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British Horror Movies

Dog Soldiers (2002) Review

November 2, 2013 by Eric S. Leave a Comment

dog soldiers reviewSynopsis: A routine military exercise turns into a nightmare in the Scotland wilderness.

Quick Review: Ever since I watched The Descent, I’ve always wanted to catch up on Dog Soldiers, Neil Marshall’s first effort. Now that I’ve seen it I’m kicking myself for not having watched it earlier.

MILD SPOILERS AHEAD!!

Dog Soldiers is one of the best werewolf movie of all time, period. Maybe only second to “An american Werewolf in London”.

Right from the start there is a sense of urgency and hopelessness that grips you until the very end. Director Neil Marshall succeeds to keep our attention on a tight budget with only 2 main location throughout the movie. It starts as a military movie, with a great cast of characters by the way, and turns into “Night of the Living Werewolf” with our heroes locked into a house trying to protect themselves from their assaillants.

I loved everything about Dog Soldiers: the dialog sounds real (some local slang might be difficult to catch if you’re not used to it) and is, at times, hilarious, each actor does a good job at making us empathize with them, the editing is great and the script, while quite straight forward, is tight enough with no time wasted om overstretched scenes.

When watching Dog Soldiers, I understood better why The Descent was such a blast of a movie. Neil Marshall is, in my book, one of the best action-horror director working right now and he proved it again with Doomsday and the episodes he directed for Game of Thrones. Now I need to catch up with his last movie, Centurion.

My Rating: 7.5/10

Director: Neil Marshall

Origin: UK

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Filed Under: British Horror Movies Tagged With: Action, Cabin in the Woods, Gory, Supernatural, Survival, Werewolves

The Seasoning House (2012) Review

October 4, 2013 by Eric S. Leave a Comment

The-Seasoning-House-reviewSynopsis:  Young girls are captured by the military during the war in the balkans and prostituted. An orphaned deaf mute is enslaved to care for them. She moves between the walls and crawlspaces, showing the little kindnesses when she can. When fate brings the men that murdered her family and the reason she ended up in the whore house, a chain of events begins that will grant her revenge on the soldiers that destroyed her life.

My Quick Review: Sometimes the true horrors in life are worse than any supernatural horror seen in movies.

Case in point with The Seasoning House, a gruesome, hard to watch look into the horrors of war and, more specifically, prostitution in the after-war balkans.

The violence in the movie is psychological first but very visual as well. Some outbursts of violence are extremely graphic (one knife fight is extremely well made) so kudos to the practical FX team. This is after all the directorial debut of Paul Hyett who worked as a make up specialist on some of the best recent Horror movies from the UK (The Descent, Eden Lake, Attack of The Block…).

Some have described the violence in The Seasoning House as being gratuitous without any strong message. It is true that the movie ends up being more a traditional Rape and Revenge movie than an in-depth look into prostitution rings in eastern europe but the director’s intention was probably not to make a potential academy award movie.

As it stands, The Seasoning House is a riveting, shocking Horror Movie with bursts of violence that will leave non one indifferent.

My Rating: 7.5/10

Director: Paul Hyett

Origin: UK

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Filed Under: British Horror Movies Tagged With: Action, Disturbing, Gory, Psychological, rape, revenge, Survival

Truth Or Die (2012) Review

July 21, 2013 by Eric S. Leave a Comment

Truth-or-Die-reviewSynopsis: Young British boys and girls travel to an isolated cabin after being promised a night of heavy partying. Instead of the fun they hoped for, they meet a killer out to reap vengeance on them for the death of his brother.

Quick Review: What started as an interesting take on a classic Truth or dare game ended up being a lackluster movie, too afraid to go all the way with its own concepts.

Truth or Dare is a UK import with really good production values and subpar acting that starts on solid grounds but somehow loses its way around the 1hr mark. There is a gruesome game involving battery acid but from this point on, the script shies away from any graphic scenes and kind of goes into typical crazy-guy flick territory.

Even a “supposedly” shocking double twist can’t save the end, especially when once again the writer have decided to not go all the way with their own story concept.

