Barricade (2012) 4.3
A father's quiet retreat to the woods with his two children turns into a fight for survival. Director:Andrew CurrieWriter:Michaelbrent Collings |
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Barricade (2012) 4.3
A father's quiet retreat to the woods with his two children turns into a fight for survival. Director:Andrew CurrieWriter:Michaelbrent Collings |
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| Eric McCormack | ... |
Terrance Shade
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| Jody Thompson | ... |
Leah Shade
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| Conner Dwelly | ... |
Cynthia Shade
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| Ryan Grantham | ... | ||
| Donnelly Rhodes | ... |
Sheriff Howes
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| Dalias Blake | ... |
Deputy Dan
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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? Written by Michael Hallows Eve
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.