The diner in Hollywood movies has been repeatedly used in a number of ways, although the truth is that, usually, some sort of crime is associated with the particular setting. Alan Scott Neal tries his hand with a crime horror/thriller in “Last Straw”, a film that premiered in Sitges before screening in a number of genre festivals.

Nancy Osborne is a girl in trouble. She is pregnant, although she is not sure who is the father, while her father, completely ignorant of the fact, pressures her to be more responsible now that she has made her manager in the diner he runs. Furthermore, and a bit before the night she is supposed to handle the late shift, a group of troublesome outsiders come to the establishment and start causing trouble, forcing her to pretend she is calling the police. As such, when one of the employees, Jake, starts to...