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Downeast (2021)
Hilarious, funniest thing I've seen in years.
This movie tries so hard to pass Portland off as "the Downeast" and fails so miserably that I can't help but laugh. It also seems to think that smuggling and selling heroin is some kind of big mafia-run operation along the coast when in reality that kind of stuff usually either comes across the border from Canada via air drops or up I-95 from points south (mostly Massachusetts and New York). Heroin isn't even that big in the Downeast, they're way more into pills and crystal meth out that way. This movie basically muddles up Lewiston, Bangor, Portland, the concept of lobstermen, and The Departed into some flatlander's idiotic idea of "the Downeast." Also the only actor who can pull off a Maine accent is Kirk Fox, and he's from California.
Butterfly Kisses (2018)
Just watch Marble Hornets instead
Butterfly Kisses steals a lot of ideas from a small handful of sources, but none more prominently than Marble Hornets. For those who don't know, MH was an influential unfiction/ARG web series that ran from 2009 to 2014 and was inspired by the "Slender Man" creepypasta shortly after it originated on the Something Awful forums. Almost every aspect of Butterfly Kisses was lifted directly from MH to such a shameless degree (right down to the "scratch"logo that adorns some of its press materials), I wouldn't blame Troy Wagner and his crew for suing them.