What I love most about this film...
It's starts off as a kind of crime drama and ends up as an English slasher. Anyone else notice that?
Who needs reason's when you've got heroin?
Yes, totally. I went in thinking it was just that, a crime thriller (I almost never read reviews or watch trailers before seeing the film). at first I thought it was pretty standard fare and thought it was a like a comical version of "the disappearance of alice creed" but it ramped up nicely into a throwback slasher with some nice twists. good direction, camera work and performances all the way around. the deleted scenes were excellent and I wish there was an extended version that puts them back in. a nice cameo from Doug Bradly for true horror fans. I would have LOVED to heat the commentary but for some reason it's only on the R2 DVD.
8/10
"everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die"
The problem with this film was that the trailer ruined it. Not in a 'the trailer had all the best bits way' but in a 'it ruined the *beep* twist' way. I just finished watching for the first time and i was a little confused. I'd seen the trailer and found myself waiting for the farmer and for him to raise far more hell than he eventually did. Without the trailer, people would have been surprised by the sudden change in tone and style and have been more willing to let it lead them where it wanted to and they wouldn't have really been expecting more than they got. Without the trailer i agree this film deserves 8/10 instead of the insulting 6.2 it has atm. Reece Shearsmith and Andy Serkis are great in it and it leaves enough unclear that the audience should realise that it's not taking itself in any way seriously and feels like a British comedy take on a low budget, slasher B Movie.
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