Barricade (2012)

A father's quiet retreat to the woods with his two children turns into a fight for survival.

Director:

Andrew Currie

Writer:

Michaelbrent Collings

Stars:

Eric McCormack, Jody Thompson, Conner Dwelly

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Eric McCormack	...	Terrance Shade
Jody Thompson	...	Leah Shade
Conner Dwelly	...	Cynthia Shade
Ryan Grantham	...	Jake Shade
Donnelly Rhodes	...	Sheriff Howes
Dalias Blake	...	Deputy Dan

Storyline

This movie is about the Shade family, a year after the death of the mother/wife Leah, the husband and father (Eric McCormack) and his two children go to a cabin retreat in the mountains. While there they are tormented by visions and happenings that start to scare them. But are these incidents real or in their minds? The father feels compelled to barricade them in the cabin in order to keep them safe. But will it work out?

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Genres:

Action | Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for terror and disturbing images

Details

Country:

USA Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 September 2012 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

Barricade Productions, WWE Studios

Technical Specs

Runtime:

82 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

Near the end of the movie, when the father discovers the dead bodies of his children in bed, Cynthia is breathing before he takes her hand.

User Reviews

Paltry, bland PG-13 horror

Heading out to a small cabin to get over the death of his wife, a man and his children find the location to be the source of numerous creepy goings-on and that someone or something is targeting them inside, forcing them into a desperate fight for survival.

This here was just an absolutely paltry effort with very little to recommend about it. The fact that this one's restrained rating means that the film is constantly fighting an uphill battle that it will never win since there's never going to be any danger to the children in order to get a harsher rating, forcing the attack scenes to fall into a predictable pattern of fading out before anything happens to which he wakes up and thinks it was all a dream, or he sees something that distracts the attack and it focuses on another aspect of the situation which is quite distracting and really diminishes the film a lot. As well, there's very little to keep the film engaging when the attacks don't come, and the whole plot twist comes at you from a mile away despite the hint it's going to be clever, and the only thing this really has going for it is the creepy cabin with the raging snowstorm outside, which is quite a bit of fun and definitely has a great atmosphere to it, but otherwise there's not a lot going for this one.

Rated PG-13: Violence, Mild Violence and children-in-jeopardy.