rumsey Taylor, of The New York Times , also wrote a negative review for the film, summarizing that Neil Breen "has made five imaginative, bewildering low-budget paranormal thrillers, spurring both ridicule and awe. [In] his sixth film, his singular, if peculiar, vision has remained intact". [19]

Gena Radcliffe, of The Spool, critiqued the film, saying that "what [Neil Breen] is trying to say isn't all that hard to figure out: he thinks the world would be better off without corrupt CEOs and pass-the-buck lawmakers (and hey, I don't disagree). The problem is how he says it, often in the most incomprehensible, startlingly inept way possible. His sixth film, Cade: The Tortured Crossing, is his most baffling yet". [20] Tyler Hummel, of Geeks Under Grace, wrote, in a negative review, "all the hallmarks of Breen movies are here: poor acting, poor staging, awkward direction, lingering shots, and recycled footage. But it is all made worse by the fact that the film is 100% shot in front of green screens". [6]

Accolades

In February 2023, the film won the awards for "Best Fantasy Film" and "People's Choice Award", at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival. [21] [11] [22]

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  2. 1 2 Bitel, Anton (June 17, 2023). "Sci-Fi London: Retrofuturist Sci-Fi, Illegal Experiments and Robots on Day Two of Sci-Fi Festival". SciFiNow . Retrieved June 26, 2023.
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  5. ↑ "Neil Breen announces 100% completion on 6th movie on his official Twitter account". twitter.com. October 3, 2022. Retrieved May 2, 2023.
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  7. ↑ Cade Update Number two December 16 2022, December 16, 2022, retrieved May 2, 2023
  8. ↑ "Here is the website and trailer for my new film: Cade-the tortured crossing. It's my 6th Indie feature film that I've written, produced, directed and self-funded". twitter.com. December 16, 2022. Retrieved May 2, 2023.
  9. ↑ Cade: The Tortured Crossing Official Website
  10. ↑ "Cade: The Tortured Crossing". The A.V. Club . Retrieved May 2, 2023.
  11. 1 2 "Cade: The Tortured Crossing at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival". Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival. Retrieved May 2, 2023.
  12. ↑ Breen, Neil (April 28, 2023). "My film "Cade-the tortured crossing" is an official selection of The Sci-Fi London Film Festival, screening at the Prince Charles Cinema, on June 1st !!!!" . Retrieved May 2, 2023.
  13. ↑ Cade: The Tortured Crossing at the Prince Charles Cinema
  14. ↑ Neil Breen Cade: The Tortured Crossing
  15. ↑ Cade: The Tortured Crossing at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas
  16. ↑ Cade: The Tortured Crossing at Liberty Hall
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  18. ↑ McGeady, Sean (August 30, 2023). "Neil Breen: B Movie Supreme Being". Paste Magazine . Retrieved September 1, 2023.
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  21. ↑ "HRIFF 2023 Award Winners". Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival. Retrieved May 2, 2023.
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