It will get under your skin.
When their plans for a nature trip go awry, Polly and boyfriend Seth decide to check into a motel. On their way, they're carjacked and kidnapped by low-rent crooks Dennis and Lacey, who take the victims and their SUV to a nearby gas station. Along the way, they encounter an increasingly terrifying horde of parasites, and if any of them intend to survive, they'll have to outsmart the deadly organisms.
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Contemporary, intimate, grave and relentless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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- John Chardon TMDB · Oct 20147.5/10
Ouch! Smart little horror this, what it lacks in story originality it more than makes up for elsewhere. Young lovers Seth (Paulo Costanzo) and Polly (Jill Wagner) find their attempts at a romantic camping trip usurped by their inadequacies in the great outdoors. But this soon becomes the very least of their problems, because they are car-jacked by escaped convict Dennis Farell (Shea Whigham) and his drug addict girlfriend Lacey Belisle (Rachel Kerbs). When they run over what they think is an animal of some sort, it signals the start of a terrifying ordeal that will see the group backed into the interior of a gas station and forced to fight for their lives. What follows is a solid hour of suspense, terror, horrifying scenes and rich character dynamics. It’s a siege situation with the enemy some sort of porcupine – vegetable – human hybrid, and it’s relentless and clever. Director Toby Wilkins doesn’t once let the picture sag or suffer from filler, all scenes and character interactions are integral to the plotting. Mercifully free of characters doing the dumb things that are so inherent in this splinter (hrr hrr hrr) of horror, Wilkins’ film is consistently effective in what it wants
Read the whole review on TMDB - Kamuraion TMDB · Jun 20218/10
Really good watch, would watch again, and can recommend. While it may not sound like the most original concept, it definitely feels innovative. Using isolation to add atmosphere to the movie allows the movie to really focus the terror of infection, as opposed to zombie movies where it's usually about flooding the world with zombie infection. The movie has a great layered metaphor of Darwinism sliding from a might-makes-right attitude to having to be smart to survive. The experience really felt full for them being trapped in a convenience store. The cast did an excellent performance through the graduating series of events, and a rather strong story.
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Cast
- Jill WagnerPolly Watt
- Charles BakerBlake Sherman Jr.
- Rachel KerbsLacey Belisle
- Paulo CostanzoSeth Belzer
- Shea WhighamDennis Farell
- Laurel WhitsettSheriff Terri Frankel
Crew
- Toby WilkinsDirector
- Ian ShorrWriter
- Kai BarryWriter
- Nelson CraggDirector of Photography
- Elia CmiralOriginal Music Composer
- David Michael MaurerEditor
- Kai BarryProducer
- Ted KroeberProducer
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