RELENTLESS: Tom Botchii’s Home Invasion Thriller Gets A Brutal Trailer
I watch a lot of trailers. I need to, as someone who watches and reviews a lot of movies, and that’s aside from the general rule that a film’s trailer will determine how it will sell to its preferred audience, and Tom Botchii’s Relentless is no exception.
Of course, I had to double check and so this will be the second time Botchii’s name gets mentioned as well since popping onto my radar in 2018 with serial killer thriller, Artik. The trailer for Relentless is a constant-moving and violent affair, is visually stimuating to look at, and gives me the impression that this is something I definitely would’ve added to my Coming Attractions piece if I were aware of it through its previous title, Syphon.
The film, previously titled Syphon, screened previously at FilmQuest, as well as Grimmfest which supplies the following notes:
Tom Botchii, director of ARTIK, makes a welcome return to Grimmfest with this sour and savage exploration of the corrosive nature of revenge. Taking as its starting point that old ‘first dig two graves’ maxim, the film combines bone-crunchingly brutal high-octane cat-and-mouse vigilante action with a socially-conscious, lucid and timely examination of the ways in which data fraud is anything but a ‘victimless crime’. Gradually filling in the two protagonists’ respective backstories as the narrative progresses, Botchii plays around with viewer sympathies in deft and sneaky fashion, until it becomes increasingly uncertain who to root for, even as the confrontations grow ever more gruellingly violent and extreme, building to a final all-out pitched battle that nobody is going to walk away from unscathed.
Saban acquired the rights to the film several months earlier. Botchii directs from his own script a cast that lists Jeffery Decker, and Shuhei Kinoshita
Relentless arrives on digital to rent or own beginning January 9. Watch the new trailer from ComingSoon.net:
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