FRYHTO: An Old English word for.....

Rating: 9/10 (9 October 2005)

Mrs Pankhurst and her Daughters just might have enjoyed this movie. Its great to see a film that the women are taking control off, is it me or are male dominated movies, The Cave for example, getting a little too much of themselves lately? Boys will be boys.
I have NEVER walked out of a cinema after a showing EVER and had to stop and say to myself "What have I just seen?" The unsettling feeling in my stomach wouldn't go away for an age, having to tell my Wife that she was driving the fifteen miles back home, because the film that we'd seen had scared the hell out of me and that I'm still in shock. I drove back safely, but was making a point that this film has been one of the scariest, frightening and intense movies I had seen for a VERY long time! Being an 18 certificate here in England made all the difference, a grown up gore movie for a grown up audience, its not all about "the gore" but a good story line and script does help, nice one.
I really am getting tired and bored of having to put up with going to see a kids film, 15 certificate or younger, that refuses to treat you as an 18 certificate or older and then try to do its best with the restrictions of a 15 certificate, thus selling you short of a true gore movie, i.e. The Cave.
People who have the mentality of wanting to watch it (any) on DVD first just don't know what the Cinema Experience really means. The Big Screen IS the only way to see a movie of this calibre, ironically it's the telly addicts that are selling themselves short.
The pace never slackened, the claustrophobic atmosphere never gave way to their enclosed plight, causing the senses to give way to sheer helplessness and doubt that transcended this feeling of fright into my knotted stomach.
The irony is that the woman with the least to live for, she just wasn't having a very good year was she? Lived the longest and wanted to die the sooner, she got her Final Wish in the end, to be with her Daughter. You did empathise with her.
My Wife liked the film, she was very happy with it too.
If you're going to pay to be scared, then we didn't pay enough, because we still cant get over it! Atmospheric! Brilliant! Scary! Frightful! Memorable! I'm sorry if it looks like I'm repeating myself but I cant say enough about this film and the WOW Factor that it gave me and the Wife, over my mind, body and Soul. The interpretation of this experience in Cinema terminology is having a case of "Jumping out of your seat" syndrome, the only way to cure this dilemma? GO AGAIN.
Dog Soldiers is also a great movie.
Thanks Neil.