I Screamed.

Rating: 9/10 (31 July 2005)

Yup, I admit it. I, a grown man, with my wife clinging to my arm and popcorn alike, Screamed. I won't tell you when or what at, though....
I loved Dog Soldiers, and although that movie wasn't exactly scary it had a lot of energy and was intensely exciting. This movie is all that AND scary with it.
All the characters come across as well drawn (just as with Dog Soldiers), so as the movie develops you know something about each of them. The movie presents them with very real pot-holing threats (cave-ins, false hope, precipices to dangle across) as well as the fantastical ones, so even when things get really outlandish you always feel a sense of reality.
The use of natural light really works, making the shadows very menacing indeed, you keep expecting things to jump out. The creatures are pretty horrible to behold when they appear, giving you a queasy feeling.
For the movie geeks among us, there are plenty of nods to other horror movies (the Shining, aliens, Carrie, the thing, to name some of the obvious ones) but you never feel the movie is derivative.
If you love your horror scary and gory, go see this great slice of Brit-horror!