Ferryman Features, Reviews Film Threat
Writer-director Darren Bender’s eerie romantic thriller Ferryman combines emotional trauma with bizarre circumstances. It follows two young lovers, Ash (Oliver Lee) and Eve (Carli Fish), who are knowingly destined for a tragic ending together. Still, the two try to defy the odds against them. It’s weird and a little twisted, with a ton of running. However, the catch between Ash and Eve is a bizarre secret club that dispatches a ferryman for those wanting to die without having to stay sick or in pain. Ferryman starts with a man in a wheelchair who is witness to an older woman clutching a doll in her suicide. It’s not clear what is happening, but it is obvious there’s a great deal of unhappiness at play. As a soldier on leave, Ash is seeking a place to stay as he is visiting friends, comrades, and so-called family that does not want him. He is haunted by combat, suffering from PTSD with shakes and other symptoms. When he calls on his combat friend Sparx (Clint Dyer), the man in the wheelchair, it becomes clear something else is going on.
Once Ash finds his friend dead in bed with a plastic bag over his head, he manages to keep going like he has in combat. But when he meets Eve, he cannot let her go. She faces her own battle with terminal illness. However, Ash hangs tough and becomes intertwined in Eve’s ferryman meetings, learning that it’s a chain of people moving from one death to another. Ambushing Eve’s ferryman sets her into a tailspin, but Ash still hangs on even when her mother forces him out. Ash continues to keep Eve from attempting suicide by filling out her life, but is it enough to keep the Ferryman away? Ferryman is a great title and, when said in a British accent, has a luring enticement of something unknown and unusual that draws one in. The moody music that accompanies the mention of the words throughout perfectly lays out the tone. Eve’s character becomes loveable even though she is sick and difficult, changing the film from thriller to romance. But she refuses to give up her membership to the ferryman club.