This just popped up at my local Cineworld cinema. Unannounced without the normal three months of previews that the Hollywood movies get. I watched the promo online and it looked interesting.
At the start we are treated to a battle between the British and the French. It is well executed and whilst watching this I did wonder if the title was going to be a cop out and this would be a war movie. The characters decide to move camp and at the start of one of the excursions find a fellow British soldier who warns them not to go into the forest. What wonders can await these five battle hardened soldiers?
What follows is a gut wrenching a brutal horror movie which is so refreshing after watching a lot of the tat Hollywood classes as horror these days. At all times the horror is visceral. It was the first horror movie in years that I had to watch through my fingers as it was so brutal.
The story starts slowly and builds to a climax. It is a master class on how to make an intelligent horror movie that credits the audience with powers of deduction. The back story is told in intriguing flashbacks which work well, the story is told in little snippets. Which are there to garner interest but which also present the viewer with more questions.
The cinematography is superb and allows the viewer to understand just how alone the characters are in a vast wilderness. Complemented by a superb score which adds to the dark brooding of the film.
I really believed in the characters who are well thought out. Each gets a back story so that they are just not there as cannon fodder. You care about these characters and want them to live throughout the film. You want them to live happy lives. Though will they.? Watch the movie and find out.
On a side note, if you do not like low-budget British horror you are going to hate it.
By way of a side note(part 2), I wish to say that I was at Wood Green cinema watching it when I saw this movie the only sound was that of people getting up and leaving.
June 2022 edit. I review lots of low-budget movies that I like. It is not often you get to see a British movie with such a low budget at the movies. So I was supporting it with my review. Not sure what all the hate is with the other reviewers.
At the start we are treated to a battle between the British and the French. It is well executed and whilst watching this I did wonder if the title was going to be a cop out and this would be a war movie. The characters decide to move camp and at the start of one of the excursions find a fellow British soldier who warns them not to go into the forest. What wonders can await these five battle hardened soldiers?
What follows is a gut wrenching a brutal horror movie which is so refreshing after watching a lot of the tat Hollywood classes as horror these days. At all times the horror is visceral. It was the first horror movie in years that I had to watch through my fingers as it was so brutal.
The story starts slowly and builds to a climax. It is a master class on how to make an intelligent horror movie that credits the audience with powers of deduction. The back story is told in intriguing flashbacks which work well, the story is told in little snippets. Which are there to garner interest but which also present the viewer with more questions.
The cinematography is superb and allows the viewer to understand just how alone the characters are in a vast wilderness. Complemented by a superb score which adds to the dark brooding of the film.
I really believed in the characters who are well thought out. Each gets a back story so that they are just not there as cannon fodder. You care about these characters and want them to live throughout the film. You want them to live happy lives. Though will they.? Watch the movie and find out.
On a side note, if you do not like low-budget British horror you are going to hate it.
By way of a side note(part 2), I wish to say that I was at Wood Green cinema watching it when I saw this movie the only sound was that of people getting up and leaving.
June 2022 edit. I review lots of low-budget movies that I like. It is not often you get to see a British movie with such a low budget at the movies. So I was supporting it with my review. Not sure what all the hate is with the other reviewers.