Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 2:53 pm
Made for about half a million outside Glasgow, this is a horror flick featuring that familiar staple of pseudoscience occultism, the Nazis.
What could have easily devolved into standard C-movie schlock actually holds up. Not brilliant, not anything you've not seen before. However, this has to be one of the few flicks I've seen wherein the army dudes DO NOT break & run at the first sign of trouble. The religious dude isn't a zealot/bigot/psycho. The redneck isn't a racist. The businessman isn't an evil capitalist corporate raider.
There's a few WTF moments towards the end (one HUGE one at the end), but for the most part you won't be saying to yourself, "I know this'll never happen ... but if I ever find myself being pursued by unstoppable, supernatural killing machines, I fucking know I wouldn't do that." There's little to no CG (due to budget constraints, no doubt), but the lighting director obviously had fun w\ his job.
This movie is miles above most anything you'll catch on SyFy/Sci-Fi. It's nothing new, though; just something old done rather well.
EDIT : Now that I think about it for the first time, there's not a single female in this cast, either.
Edited By Malcolm on 1244400855
What could have easily devolved into standard C-movie schlock actually holds up. Not brilliant, not anything you've not seen before. However, this has to be one of the few flicks I've seen wherein the army dudes DO NOT break & run at the first sign of trouble. The religious dude isn't a zealot/bigot/psycho. The redneck isn't a racist. The businessman isn't an evil capitalist corporate raider.
There's a few WTF moments towards the end (one HUGE one at the end), but for the most part you won't be saying to yourself, "I know this'll never happen ... but if I ever find myself being pursued by unstoppable, supernatural killing machines, I fucking know I wouldn't do that." There's little to no CG (due to budget constraints, no doubt), but the lighting director obviously had fun w\ his job.
This movie is miles above most anything you'll catch on SyFy/Sci-Fi. It's nothing new, though; just something old done rather well.
EDIT : Now that I think about it for the first time, there's not a single female in this cast, either.
Edited By Malcolm on 1244400855