Suspended Animation (2001)

User Rating:

5.0/10   

Director:

John D. Hancock

Writer:

Dorothy Tristan (writer)

Release Date:

25 December 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller

Tagline:

Will Chill You To The Bone

Plot:

Animator Thomas Kempton gets more than he bargained for when a snowmobile trip turns to terror in the wilds of Northern Michigan...

Plot Keywords:

Murder | Suspense | Severed Finger | Wheelchair | Independent Film

Cast

Alex McArthur	...	Tom Kempton
Laura Esterman	...	Vanessa Boulette
Sage Allen	...	Ann Boulette
Rebecca Harrell	...	Hilary Kempton
Fred Meyers	...	Sandor Hansen
Maria Cina	...	Clara Hansen
Jeff Puckett	...	Cliff Modjeska
Daniel Riordan	...	Jack Starr
J.E. Freeman	...	Philip Boulette
Sean Patrick Murphy	...	Fred Phelps
Daniel Mooney	...	Arnold Mann
Gary J. Mion	...	Sheriff Montaigne
Joe Forbrich	...	Production Manager
Robert Breuler	...	Dr. Leo Sagan
Denise Bohn	...	Correspondence 1
Faith Marie	...	Correspondence 2 (as Faith Krycka)
Mike McCalmet	...	Joe Moss
Andrew Tallackson	...	Production Designer
Glenn Hutchinson	...	Bar Customer
Laurene Franklin	...	Vanessa Double
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Lu Johnson	...	FBI Crime Scene Agent
Kelly Daisy	...	Premier Attendee (uncredited)

Directed by
John D. Hancock

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Dorothy Tristan		writer

Produced by
John D. Hancock	....	producer
Robert J. Hiler	....	producer
Dean Jacobson	....	co-producer
Ken Kitch	....	co-producer
Carey Westberg	....	co-executive producer

Original Music by
Angelo Badalamenti

Cinematography by
Misha Suslov

Film Editing by
Christopher J. Brown
Dennis M. O'Connor

Casting by
Rosemary Welden

Production Design by
Don Jacobson

Art Direction by
Brian H. Adams

Set Decoration by
Kathy Glesser
Shellee Wells

Costume Design by
Richard E. Donnelly

Makeup Department
Victor Cao	....	special makeup effects artist
Jeni Zaharian	....	key makeup artist
James Lacey	....	makeup artist (uncredited)

Production Management
Margaret Clifford	....	production manager
Paul Marcus	....	unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Anthony Aguilera	....	first assistant director
Christopher Schaefer	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Amber Bloss	....	scenic painter
Merje Carroll	....	property master
Phil Gallagher	....	carpenter
Tyler Marshall	....	construction coordinator
Brennan M. Stanford	....	carpenter
Michael Whicker	....	carpenter

Sound Department
Gary Alexander	....	supervising sound re-recording mixer
Kevin Becker	....	boom operator
John Paul Biciunas	....	sound apprentice
Markus Innocenti	....	foley editor
Rod O'Brien	....	supervising sound editor
Alex Riordan	....	sound mixer
Don White	....	sound premixer

Stunts
Tobiasz Daszkiewicz	....	stunts
Glory Fioramonti	....	stunt double
Laurene Franklin	....	stunt double: Laura Esterman
Rick Le Fevour	....	stunt coordinator (as Rick LeFevour)
Tom Lowell	....	stunt performer
Deborah L. Mazor	....	stunts
Linda Perlin	....	stunt double
Randy Popplewell	....	stunt double

Camera and Electrical Department
Jim Adkins	....	camera operator: "b" camera
Jim Adkins	....	first assistant camera
Jonathan Adler	....	camera intern
Jennifer Biver	....	first assistant camera: "a" and "b" camera
Jake Delman	....	second assistant camera: "a" and "b" camera
Joseph Farris	....	best boy electric
Brian Galla	....	camera intern
Andrew Lemon	....	high definition video engineer
Kyle T. MacDowell	....	key grip
Peter Picchietti	....	camera operator: "a" camera
Peter Picchietti	....	second assistant camera
Richard Sobin	....	camera operator: "a" camera
Richard Sobin	....	first assistant camera

Casting Department
Susan Willett	....	casting consultant

Music Department
Chris Ussery	....	music supervisor

Other crew
Beth Behler	....	assistant to director
Margaret Clifford	....	production coordinator
Don Corthier	....	body double
Carl Krentz	....	location supervisor
Erin Lutterbach	....	location manager
Faith Marie	....	production coordinator

Thanks
Kelly Daisy	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Filmacres

Distributors

• First Run Features (2003) (USA) (theatrical)
• M.I.B. (2004) (Germany) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  camera dollies

Also Known As:

Mayhem (Australia) (DVD title)

Runtime:

114 min (Hamptons Film Festival)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Singapore:M18 | Germany:18 | Australia:MA

Company:

Filmacres

Movie Connections:

References The Lion King (1994)

30 years after "Let's Scare Jessica To Death"......

John D. Hancock made this film about 30 years after "Let's Scare Jessica To Death", and yet, he hasn't exactly lost his touch. This is rather long (almost 2 hours) but I didn't lose my interest. Tom Kempton is an artist, who draws for animated films, and when his work is getting to him, he takes off for a snowmobiling trip in the great white north somewhere, where he strays away from his two buddies and runs afoul of a couple of weird sisters living in a cabin. They drug him and are ready to butcher him, being that they're cannibals, when his buddies figure out what's up and come to the rescue. One is killed during the escape and both sisters are killed. There's a big to-do on the news, etc. and then life goes on. Now, Tom is a bit on the obsessive side, and talks to the brother of the two sisters, who is in prison, and finds out there was a daughter, who was given up for adoption at age 7, and that she lives somewhere in the area in which HE lives, in California. He does manage to find her and talk her into posing for him, but I wasn't really clear if there was any motive for this other than to find out what she was like. Seems she has a 15 year old son too, who not only beats her, but seems to be carrying on a family heritage up in the hills near their home. There are several twists and turns to this, and there are times where you think it's coming to a close but it moves on to another phase. The last phase is, of course, that someone thought to be dead isn't, and comes to visit. This is a cool little film, and will keep you wondering almost right up until the end. A decent effort although probably in my mind, nothing will ever live up to "Let's Scare Jessica To Death", which is one of my all time favorites. 8 out of 10.