‘Every Heavy Thing’ Trailer – Barbara Crampton Stars in Mickey Reece’s Pitch Black Comedy

Fresh off the film’s premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival last night, the official trailer has arrived for Mickey Reece’s (Climate of the Hunter) genre-bending film Every Heavy Thing.

Horror legend Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, Suitable Flesh) is part of a cast including Vera Drew, John Ennis, Josh Fadem, Tipper Newton, and James Urbaniak.

Fantasia previews, “Mickey Reece’s distinctively absurdist humour has long left its imprint on Fantasia audiences through cult favourites like Country Gold, Agnes and Climate of the Hunter. With his latest feature, Reece returns with a pitch-black comedy set against the unsettling backdrop of a string of disappearances, with local women vanishing without a trace.

“The film follows Josh Fadem as Joe, an unassuming office worker at an online periodical who becomes entangled in a conspiracy after witnessing a murder. As a colleague begins to investigate, Joe struggles to conceal the truth, as his carefully constructed life falls apart. Reece crafts a love letter to Oklahoma once again, walking a fine line between thriller and comedy, amplifying the mood of paranoia in this offbeat take on the classic trope of the ordinary man pulled into extraordinary circumstances.”

“Embracing lo-fi aesthetics,” the Fantasia Film Festival’s official preview continues, “Reece paints a portrait of America’s commercial underbelly in an ironic yet affectionate exploration of a world where every interaction seems governed by transaction.”

Every Heavy Thing will have an encore screening at Fantasia on Wednesday, July 23.