Director Evan Marlowe’s “Abruptio” is a horror/sci-fi film that seems destined to become a cult classic.
Several Alfred Hitchcock movies shared a common theme, an innocent man on the run after becoming involved, through no fault of his own, in some sort of precarious situation. The best example is his 1959 masterpiece “North by Northwest,” when advertising executive Roger Thornhill, played by Cary Grant, is sucked into a deadly Cold War spy plot because of mistaken identity.
In “Abruptio” a man named Les Hackel is no Roger Thornhill, no suave Cary Grant.
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