M30 Oxy is yet another Indie movie, directed by Wesley Mullins,and starring the great Leanne Johnson. The film is set in Kentucky, rural Appalachia, which is a sad area that is saddled with multiple epidemics.

It is not uncommon for creators of all sorts to become disgusted with their own most successful works. Joker: Folie à Deux, the utterly joyless follow-up to Todd Phillips’s 2019 smash hit Joker, is the most egregious example I’ve ever seen of this phenomenon

In the grand universe of horror/mystery tropes, the most hoary and venerable must be: Start it with an old dude hanging himself. The viewer is instantly gripped: why-oh-why did this dignified gentleman find it necessary to end himself?

Here’s the deal:  if there is a god, or supreme being or higher power as our friends in AA say, he enjoys a personal hatred for me. Why? I do not know, nor can I imagine.