The Bone Garden

Alice Hardy is a middle-aged woman living in an idyllic country town. Everything seems to be going just right until new, unfriendly neighbours move in. Now townsfolk are being murdered.

I had low expectations for this. It looked like a typical B-grade horror movie, complete with a cast and crew of unknowns and poor production values. Yet, for more than half of the movie it was quite interesting. The plot was intriguing and the characters, especially Alice and Laurie and their relationship, quite engaging. Direction was hardly brilliant but worked and the performances were fairly solid, especially considering the cast.

The plot was set for a great conclusion, with the primary suspect as to who the murderer being so obvious as to clearly having to be a be a red herring, making the identity of the actual murderer even more intriguing.

Then it all fell apart. The red herring wasn't a red herring. Not satisfied with this, writer-director Mike Gutridge then takes the plot off on a random tangent. The ending is nonsensical and massively disappointing after the potential shown for the bulk of the film. Ended pretty much how I suspected the whole film would be before I watched it.