Tar (2020)

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Release Date: Oct 02, 2020
Rated: N/A | Runtime: 96 Mins | Language: English
Director: Aaron Wolf
Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Graham Greene, Aaron Wolf, Emily Peachey, Max Perlich, Nicole Alexandra Shipley, Tiffany Shepis, Stuart Stone, Sandy Danto

Summary

In the murky depths of Los Angeles' world-famous La Brea Tar Pits there lies an ancient secret - a creature that, awakened by underground construction, turns a night of somber packing for Barry Greenwood and his co-workers into a desperate fight for survival.

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What to Expect

Tar is a mixed bag. It gets some things horribly, embarrassingly wrong, but it does some things right.

Acording to Native American folklore, long before Los Angeles was established, natives used the tar from the pits to seal their canoes and craft countless everyday items. However, when members of their tribe were found mysteriously dead in the vicinity, tales of an evil spirit inhabiting the tar pit forbade visits to the pits after sundown.

The La Brea Tar Pit is the only one of these ancient pits not to have been covered over by some portion or another of the city of Los Angeles today, lending a degree of believability to the creature’s existence. Most of the creature effects were accomplished with practical effects rather than CGI.

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Critic Reviews:

Tar, about a creature from the La Brea Tar Pits menacing the inhabitants of an office building, is only occasionally done well.

– The Movie Sleuth

Where there are monsters, there is often death that follows, and the deaths in Tar are quite gruesome.

– Film Threat

The first half as uneventful as it is could be forgiven if the film was actually scary, but it’s nothing more than loud noises in the dark eventually leading to a lot of gore, but with the violence so shrouded in darkness it’s indecipherable most of the time.

– Flickering Myth