Blackout (2023) on Netflix
Charley Barrett paints and drinks heavily in a small upstate town. He fears a werewolf is behind the gaps in his memory, and he pulls away from the people he loves.
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- Netflix3.2/5
- IMDb5.1/10934 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes75%
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Plot summary
Charley Barrett is an artist in a small town in upstate New York. He has become a werewolf, and he lives with alcoholism and depression alongside that. He knows the full moon will keep bringing killings unless he is stopped, so he sets out to find closure among the town's residents. Those he visits include Sharon Hammond, his former girlfriend, and Pastor Francis. The town is divided, its residents lined up on opposing sides of a local anti-immigrant argument. Images from nights he cannot fully recall surface in the paintings he makes. He has pulled back from the people he cares about and keeps to himself.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Blackout (2023)
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- To prepare for the role of the werewolf Charley Barrett, Alex Hurt watched "every Lon Chaney [Jr.] movie multiple times" and ran "seven to 10 miles a day" to lose weight.
- Blackout's filming was largely paid for by tax incentives from Fessenden's previous film Depraved, which took several years to arrive.
- The film was shot near Woodstock, New York, within two miles of director Larry Fessenden's home, letting him make handshake deals with locals to use their locations and shoot much cheaper.
- The paintings seen in the film were made by Brooklyn artist John Mitchell, who had invited Fessenden to sit for a portrait; while painting it they discussed their shared interest in werewolf iconography, and Fessenden decided to make the protagonist an artist.
- Blackout's script was adapted from an episode Fessenden wrote and produced for his 1930s-radio-inspired horror podcast Tales From Beyond the Pale, after an idea that began as an unproduced pitch for a segment in one of the V/H/S films.
