Felt first published by Vérité “My life is a fuckin’ nightmare,” says Amy (the astonishing Amy Everson) in voice-over at the beginning of Jason Toad Road Banker’s Felt, as she sits at home, visibly upset, before donning a one-piece green lizard costume of her own making and venturing out into the street. “Every waking moment, every time I close my eyes,…
Writer/director Adam MacDonald’s Backcountry feature debut begins with a stark contrast. The opening shot is a slow tilt down woodland trees, with the buzzing of flies growing audibly louder, suggestive of something dead on the forest floor, never quite reached by the camera. Next we see Alex (Jeff Roop) emerging from an elevator into an underground…