The movie: Funded through a successful crowdfunding campaign, Blue Ruin tells the story of Dwight (Macon Blair) a vagrant who returns to his home town to exact revenge on the man who murdered his parents. His assassin skills leave something to be desired, and before long his family finds themselves in danger as the violence begins to escalate. What makes it a potential cult classic: Revenge thrillers are ten a penny and often mired in cliche; where Blue Ruin succeeds - and what is likely to make it such an enduring cult classic - is in its anti-vengeance approach to the conflict. Where most revenge thrillers culminate in a feeling of catharsis, Blue Ruin flips it on its head and delivers a thoughtful variation on the genre, with wish fulfillment fantasy giving way to an almost melancholic realism.
