MacKenzie Firgens Movies

True-life drama blends with cinematic romance when a lovelorn filmmaker attempts to win back his crush by recreating their fleeting romance on film. Adam and Kate only shared one night of passion together, but that was enough to make Adam fall head over heels in love. When Adam attempts to recapture that magical moment on film, Kate decides she's had enough of the relationship, and walks out on the production. Desperate, Adam searches San Francisco for another actress who can take Kate's place. But in the process of attempting to make their film, Adam and his crew realize that their interpretation of the past is far more interesting than the hard facts. Over the course of the following months the film took on a life of its own, gradually morphing into something far more honest and personal than Adam could have ever anticipated. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores (aka the Butcher Brothers) break big on the horror scene with this low-budget frightener concerning a picture-perfect suburban family who harbors a particularly dark secret. When their parents are killed in a tragic accident, eldest Hamilton sibling David (Samuel Child) relocates the surviving family members to a quiet California suburb and assumes the responsibility of caring for his orphaned siblings Wendell (Joseph McKelheer), Darlene (Mackenzie Firgens), and Francis (Cory Knauf). While twins Wendell and Darlene seem to share a bizarre bond that separates them from the rest of the siblings, Francis acquires a video camera that previously belonged to his deceased parents and sets out preparing a school project about his family. As the all-seeing lens of Francis' roving camera begins to reveal that something malevolent is going on inside the Hamilton's picturesque abode and his reluctant siblings find their decidedly unconventional existence suddenly threatened, the youngest sibling is forced to choose between following his family into a murderous tradition or sparing the lives of future victims by betraying the only people who ever seemed to care for him. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

A typical high school senior's friendship with a newly arrived transfer student finds the daydreaming graduate-to-be facing an impossible evil in a sinister tale of teenage terror from director Daniel Hess. Stacy is a hard-partying senior who somehow tolerates her boring classes just long enough to get through the week and cut loose with her best friends when the weekend rolls around. At first striking up a casual friendship with new student Christina, Stacy soon begins to ponder her new pal's mental stability when Christina's behavior begins to border on obsessive. There's something much more malevolent that's coming between the pair than intense emotions though, and when one of the most popular students in the school goes missing and Stacy makes the startling discovery that something evil has followed Christina from her former home, she comes into contact with a formidable force of evil that may be using the troubled transfer student to spread it's influence to a whole new town. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Following other indie films about the kinetic, drug-saturated rave culture such as Go (1999) and Human Traffic (1999) comes this ensemble movie, set in San Francisco. At the film's opening, the main characters are introduced at breakneck speed, including Leyla (Lola Glaudini) who recently arrived from New York, Neo-hippie Harmony (MacKenzie Firgens), who is celebrating her birthday with her boyfriend Colin (Denny Kirkwood), and Colin's nerdy brother David (Hamish Linklater), who would much rather read than rave. As the film charts David's first taste of chemically-induced ecstasy and his budding romance with Leyla, who serves as his trip guide, it also includes a small vignette of the tattoo and piercing set, including blissed-out drug dealers and their attempts at scamming on chicks, a skinhead looking for trouble, and a gay couple who just can't quite figure out where the blasted rave is. This film was screened at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi