In 2019, Rain Johnson released 'Knives Out', a witty, clever whodunnit that harkened back to the days of Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle. The film was a smash-hit, and spawned a series of sequels that seem to keep getting better.

The most recent edition was 2025's 'Wake Up Dead Man', which has garnered the same amount of critical and audience acclaim as the first in the series. It also owes a great deal to New York's Capital Region.

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The 'Wake Up Dead Man'/Upstate Connection

I was privileged enough to catch a screening of the film in Albany on Thanksgiving Day. While there's dozens of moments in the film that are meant to elicit a reaction from the audience, one piece got the loudest laughs from my theatre. loading...

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