I saw this flick at the NYC Horror Film Festival. When I first heard about it I thought, “A horror film featuring a white rapper? What a crappy idea.” Well, it was great.
“Rapturious” is a white kid with dreadlocks–a talented up and coming rapper–with a nasty drug habit and a really interesting prior existence. We find out in a pre-credit sequence that doesn’t even seem like it belongs in the rest of the film that in the late 1800s he was a notorious serial killer and rapist. The law finally catches up with him and they hang him from a tree. The whole sequence was shot in a real, dusty little ghost town in Arizona, where the buildings still stand. Very creepy, and very dislocating.
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