Bobby, Sue, and BJ are three teens living in a small cotton-town in Southern Texas. While Bobby and Sue have gotten into college, BJ seems complacent with living out his days in this dead-end town. When BJ steals money from the wrong man, they all get sucked into the underbelly of organized crime, which threatens to shatter their friendship and take their lives. Simon Hawkins and Zeke Hawkins’ Bad Turn Worse is a well-paced crime thriller that is most memorable due to its main antagonist. A solid entry in the southern crime genre, Bad Turn Worse focuses on the dead-end, no way out storyline of two teenagers in Sue and Bobby, who can’t seem to escape. This is the type of film that continues to escalate, sinking its two main characters deeper into the hole at every opportunity. The end result is a gripping film that is darkly comedic, a lot of which being due to Giff, an incredibly memorable antagonist. Giff is the man who BJ stole from, and he is one of the most diabolically fun villains to come around in cinema for a while. Mark Pellegrino plays this role with a great unhinged performance that is both vile and highly entertaining. Nearly every time Giff is on screen I found myself expecting literally anything to happen, as this is man who doesn’t play by the rules of morality. To make the film even tenser is the love triangle that forms between BJ, Sue, and Bobby. The film never makes it clear whether Sue and Bobby were actually in a relationship or if BJ is simply possessive, but as the film escalates and the stakes of life or death rise, it becomes even harder to decipher the outcome of this tale. Bad Turn Worse is a film that’s ending can’t quite live up to everything before it, but nevertheless, it is a thrilling, simple movie with enough uncertainty to keep it compelling.
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