A British version of ‘Rio Bravo’ or ‘Night of The Living Dead’. During a training mission in a backwoods of Scotland, a team of soldiers get trapped in a cabin and encounter creatures with superhuman strength and a craving for human flesh.
A good British werewolf movie, that shows you how to scare people and make an enjoyable, fun film at the same time.
This is a great movie genre that has not been exploited in recent years. Being trapped and fighting an enemy until daylight is rarely used these days. A couple of John Wayne’s films are the best examples of this genre, ‘Rio Bravo’ and ‘El Dorado’. These are basically the same film, but the drunk is played by Dean Martin in the first film, and Robert Mitchum (the patron saint of drunks) in the second.
Please note – This is not a typical horror movie, This is NOT ‘Jeepers Creepers’ – the story is not juvenile, you do not lose interest in the first 20 minutes and you aren’t praying to a higher being with supernatural, god-like powers (i.e. Superman) to kill the main characters in an unnecessarily brutal and painful way.
A great companion film to last years excellent and under-rated ‘Ginger Snaps’, another modern werewolf movie, from Canada. Monster movies do not have to be cringeworthy or painfully embarrassing, as Hollywood would have us believe.
OVERALL SUMMARY
This is good, clean fun, with the humour not detracting from the atmosphere or predicament the characters are in.
