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David_lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees
Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 92.16.241.44
| | Posted on Thursday, November 08, 2012 - 11:15 pm: | |
I recorded this off the Horror Channel last week and got round to watching it last night and was very impressed. It's about a promiscuous young woman in a poor Texas town who befriends a clearly unhinged ex-soldier. Bad things ensue.
It was very low budget but very skilfully made. The director could effectively establish a character in a handful of dialogue-free shots of someone going about their day. It's quite a slow-burn but the violence, when it finally comes, is absolutely harrowing despite (or more likely because) the fact it's more suggestive than graphic.
I IMBD'ed it after and discovered the director, Simon Rumley, also made The Living and the Dead, which impressed me as that was a very British film but RWB felt utterly American. I was also completely blown away when I saw the actor who played the disturbed ex-soldier, Noah Taylor, also played the mild-mannered father in Richard Ayoade's Submarine. I wouldn't have connected the two in a million years. Definitely an actor I'll be keeping an eye out for from now on.
So yes, recommended. |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.42.53.100
| | Posted on Friday, November 09, 2012 - 10:48 am: | |
He's been round for ages - was in Tomb Raider 1 and 2 and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He was young only a few years ago but now looks a bit old. |
David_lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees
Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 92.16.241.44
| | Posted on Friday, November 09, 2012 - 02:17 pm: | |
Yeah, he's one of those character actors you recognise without really knowing who he is, except he was really unrecognisable in this  |
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