The Ante is a movie where a man (sales man I think, it is never really established other than he traveled for work and worked at a quarry) makes a wrong turn. I want to say that the movie is set in Maine, not sure but I thought that the license plate of one of the cars was a Maine plate but was an older plate without the lobster (lobstah if your from there) on it. So this guy makes a wrong turn and ends up at a farm where a woman holding a turkey and a knife talks to wrong turn guy. He ask’s for directions and she helps by looking at a map, but then “accidentally” cuts wrong turn guy down his whole forearm. She says she can help him clean up in the house be he has to first take his shoes off because she just cleaned the floors. So turkey knife lady and wrong turn guy are in the bathroom when turkey knife lady says she needs a clean rag, she leaves and shuts the door. Behind the door Wrong turn guy can hear shouting then a scuffle, then nothing. He tries the door and it is locked. Smartly, he removes himself from the bathroom and looks around the house, first there is a dead dog on the floor, he looks some more and finds a dead dude in the basement, presumably turkey knife lady’s husband. Wrong turn guy freaks runs up stairs put his shoes on and leaves. I think this is when he figures out that he has turned from wrong turn guy into I’ve been framed guy and is proven right when he sees the blood on the bottom of his shoes, finds the a bloody knife in his car and, oh ya, the turkey knife lady is in the trunk yelling and screaming.
Most of the descriptions I have seen for this movie have put this in a dark comedy genre. The movie is dark, and there are some moments where there is a laugh to be had, but I would not say this is comedy but awkward laughter at the situation that the guy put himself into, his wife that pushes him into doing things that he knows is wrong and the woman who desperately wanted her husband dead enough to frame a stranger. I did not expect much from this film due to never hearing about it, never heard of anyone in the cast or even anyone in the entire credits. What I found was a low-budget, low produced film that I found I enjoyed. A lot of the camera work is done while the character is driving or in the car. There are some creative camera shots done because of all the car and driving scenes, also there is not a lot of dialogue, so it can be tough to keep interest when there is a lot of driving and there is a lack verbal communication or interaction between the roles.
Again I think this was set in Maine, there was a lot of corn fields, and the main actor and actress seemed to have an accent (one also had a Russian accent but that has nothing to do with Maine). I also feel that the woman could have been a typical Mainer (Maine-iac) because of her demeanor, she was tough and not afraid to get her hands dirty.
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