Review of The Culling

The Culling (2015)
6/10
The Culling
30 June 2015
If you haven't seen precisely this film before, you're surely seen the type. A group of teens/college students/young adults drive off for a weekend or an event - in this case apparently some sort of rock festival - and their journey is interrupted. Here there are two girls with an extra guy playing gooseberry - that's when he isn't playing the idiot because as you might have guessed, this group is slightly dysfunctional.

Their journey is interrupted rather unusually by a cute little blonde girl who has apparently lost or been lost by her grandfather. What can they do but take her home? When they arrive, the house is empty but her parents soon turn up, and they are invited to stay a while.

They end up staying quite a bit longer, become isolated, one of their group is killed in a freak motor accident, and there are really weird things going on, not the least being one character we are led to believe is dead coming back to life momentarily to rescue the remaining damsel with a single dreadful act.

This film has had some very bad reviews which it doesn't deserve. There are two or three genuinely scary moments due more to the suddenness of the relevant event rather than anything supernatural, but there is no proper resolution, and a film that ends with a question mark is often more annoying than enticing, as is this one.
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