More a thriller than a Horror Movie, Truth or Dare starts with a good premise but ultimately fails to deliver.

My Rating: 5/10

Director: Robert Heath

Origin: UK

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Filed Under: British Horror Movies Tagged With: Cabin in the Woods, revenge

28 Days Later Review

June 7, 2013 by Eric S. Leave a Comment

28-Days-Later-reviewSynopsis: (from IMDb) Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.

Neoli’s Review:  Ask me to recommend a good zombie-themed horror film and I’ll recommend 28 Days Later in a heartbeat.  Danny Boyle directed this film which we might expect to feature the same hip and cool vibe as his classic Trainspotting.  And guess what Alex Garland wrote the script, the guy who gave us the equally hip and cool The Beach, so inevitably 28 Days Later is all that too.  Actually, 28 Days Later is the film that made zombies hip again.

Then again, when you’re trying to survive a hopelessly anarchic, zombie-infested London, being hip and cool is the last thing on your mind.  Nevertheless, Jim (played by Cillian Murphy—the always cheekbony-handsome Cillian Murphy!) and Selena (played by Naomie Harris, the strong female character, and black at that) make running away from zombies such a lovely enterprise.  Together they’re joined by father-and-daughter team Frank and Hannah to balance the mix.

In 28 Days Later, the zombification process is given a plausible explanation: it’s from a virus (dubbed RAGE) originating from chimpanzees.  One bite or intravenous contact with the infected blood and humans are immediately reduced to a zombie–not the usual zombie with a doddering gait and head lolled to one side but the raging maniac kind.  I prefer the first kind of course since I figure they’re much easier to outrun.  But the fact that the film settles for the quick-moving zombie variety gives it its fast and energetic pace.

In any case, I’ll have to say it was fun—and dare I say—enjoyable watching 28 Days Later.  You don’t obsess much about the gore and the horror.  You’re much too concerned with the running away and the fending off the zombies and the surviving.  And ultimately you care about the bond Jim and his friends make along the way.  You root for them and sincerely want them to win, and it breaks your heart when one of them doesn’t make it.

At some point it’s no longer about the dread of what the zombies can do to you.  It’s also about the dread of what the other survivors—in this case, the military—are capable of doing for their own purposes.

The DVD copy of 28 Days Later reveals several alternate endings, but the ending where Jim survives his gunshot wound is the one they use.  In this scene, there’s a brief, nanosecond inset of H-E-L spelled in big letters.  It flashes too quickly for you to form any opinion, but nevertheless I remember thinking it’s “hell” being slowly and graphically spelled out for Jim as he lies on his deathbed.  Eventually, he wakes up and goes out of the house and sees Selena and Hannah sewing a giant banner that says HELLO to anyone who cares to help.

It’s not a desperate HELP they wrote there.  It’s a hopeful HELLO, and that makes all the difference.

Neoli’s Rating: 8/10

Directed by: Danny Boyle

Starring: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Brendan Gleeson, Megan Burns

Year: 2002

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Filed Under: British Horror Movies Tagged With: Classic, Gory, Zombie

Comedown Review

June 6, 2013 by Eric S. Leave a Comment

comedown reviewSynopsis (from IMDb): Six friends who come back to the deserted tower block they lived in as kids to install  a pirate radio station soon learn they are not alone, as a resident psychopath begins hunting them down.

My Quick Review: According to IMDb this movie had an estimated budget of 2 million bucks, WTF!!?? I really wonder in whose pocket this money went because it absolutely does not show on screen (no famous actors, only one location, no special effects…). On top of that. Comedown is just plain boring. It does not really matter to me if a movie is shot on a budget, or has got some problem here and there, as long as I’m being entertained.

And believe me i never was. I was looking at my watch the whole time (nothing happens during the first third of the movie) and when the killings starts, nothing shown on screen makes up for the time wasted before. It’s just more filler and missing opportunities to try to bring some originality/scares in an already tired script.

Avoid at all cost!!

My Rating: 3/10

Director: Menhaj Huda

Year: 2012

Origin: UK

Filed Under: British Horror Movies

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