Crush the Skull

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Crush the Skull
Directed byViet Nguyen
Written by Chris Dinh
Viet Nguyen
Produced by Aya Tanimura
Jimmy Tsai
Starring
CinematographyTuan Quoc Le
John Reyes-Nguyen
Edited byViet Nguyen
Music byDavid Frank Long
Production
companies
Cherry Sky Films
Ninja Crush
Distributed byBreaking Glass Pictures
Release dates
  • 11 June 2015 (2015-06-11)(Los Angeles Film Festival)
  • 13 May 2016 (2016-05-13)(United States)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Crush the Skull is a 2015 American comedy horror-thriller film directed by Viet Nguyen, starring Chris Dinh, Katie Savoy, Chris Riedell, Tim Chiou, Lauren Reeder and Walter Michael Bost.

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Cast

Release

The film premiered at the 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival, where it won the Nightfall Award. [1]

Reception

Martin Tsai of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film is "Easily the most thrilling thriller in recent memory", and that it "recalls the snappy meta horrors of the mid-1990s almost as though the glut of formulaic straight-to-VOD throwaways circa the mid-2000s never happened." [2]

Timothy Tau of IndieWire gave the film a rating of "B+" and wrote, "Extremely entertaining and well-crafted, Crush The Skull promises a bright future in genre films for Nguyen." [1]

Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that despite the film's "formulaic and derivative aspects" and the "overzealous camerawork that is far more busy than effective", it is "fun at times, thanks to the frequently witty dialogue delivered by the performers in deadpan fashion." [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Tau, Timothy (18 June 2015). "LAFF Review: Viet Nguyen's Award Winning 'Crush The Skull' Is A Bone Chillingly Good Time Full Of Laughs and Thrills". IndieWire . Retrieved 3 October 2023.
  2. Tsai, Martin (12 May 2016). "Review: Thrilling 'Crush the Skull' never lets up". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 3 October 2023.
  3. Scheck, Frank (16 May 2016). "'Crush the Skull': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 3 October 2023.