Cory Knauf Movies
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, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rebekah Isaacs, MacKenzie Firgens, (more)
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, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Cory Knauf, Samuel Child, (more)
- 2009
A man learns too well that one shouldn't promise more than they can actually deliver in this independent thriller. Charlie (Joseph McKelheer) lives in Alaska with his wife Rebecca (Jessica Ward) and young son James (Ben Loosli). Charlie makes a modest living as a preacher and faith healer, but he's come to question his faith, and tries to dull the pain of doubt with alcohol and affairs with other women. Charlie's life is turned upside down when Rebecca and James are brutally murdered; six months later, he's living in isolation in a trailer in the wilderness, having turned his back on his old life and given up on religion. Charlie receives an unexpected visitor in Sarah (Courtney Halverson), a lovely young woman who tells him her father is severely ill and could use his help. Against his better judgment, Charlie agrees to join Sarah for the long trip back to her family's home, but when they arrive, her brothers Luke (Cory Knauf) and Tim (Hallock Beals) make it clear they have some unpleasant business with Charlie. Directed by Robert Saitzyk, Godspeed received its world premiere at the 2009 CineVegas Film Festival, where it received a prize for "Exceptional Artistic Achievement." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
