Rose and her husband Tommy are together for the first time Halloween after he returns from his military tour. Things aren’t the same and a fight separates them at haunted hayride, leaving them vulnerable. Hurt is film that portrayed drama well. Rose, Tommy, and her family weren’t the same after losing a mother, being abandoned by a father, and fighting a war. The performances all evoked sympathy and felt real except for Andrew Creer as Tommy. He felt too over the top while the others were grounded in reality. The trauma took the physical form of a masked slasher in the latter half of the film. This part was a bit too formulaic with well-worn tropes. The end scene was odd and metaphorically concludes the situation which didn’t match the rest of the story. Hurt is a flawed but emotionally raw film.
Hurt was screened as party of the Fantasia International Film Festival ’18
