Adam Rehmeier

Carolina Caroline

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Caroline and Oliver face to face

If you’re not familiar with the work of Adam Rehmeier, he made the harrowing The Bunny Game as a feature debut, later following up with Dinner in America, another distinctive, idiosyncratic film. Carolina Caroline is neither of those, in mood or intention. Instead it is a down-the-line crime drama seemingly designed to show Hollywood that Rehmeier can play quirk-free. It’s a Bonnie and Clyde kind of thing, with the emphasis firmly on the female party, a smart, hot young woman in a small nowhere town who one day realises a grift is taking place under her nose – a passing motorist is pulling it on the owner of the gas station where she works. … Read more

The Bunny Game

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Close up of Bunny with cigarette

It’s unlikely you will ever have seen anything like The Bunny Game before, or will want to again. A film too strong and dark for many tastes, it’s undeniably brilliant at what it does. But couldn’t it do it elsewhere? Facetiousness to one side, The Bunny Game gets the thumbs up from the likes of horror sage Eli Roth, who loves it, and the thumbs down from the UK’s British Board of Film Classification, which refused to give it a certificate. The BBFC thought the film likely to “risk harm to individuals” (a line from its guidelines) due to its focus on “the unremitting sexual and physical abuse of a helpless woman” (a … Read more

Dinner in America

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Patty and Simon

Dinner in America starts raucously, in shock joke territory, and ends up as a tender love story. In scene one a zonked-out woman taking part in a drugs trial is gesturing lasciviously towards a fellow trial member, fingering the sliced meat on her plate of food in a clear “fuck me” invitation. He’s spraying puke across the formica by the way. By the finale, the territory has shifted into the domestic and the lovey-dovey though writer/director Adam Rehmeier has cleverly managed to keep the overall tone more or less the same. This is your 1990s grunge superdweeb comedy revisited, with everyone a relation at various removes from the dramatis personae of Superbad or … Read more