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SUNDANCE REVIEW: Experimental Horror Flick 'The Oregonian' Fails to Grab Audience

9:29 PM PST 1/29/2011 by John DeFore

Lindsay Pulsipher stars as an unnamed woman in Calvin Lee Reeder's confusing -- and ridiculous -- venture that goes downhill quickly.

PARK CITY — Sundance Film Festival, Park City at Midnight — A would-be experimental horror film that earns more giggles than gasps, The Oregonian starts off as an exercise in lead-footed David Lynch mimicry and heads downhill quickly. If it ever surfaces on video, the only viewers who will be impressed are those who've seen so little of the avant garde that its non-sequitur atrocities look like innovations.

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