{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fb6c26745-7a4d-4f94-9978-7b316c0d0c97","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Dark Discussions Podcast \u2013 Episode 458 \u2013 ALONE (2020)","description":"\nThe little film that could.\u00a0 Small, quiet, and unfamiliar films pop up every so often.\u00a0 Some aren\u2019t necessarily original yet they are done so well.\u00a0 And these movies sometimes spread by word of mouth.\u00a0 One film, ALONE (2020) directed by John Hyams, has slowly grown in popularity.\u00a0 One VOD service, iTunes, actually had it lost among their \u201cIndependent\u201d section of films.\u00a0 Now three weeks later, ALONE is in their top 40 horror movies of the month.\n\n\n\nJessica (Jules Willcox) is a young widow who has been living with depression for far too long.\u00a0 Out of the blue, she has decided she\u2019s had enough.\u00a0 She packs up all her belongings and heads out to the Northwest to start anew.\u00a0 While traveling the forested and remote roads, she almost gets in an accident with an SUV. \u00a0After the perpetrator (Marc Menchaca) shows signs of road rage, Jessica finds out that traveling alone may not have been a good thing at all.\n\n\n\nThe movie has had a run outside of VOD too with forty-four screens at drive-ins throughout the states.\u00a0 Directed by John Hyams, off a screenplay by Mattias Olsson, the movie stars Jules Willcox in possibly her first major role along with Marc Menchaca as the stranger.\u00a0 John Hyams, who\u2019s the showrunner of the successful series BLACK SUMMER (2019), joins your co-hosts to answer some further questions they have after doing their review of the movie.\u00a0 The director may even discuss a bit about season 2 of Black Summer.\u00a0\n","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/05fa5594-5405-4f41-8107-7e2c27ab1f63/mast-episode458.jpg"}