Thoughtful, scary and unusual

Rating: 9/10 (17 August 2006)

I watched this movie on a small screen and wished I'd been in a theatre. After wanting to kill myself for watching Venom - a slasher movie that assumes the audience is as brain dead as the characters - it was great to watch a British movie which took its time to develop its characters, to produce its shocks and to deliver the story.
It is said that any good movie will have several layers, and one of the best things about this movie is that it doesn't hit you over the head with them - you figure out for yourself the subtle relationships between characters, the motivations, the reasoning behind the story.
If you compare this to The Cave where they go for big effects, but create a much less satisfying movie, you see the value of script and character over effects.
The end surprised me - I wasn't ready for it - it's not Hollywood, it's good.
Neil Marshall who also directed Dog Soldiers is clearly a confident and talented director...thanks mate, keep 'em coming.