![]() ![]() James Gallanders plays Ashley's father Mike Reeves in the film. ![]() Jennie Garth stars in 'Left For Dead: The Ashley Reeves Story' (Getty Images) Her other notable role, other than her work on the Beverly Hills franchise has been as Val Tyler on the show 'What I Like About You'. Garth has also starred in several made-for-TV movies some of which she has produced and directed herself. Garth is, of course, best known for playing Kelly Taylor on 'Beverly Hills 90210'. Jennie Garth plays Michelle Reeves, Ashley Reeves' distraught mother who has to help her daughter get her life back to normal, not just physically but emotionally as well. Anwen O'Driscoll plays Ashley Reeves in 'Left For Dead: The Ashley Reeves Story' (Lifetime) O'Driscoll is an actor known for her roles on several TV series such as 'October Faction', which is about a semi-retired couple who works for a clandestine monster-hunting agency and 'Burden Of Truth', in which a big city lawyer returns to her hometown to take on the case of a group of girls suffering from a mysterious illness. However, her relationship with a teacher almost led to her life being completely destroyed. Ashley Reeves, who was attacked in 2006 and left for dead, was a bright popular student who seemed to have it all. ![]() Twenty-two-year Canadian actor Anwen O'Driscoll plays 17-year-old Ashley Reeves in the Lifetime film. Who was Jennifer Dulos? How mother-of-five's domestic bliss ended in her tragic death 'Left For Dead: The Ashley Reeves Story' stars Anwen O'Driscoll (Lifetime) Cast Where is Elisabeth Fritzl now? Chilling true story of 24 years of rape and captivity of 'Girl in The Basement' Let's now meet the cast who have brought Ashley's story to life. If true crime stories interest you, then perhaps other Lifetime movies such as 'A House on Fire' and 'Gone Mom: The Disappearance of Jennifer Dulos' should also make it to your watchlist. ![]() She had an emotional battle to wage as well, as the teenager came under intense scrutiny for her involvement with a teacher, who was also the one who attacked her. Against all odds, however, the police found her alive and that was just the beginning of Ashley's battle as she had to learn how to eat and walk again. "But if you just take that as serious, and you have those characters inhabit that world and play it for serious, then it just has a different feel to it, and I think you transcend that campiness and cheesiness.'Left For Dead: The Ashley Reeves Story' on Lifetime follows the tragic yet triumphant story of young Ashley Reeves (Anwen O'Driscoll) who in 2006 was brutally attacked and left for dead in the woods for 30 hours. "Early '70s, late '60s sci-fi is very campy, very cheesy," he said. He's taking a similar approach with his current project, The Anacrusis, a retro-sci-fi co-op shooter currently in early access on Steam. So L4D really was leaning into trying to bring the players themselves into the chaos which leads to my favorite review: 'With friends, L4D is a good co-op game, with strangers it’s probably what the zombie apocalypse would be like…'"įaliszek acknowledged during the Kiwi Talkz interview that zombies are cheesy and camp, but said that by making characters like Zoey and Louis aware that they're essentially trapped in a zombie horror show-and playing it seriously-that aspect of the narrative becomes much less overt. "I think it’s fine to have a big thought hanging behind the game, but for something like L4D it gets in the way because at the end of the day I want the players to talk about the time I saved Andy from the smoker, not the time I saved Louis from the creature trying to destroy technology. "And he used the other Zombie movies as references of being about deeper topics, where I wanted the story to be about that confusion and mayhem and how we communicate with each other during those times." Newell's comments on the allegorical aspects of zombie movies served a similar function, according to Faliszek: He wanted the Left 4 Dead story "to come from the people on the street" who don't have the big-picture view of what's happening, but "Gabe also challenged me on this," he wrote. ![]()
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