Watching James Cullen Bressack’s HATE CRIME is a thoroughly unpleasant experience, and that’s by design. As the title implies, it’s an extremely hateful film – full of racial slurs, emotional trauma and sexual violence; and it’s obviously designed to provoke a strong negative response in the audience. The found footage element – as is often the case – is occasionally gimmicky, but also a way of putting the audience directly in the middle of the consistently reprehensible actions of the antagonists. Like the terrified family, you want to look away but you can’t. The hysteria can’t possibly sustain itself for
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