Director: RJ Collins
No one in this flood-battered Southern town is above suspicion once the bodies start turning up, not even the officers assigned to investigate.
What is Crescent City about?
Set in a waterlogged Louisiana community still reeling from storm damage, the story follows a detective drawn into a string of killings that seem to target residents connected by old grudges and buried secrets rather than random chance. As the body count rises, distrust spreads through the police department itself, with colleagues eyeing one another and the detective forced to work outside normal channels to find a pattern the official investigation keeps missing. The film uses its flooded, half-abandoned setting as more than backdrop, letting the physical isolation of the town mirror the isolation of a lead investigator who can no longer be sure which of the people helping her are actually working against her.
Cast & crew
Terrence Howard and Alec Baldwin headline a cast that also includes Esai Morales, Nicky Whelan, Michael Sirow, Weston Cage, Anjul Nigam, and Rose Lane Sanfilippo, filling out the small circle of officers and townspeople at the center of the investigation.
Context & significance
Director RJ Collins frames Crescent City squarely within the small-town Southern thriller tradition, pairing a serial-killer mystery with the atmosphere of a community still recovering from natural disaster, a combination that keeps suspicion circulating among a limited, tightly connected cast of characters. The storm-damaged setting also gives the film a distinct visual identity among genre entries built around a serial killer, since so much of the action plays out amid standing water, closed businesses, and a police force stretched thin by disaster response duties on top of a murder investigation.
Where & how to watch
Crescent City is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow the investigation without relying on subtitles. The platform's interface is built around exactly this kind of Persian-first viewing experience, and only a free K-Time account login is needed to begin watching.