Directed by Simon Hunter
Written by Simon Hunter and Graeme Scarfe
Starring James Purefoy and Rachel Shelley
A ship carrying some prisons, guards and a few other people hits a rock near a lighthouse and sinks. The survivors reach the shore but unfortunately for them another, more dangerous prisoner, the notorious murderer Leo Rook, has escaped the ship before the sinking and has reached the lighthouse ahead of them and has quickly taken care of the lighthouse crew. With any means of escaping the island or calling out for help being destroyed the others must now survive the night and keep their heads with the maniac on the loose. Who, if any will survive??
A rare slasher flick from England. Now this is my second viewing of this movie and I do admit that I liked it a lot more the first time I saw it a few years ago. I first came across it on the site Xploitedcinema.com and it looked and sounded interesting to me so I decided to check it out.
There really isn’t anything that separates this from the usual slasher fare, except for maybe the score. It does have a nice orchestral score that one would expect from a bigger non slasher film perhaps. It was a nice change of pace from the normal hard rock soundtracks that have been accompanying the majority of slasher films these days. And the piece of music right at the end when the last people standing have finally overcame the evil Leo Rook is a surprisingly touching piece.
As for the acting I felt that everyone did a decent job. The good thing about this was that the people in this movie were adults not the usually teeny bopper and young adult, so there weren’t any of those annoying roles or parts that usually come with those movies and that was a real plus. There were no real big names in this or really anybody you would recognize with the exception of the main guy, James Purefoy, whom you might have seen in A KNIGHT’S TALE and RESIDENT EVIL.
The kills are really nothing special as they don’t even show most of them but we do get to see a couple of throat slicings that do come with some nice blood sprays. There are a lot of decapitated heads in this as the killer likes to collect them, it seems and line them up on the seat of his lifeboat. But we hardly get to see any of those decaps actually happening.
Well like I said there is really nothing to special about this movie but it was a decent effort from the British in the beloved slasher genre. It is worth checking out if you are a lover of said genre. Since I didn’t enjoy it as much the second time around my score for this has fallen just a bit but I would probably still give it a decent 6.5 out of 10.
6.5/10
Written by Simon Hunter and Graeme Scarfe
Starring James Purefoy and Rachel Shelley
A ship carrying some prisons, guards and a few other people hits a rock near a lighthouse and sinks. The survivors reach the shore but unfortunately for them another, more dangerous prisoner, the notorious murderer Leo Rook, has escaped the ship before the sinking and has reached the lighthouse ahead of them and has quickly taken care of the lighthouse crew. With any means of escaping the island or calling out for help being destroyed the others must now survive the night and keep their heads with the maniac on the loose. Who, if any will survive??
A rare slasher flick from England. Now this is my second viewing of this movie and I do admit that I liked it a lot more the first time I saw it a few years ago. I first came across it on the site Xploitedcinema.com and it looked and sounded interesting to me so I decided to check it out.
There really isn’t anything that separates this from the usual slasher fare, except for maybe the score. It does have a nice orchestral score that one would expect from a bigger non slasher film perhaps. It was a nice change of pace from the normal hard rock soundtracks that have been accompanying the majority of slasher films these days. And the piece of music right at the end when the last people standing have finally overcame the evil Leo Rook is a surprisingly touching piece.
As for the acting I felt that everyone did a decent job. The good thing about this was that the people in this movie were adults not the usually teeny bopper and young adult, so there weren’t any of those annoying roles or parts that usually come with those movies and that was a real plus. There were no real big names in this or really anybody you would recognize with the exception of the main guy, James Purefoy, whom you might have seen in A KNIGHT’S TALE and RESIDENT EVIL.
The kills are really nothing special as they don’t even show most of them but we do get to see a couple of throat slicings that do come with some nice blood sprays. There are a lot of decapitated heads in this as the killer likes to collect them, it seems and line them up on the seat of his lifeboat. But we hardly get to see any of those decaps actually happening.
Well like I said there is really nothing to special about this movie but it was a decent effort from the British in the beloved slasher genre. It is worth checking out if you are a lover of said genre. Since I didn’t enjoy it as much the second time around my score for this has fallen just a bit but I would probably still give it a decent 6.5 out of 10.
6.5/10
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