Check Out the Trailer

If there are awards for cutting trailers than the editor of the SURVEILLANCE trailer should win Best Polishing of a Turd award. He or she shows more understanding of filmic storytelling in a few minutes of clips than director Jennifer Lynch shows in an hour and half. She hasn’t directed a film since the laughably terrible BOXING HELENA. She has actually made a less entertaining film than that disaster.

A grizzly murder starts off the film. FBI agents Sam Hallaway (Bill Pullman, SPACEBALLS) and Elizabeth Anderson (Julia Ormond, THE FIRST KNIGHT) arrive at the small town police station where the only survivors of the killing spree are being held. Capt. Billings (Michael Ironside, TOTAL RECALL) and his bumbling officers, Degrasso (Gill Gayle, TV’s DEADWOOD) and Wright (Charlie Newmark, 1990’s LORD OF THE FLIES), haven’t even questioned the witnesses yet. Officer Jack Bennett (Kent Harper) is blooded and beaten and very defensive. Bobbi Prescott (Pell James, ZODIAC) is a drug addict with a lot to hide. Stephanie (Ryan Simpkins, A SINGLE MAN) is a perceptive little girl who has just lost her whole family.
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