SF IndieFest: Sequence Break

The story of boy meets girl, boy ignores girl for arcade game, arcade game has sex with boy, arcade game has sex with girl, boy…. well, I don’t want to ruin it. But seriously, there is some weird shoit that goes down in this film. Chase Williamson (BEYOND THE GATES, JOHN DIES AT THE END) stars as Oz, a loner who excels at rebuilding and restoring ’80s arcade games. The shop that has served as the focal point is about to close and Oz has basically done nothing with his life, and has next to no human interaction. Then Tess (Fabianne Theresa, SOUTHBOUND, JOHN DIES AT THE END) comes into the shop and everything changes. Oh, her and the mysterious game that arrives without any instructions or provenance. Just as Oz and Tess’s romance flourishes, so does his obsession with the cryptic game. As Oz plays, he feels himself drawn more and more into the images flashing across the screen, in an almost sexual way. No, it’s not almost. This is man/machine carnal contact of the Cronenbergian kind.