Archive for August, 2011  Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour
Starring Rissa Walters, Brian Comrie, Dan Comrie, Rusty Hanes
Jane Harris                    Written by John Comrie and Lisa
Comrie                    From a story by John Comrie
 Directed by Lisa Comrie  Who’s Sarah Landon (Walters)? She’s a
not-very-interesting teenage girl whose lifelong best friend
Megan was recently killed by a drunk driver, a fact that is the
extent of her backstory and that prompts her reluctant visit to
Megan’s grandmother, Thelma Shaw (Harris).  On her way to the
small town where Thelma lives, Sarah suffers car trouble. This
is worth some discussion. In most supernatural stories where the
car breaks down and strands a female protagonist somewhere, it
is somewhere dangerous, somewhere apart from the safety of her
destination. See, for instance, PSYCHO, or any number of haunted
house stories.  You would think that Sarah’s breakdown occurs
just because this is supposed to be a spooky story and that’s
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