Strangers within
Year of release : 2017
Run time : 1h27min
Genre : Home Invasion / Slasher / Horror
Martha Templeton,an acclaimed painter,sells her painting,Guilt, for 70.000 pounds. The painting is about cause and effect.
She and her husband,leave for the weekend,leaving their daughter,Sam, home alone. She invites her friends over,and one of her friends invites her boyfriend's friends over. The men seem shady,and pretty soon it's revealed they are there to steal her mother's painting.
One of her friends hears them talking about what they are planning,and Josh k!lls her. This starts a series of events which allude to the painting,as one can't make friends with the devil,sort of speak,without reaping the fruits of such a partnership.
The movie was so bad,it was funny!I honestly wanted to label it a comedy!
SPOILER There's a scene in which the lead should be dead,she's trapped in a car as the house is burning,we see her coughing from all the smoke,and then the explosion,but then,after like, 10 minutes, her friend's boyfriend,who just k!lled one of her friends (on purpose!), comes to rescue her! And she's fine!!
The guys keep on saying they're not gonna k!ll them,while chasing the girls to k!ll them,and k!lling them! You see them talking seriously among each other about doing something,while they do the opposite!
The actors were bad,the worse being Josh,who acted so stiff,like he was a robot! All the actors' reactions were slow,or not what one would expect in such a situation. It felt like a movie made for film school,or by an amateur who asked people on the street if they wanted to be in a movie,and they said Yes!
One of the guys,after being stabb3d, was walking as if he was on a joyride,almost hopping from a foot to the other with glee,until he remembered he's wounded! He suddenly remembered and complained he lost a lot of blood,but it didn't look like much!
Probably the same guy,in an earlier scene,was holding the girl,in such a way,she could have easily escaped,yet,we're supposed to believe she would have just stayed there!
There's some other scenes,with other characters who,run too slow,or pretend to run,waiting for the k!llers to catch up with them!
In one scene one of the girls (SPOILER later revealed to be in on it) says she sprained her ankle,but we never see her do it!
The soundtrack was somewhat the only one fine,but it had this omnipresent sound,like tinnitus,so loud,louder than the actors,which,no matter how much I lowered the sound,it was still so loud in my ears,screeching,bothering me.
The movie was so bad,it was funny! SPOILER I actually laughed when they k!lled one of the girls,who just remained sitting on her knees after Josh sl!t her throat!
The movie is so bad,it deserves a bunch of Razzie Awards for the whole cast and crew,including for Worst Movie!
If this movie was made with better actors and better editing,it would have actually been great!
This British movie had a good idea,but it was poorly executed. Google says the movie was released in 2015,and Wikipedia 2017.
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Rating : The horror,THE HORROR! or The stuff nightmares are made of!!