Barricade (2007) (V)

User Rating:

3.9/10   

Director:

Timo Rose

Writers:

Ted Geoghegan (writer)
Timo Rose (writer)

Release Date:

9 February 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Welcome to hell

Plot:

A group of friends are terrorized by a cannibalistic family while camping in The Black Forest of Germany.

Plot Keywords:

Germany | Vacation | Slasher | Jungle Man | Torture

Cast

Raine Brown	...	Nina
Joe Zaso	...	Michael
André Reissig	...	David
Manoush	...	The Mother
Thomas Kercmar	...	Dermot
Timo Rose	...	Marc
Andreas Pape	...	Sean / The Freak
Sebastian Gutsche	...	Goliath
Tanja Karius	...	Marcy
Ellen Tanumihardja	...	Tamara
Dirk Glücks	...	Andre
Michael Hoppe	...	Victim in Cabin
Mike Holmes	...	Victim in Cabin
Ramon Kaltenbach	...	Camper
Ray Estevez	...	Victim

Also Known As:

Barricade: Welcome to Hell (International: English title) (promotional title)

Runtime:

USA:96 min

Country:

Germany | USA

Language:

English | German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.20 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

USA:Unrated | France:-18 (original rating) | Australia:R | France:-16 (DVD rating)

Filming Locations:

Germany

Company:

Rosecalypse and 9 Films International

Movie Connections:

Featured in I Survived Barricade (2007) (V)

Entertaining English splatter movie from Germany

I've never seen any movies from Timo Rose before, but I bought this movie because I had been seeing it a lot on MySpace. It has a simple plot about friends going on a camping trip. Their car breaks down in a German forest and they decide to spend the night there. The next morning, they are attacked by a family of cannibal mutants kind of like The Hills Have Eyes, but not as deformed.

The whole movie is really gory. If you want a plot, you won't really find one here. The acting is okay but not great. Why this movie is so great is all the special effects. It says the effects were done by the director Timo Rose and Olaf Ittenbach (Premutos). The effects range from kind of gross to totally disgusting. It was really nice to see a movie where there wasn't one bad effect. Even the small effects were done really good. Especially on the tiny budget they obviously had.

I think that if you like gore movies, you should definitely check this out. If you don't then you can probably skip it and watch typical Hollywood horror movies without blood and gore.

Oh yeah, and some parts are in German (like the opening). It switches to English after the opening credits and then there are only a few other short scenes in German.

As a gore movie, I give it a 8 out of 10.