DieRy (2020)

DieRy: Directed by Jennifer Gelfer. With Claudia Maree Mailer, Ciaran Byrne, James Sutorius, Philip Alexander. In a world that objectifies women as swipes on a screen, Marie Clark is determined to use her influencer status to pay for her college degree. But when a psychotic fan starts sending love letters to her home, while murdering the people closest to her, this young brave heroine discovers that the only way to get justice, is by unmasking the killer herself, and confronting the demons of her past.

“u0026quot;DieRyu0026quot; is light horror mystery done with style. Itu0026#39;s mysterious because of its ingeniously set and resolved puzzles. Itu0026#39;s horrific because grisly deaths accumulate. Itu0026#39;s light because it has some of the breeziness of 1990u0026#39;s teen scarefests likeu0026quot; I Know What You Did Last Summer.u0026quot; (No, itu0026#39;s not quite a Hitchcock-lite classic like u0026quot;Charade.u0026quot;) The performances are excellent, most especially lead Claudia Maree Maileru0026#39;s turn both as a vivid millennial beauty plagued by childhood trauma and more recent stalking, Ciaran Byrne as a dynamic PI and screen writer John B. Mailers brief turn channeling father Norman Mailer channeling a redneck. The evocation of Generation X and Y culture with a strong social media dimension will be a kind of comfort food for some viewers and a source of amusing anthropological color for others”