I'll buy it on DVD

Rating: 6/10 (14 July 2005)

I saw this film in the cinema yesterday with a friend and I have to say it wasn't a bad film. I read about it in a newspaper and it said it was directed by the same man who directed Dog Soldiers, Neil Marshall, so I thought it had to be good. I knew it wouldn't be the same as Dog Soldiers, but it had a lot of similarities, such as the team of close friends going on an expedition, they're trapped and attacked by a pack of creatures. My friend jumped at most of the scenes but it was due to the loud noises that jumped out when one of the creatures attacked. I thought that the creatures could have been a little better designed seeing as in Marshall's Dog Soldiers a lot of work was put into the werewolves, and the Crawlers looked a lot like a cross between Gollum from LOTR and the Ubervamps in Buffy. Aside from having a different story and different characters and such, this film felt a lot like 28 Days Later. My overall rating would be 6 out of 10. I wouldn't see it at the cinema twice, but I'd buy it on DVD to watch every so often. As I said, it's not a bad film.