The Culling (2015)
8/10
A little flawed but enjoyable briefer affair
16 March 2016
Traveling to a music festival, a group of friends returning a young girl home to her parents' house brings them into contact with a ravenous supernatural entity and must find their connection to the family in order to get away alive.

This one wasn't all that bad and did have some enjoyable parts to it. One of the best parts here is the fact that there's a rather creepy air to it that does make things far more chilling than expected. Though it takes awhile, the scenes of the group walking through the house in the darkened hallways and hearing the strange noises throughout here before the eventual meeting with the parents that begins all sorts of fun in here. Hearing the voices over the baby monitor and the phantom accident makes for a stellar introduction to the fun here where it leaves them isolated in the house. These here become much more fun as the rattling furniture and unseen possession upstairs kicks this nicely along while providing some rather enjoyable set-ups with the growing realization of what's happening as they begin being assaulted by all sorts of paranormal actions which includes the fun of the car crash out in the city streets, the basement pit full of burnt dolls and the various supernatural entities found within the house that it makes for a great sense of atmosphere here. Even with this kind of cliché action leading through the finale where they begin chasing each other throughout the area, there's some frenetic action on display with the way the escape attempts are laid out which gives this a somewhat fun and enjoyable finish here. These here all manage to make this one enjoyable enough over it's few minor flaws. Among the main things with this one is the fact that there's just so little time here with this one that it really manages to come off as too rushed and hurried at times. The opening meeting with the girl and getting to her house is way too quick and done with rather quickly, then it stretches out them hanging around before the accident and kinds of stuff starts in from there which leads to a rather disjointed and rather messily-plotted with the rather start/stop nature of the pace. There's also the other problem here of managing to go for the rather traditional and cliché manner of the finale here which is pretty predictable and not all that surprising which gives this one quite a familiar ring to it at times whether it's really intentional or not. It does take a lot of the tension out of the potential tension out of the finish here going for this rather simplistic and giveaway route, and all told these here do manage to hold this one down.

Rated R: Graphic Violence, Language, children-in-jeopardy and some drug use.
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