JAMIE MARKS IS DEAD started as one of the very first ALL THE DEAD BOYS photo shoots with Colton Haynes. I photographed him as Jamie and had these pictures front and center on my board the entire time I was adapting Christopher Barzak’s beautiful novel (One For Sorrow) into the script that became JAMIE MARKS IS DEAD.

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“Temperate in tone but screaming with subtext, JAMIE MARKS IS DEAD climbs above the glut of supernaturally inclined entertainment by dint of a hushed unease that permeates almost every frame.”

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Set in a wintry upstate New York and based on the 2007 novel by Christopher Barzak, this unconventional horror movie has little blood but atmosphere to spare. And if the narrative leaves a great deal unexplained, Carter Smith’s slow, seductive direction – perfectly paired with Darren Lew’s queasy, washed out photography – grounds the actors in a dreamlike space between past sins and future choices.”

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“Like Tim Hunter’s remarkable RIVERS EDGE (which also revolved around a corpse named Jamie) JAMIE MARKS is a sympathetic observation of teenagers smacking up against mortality. It’s also a movie about two kinds of limbo, one of them obvious and the other suggested by Adam’s inability to choose between Gracie’s pleasuring hands and Jamie’s murmuring mouth.”

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Jeanette Catsoulis

THE NEW YORK TIMES

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The film stars Noah Silver, Cameron Monaghan, Morgan Saylor, Liv Tyler, and Judy Greer.

You can find JAMIE MARKS IS DEAD on Amazon Prime US here. You can also rent or purchase it on most digital platforms.