The Man in the Silo’s setting could be any time in the last 30 years as there is little on show to date it, but once Wells reaches home it is like he has stepped into the ’50s or earlier- right into Hitchcock’s era. Then they take on a sepia tone during the night scenes at home. In addition, Dian Bachar ( Orgazmo 1997, BASEketball 1998) appear as frosty as his co-workers’ glares portraying David.
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The daytime scenes are done in a cool white, blue, and grey palette that makes everything look cold and sterile – where even attempts at warm sympathy by Wells’ bosses Kevin (William Zabka: The Karate Kid 1984, Back to School 1986) and Randy (Ron Gilbert: The Usual Suspects 1995, Jack Squared 2013) fail.
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Another example of refreshing an older look is through the visuals done by Rhythm and Hues. Recently available on Amazon Prime and Google Play as of April 2017 via Indie Rights, The Man in the Silo cites itself as a neo-noir dramatic Thriller, aiming for Alfred Hitchcock with its use of Bernard Hermann’s score for 1958’s Vertigo throughout the film, though it is a fresh performance done by Joel McNeely and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra instead of reusing the original tracks. The film paid off for them in getting an award at the Texas Black Film Festival, and appearing at the Langston Hughes Film Festival and Black Harvest Film Festival, but is it for more people than the arthouse crowd?
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It tells the tale of Marcus Wells (Ernie Hudson: Ghostbusters 1984, The Crow 1994), a businessman who finds himself within an old grain silo near a farmhouse, and struggles to remember how he ended up there, rediscovering some old, buried secrets along the way. The Broken Museum 2007), who helped write, adapt, and put this film together with the use of Steadicam, dolly shots, and some nice visual effects.
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Nonetheless, Ordower had help from regular collaborators Phil Donlon ( Wrestled 2003, A Series of Small Things), Writers Daniel Yelovich and Charles Plath ( Kinyarwanda 2011), and Writer and Playwright Christopher E.