Dark Tourist (2012)
The Grief Tourist
He Goes to Dark Places...
84 min
JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that might fill the searing, unexplained void within him. Jim obsesses over the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: grief tourism - the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations from work are spent going to grief tourist locations in the lives of different serial killers he is fascinated with. This years obsession is Carl Marznap, a mass murder from New Orleans, Louisiana. But this trip is no ordinary vacation as Jim's rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality deteriorate into a violent despair that will ultimately unlock an unspeakable secret festering within him, bringing The Grief Tourist to it's brutal and shocking finale...
- Release date
- August 23, 2013
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Michael Cudlitz as Jim
- Pruitt Taylor Vince as Carl Marznap
- Melanie Griffith as Betsy
- Bradley Joseph as Manny
- Eddie J. Fernandez as Osvaldo
- Nayo Wallace as Janita
- Waymond Lee as Office Worker
- Suzanne Quast as Iris
- Donna Ponterotto as Gerry
- Linda S. Wong as LA Female Reporter
Crew
- Suri Krishnamma · Director
- Frank John Hughes · Writer
- Zachery Ty Bryan · Producer
- Michael Cudlitz · Producer
- Suzanne DeLaurentiis · Producer
- Frank John Hughes · Producer
- Austin Wintory · Composer
- Ricardo Jacques Gale · Cinematographer
- Justin Guerrieri · Editor
- Lorna Johnson · Casting director
- Dori Zuckerman · Casting director
- Gershom Hyldreth · Production designer