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A brooding stranger walks into a small Florida town, takes a room at a boarding house and gets a part-time job. Within a day, he starts to have visions, seemingly experiencing someone else’s memories. Then as he is walking home one night, he spies a beautiful young woman in a big plantation home. Fascinated, he introduces himself, and the two begin to fall in love. Mark Atkins’ Night Orchid is classic Southern Gothic storytelling. As the moments unfold between the stranger Clay and his mystery woman Sarah, we have the unsettling feeling that something is wrong--their relationship seems suspended in a time and place other than our own. The more questions Clay asks of the townspeople, the darker the ghosts buried in this town’s past seem to be. Beautifully shot in the eerie orange groves indigenous to South Florida, the film is washed in a rich paint. The moon shines a little brighter, the orange trees twist and turn as though out of a Van Gogh painting, and each element of the design is turned up a notch as the plot rolls toward an ending that will have you on the edge of your seat.


A brooding stranger walks into a small Florida town, takes a room at a boarding house and gets a part-time job. Within a day, he starts to have visions, seemingly experiencing someone else’s memories. Then as he is walking home one night, he spies a beautiful young woman in a big plantation home. Fascinated, he introduces himself, and the two begin to fall in love. *Mark Atkins’ Night Orchid* is classic Southern Gothic storytelling**. As the moments unfold between the stranger Clay and his mystery woman Sarah, we have the unsettling feeling that something is wrong--their relationship seems suspended in a time and place other than our own. The more questions Clay asks of the townspeople, the darker the ghosts buried in this town’s past seem to be. Beautifully shot in the eerie orange groves indigenous to South Florida, the film is washed in a rich paint. The moon shines a little brighter, the orange trees twist and turn as though out of a Van Gogh painting, and each element of the design is turned up a notch as the plot rolls toward an ending that will have you on the edge of your seat.	Click To Enlarge
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