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Your Next Viewing: HARPOON (2019)

Have you ever looked at someone in your life and wondered why you were friends with them? Besides laughing out loud, this thought crossed my mind while I watched Richie, Jonah, and Sasha interact. In fact, the film opens with Aristotle’s explanation of types of friendship. Rob Grant’s Harpoon is labeled as a comedy/horror and it delivers on both. Well, if I’m being honest, I laughed more than anything and wondered why these three amusing jerks were still friends. So what is it about? Here is the summary from the press release: Rivalries, dark secrets, and sexual tension emerge when three best friends find themselves stranded on a yacht in the middle of the ocean desperate for survival. With plenty of alcohol and very little food and water, emotions run high and their delusions become a reality. As the days stretch on and death seems inevitable, their terrifying truths float […]

HARPOON: Best Friends Become Unhinged In The Official Trailer For Rob Grant’s New Horror Thriller

Lee B. Golden III

Rob Grant’s new film, Harpoon, was a terrific add to the summer’s roster during my debut Fantasia Festival coverage from home. My review is still up for grabs, but I’ll just say here and now that this project is one of the more limber, energetic titles of the high seas suspense genre with Munro Chambers in one of two impressive performances making the rounds this year – Jovanka Vukovic’s Riot Girls being the other. Rivalries, dark secrets, and sexual tension emerge when three best friends find themselves stranded on a yacht in the middle of the ocean desperate for survival. With plenty of alcohol and very little food and water, emotions run high and their delusions become a reality. As the days stretch on and death seems inevitable, their terrifying truths float to the surface. Chambers is joined by Christopher Gray and Emily Tyra for Epic Pictures Group now readying […]

Fantasia Review: In Rob Grant’s HARPOON, A Boatload Of Long-Begotten Baggage And Bloodthirsty Betrayal

Lee B. Golden III

While most small-scale high-seas thrillers I’ve watched in recent years turned out to be a little too pedestrian for my tastes, Rob Grant’s own Harpoon proves itself a cut above others. Turbo Kid and Knuckleball star Munro Chambers has become one of the most upstanding performers in film today and he’s joined by an equally livening cast with Christopher Gray and Emily Tyra. Actor Brett Gelman paints a vivid overture that coalesces with a sheer burst of violence as Richard (Gray) suddenly attacks Jonah (Chambers) in his own home with Richard’s girlfriend Sasha (Tyra) stepping into mitigate. Upon being gifted a harpoon for his birthday, fallout over the incident ensues with Jonah and Sasha downplaying Richard’s notions of infidelity between them, and Richard looking to make amends in part with all three spending the day on his family’s yacht. The three eventually, seemingly settle the score with Richard letting Jonah […]