There’s very little familiar about Richard Powell’s demented body-horror short-film FAMILIAR. While ostensibly digging into the Cronenbergian idea of organic rot or a diseased “other” taking control, the short Canadian film chooses to take a much different approach to the idea of an internal struggle – climaxing in an explicit act of self mutilation that is as cathartic as it is horrific. Never has a mid-life crisis been so overwhelmingly bleak. Slickly made on a low-budget, FAMILIAR is anchored by both Richard Powell’s confident hand behind the camera and Robert Nolan’s admirable control in front of it. Nolan is a revelation,
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