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This is a film about two kids trapped in a house with a hungry tiger.
You like it already?
And then they realise they are not alone… which usually accompanies horror films (or is that just me?).
However, he is fantastic at battering down doors.
The scene involving some slowly dripping sweat would have made Hitchcock proud.
Marty finds out and hires a private investigator to track the couple.
Now, heres where things get tricky and it would ruin the movie if I told you too much.
Lets just say there are a couple of murder plots, and a few things go wrong.
Its way more fun!
Naturally, in such a setting the story has to involve the deep dark secrets of Hoodoo.
If you likedAngel Heart,youll love this (it has the added benefit of flawless internal logic).
Peter Sarsgaard is the estate lawyer and potential love interest offering Caroline support.
(And thats all Im saying.)
Thats right, one hungry hungry crocodile.
But with no solid ground in sight, thats just the beginning of their ordeal… (Trauki exploited these themes again in his equally gripping 2010 shark movie,The Reef).
Avoid watching the trailer if you want to enjoy the biggest and most pant-crappingly scary surprise moments.
Scotland is large and photogenic, why not start there?
Writer-director Julian Gilbey did.
In the woods in the middle of nowhere.
Well, what would you do?
As you might imagine, its quite the volatile mix.
But if Ihadsaid that, youd have a pretty good idea of the movies plot.
A suitably heart-pumping ending.
Yet women are still going missing… Apart from the unnecessary, knuckle-chewing scene of romance between adolescents, its high-quality entertainment all the way.
Thanks toPsycho, isolated motels are now a universal fear.
Imagine their relief when they find out its just the TV.
The suspense builds as strange noises come from the room next door which the hotel proprietor insists is empty.
Its all fabulous!)
Roy and Jessie are a couple taking the Transsiberian rail from Bejing to Moscow after their Christian mission trip.
The film is stunning to look at; all aerial shots and chilly Russian magnificence.
It stars Melissa George yes, she of the pouty lips and large teeth again.
She plays Jess, a young woman who is devoted to her autistic son (yes, more autism.
Hollywood loves it) and makes ends meet by waitressing.
There is a slightly unsettling atmosphere afoot, partly because Jess is behaving oddly… Is anything more terrifying than driving across America?
Well, turns out that it was remade more than once!
Waking up chained in a public bathroom with instructions to cut off your foot?
Living in a creepy haunted house?
The film is full of What would I do?
This isnt a fun film to watch with your mates on a Friday night with some beers.
Its dark, shocking and visceral and I felt depressed for a couple of days after watching it.
