13 Hrs

Plot synopsis:
Sarah Tyler (Isabella Calthorpe) is driving along a winding road one night in order to return to her home in England. after a couple of years of staying in the Los Angeles in the United States. When she arrives, she greets her step-father who is working his way through a couple of paperworks. Sarah told her step-father to rest that night while she takes care of her brothers who are at the barn fixing a jeep. Sarah left the house to go to the family's barn nearby while a storm is brewing. She saw her brothers with their friends having a party at the barn. Among those partying were Stephen Moore (Peter Gadiot) and his girlfriend Emily (Gemma Atkinson), Charlie Moore (Gabriel Thomson), Gary Ashby (Tom Felton), and Doug Walker (Joshua Bowman). Also in the barn away from the noise of the party is their youngest brother Luke Moore (Anthony de Liseo) asleep amongst the hay together with their dog Stoner.
Sarah woke up Luke and learned that their parents were fighting over bills and a supposed love affair of their mother with another man. She told Luke to go back to sleep and sent Stoner back home. Sarah then joined the party where she asked why she was kept out of the loop for so long. Stephen then told her that her step father accused their mother of having an affair with someone and that she is paying this man huge sums of money. Sarah can't believe that her mother is having an affair.
Everyone went back to the house. There was a power outage caused by the storm. Inside, the pack went up the stairs and noticed blood dripping at the top of the stairs. Meanwhile, Gary separates from the group and ended up in the kitchen in order to look for candles. The group upstairs followed the marks of blood on the carpet and they saw that it came from their father's room. When they entered the room, everyone was shocked to see the lifeless body of their father that seemed to have been attacked by some wild animal. The rib cage can clearly be seen with some internal organs missing. Almost at the same time, Gary saw some candles and dropped them. When he reached down to get them, he saw the collar of Stoner and the bloody remains of the dog.
The group upstairs suddenly saw a beast like creature which immediately attacked them. Luckily, they were able to close the door before the beast could reach them. The beast keeps on pounding furiously against the closed door when Gary called out to them. The beast immediately heard Gary and went after him and killed him the same way - ripping his internal organs out. The creature then started to go back to the closed door and furiously tried to break it open. Sarah and group then fled to the bathroom of their father's room and closed the door there. When the beast started to pound the door of the bathroom also, Sarah saw a passageway inside the bathroom going to the attic. Everyone went up it and for a moment in time they were saved.
In the attic, the group contemplated on what they are going to do. Sarah mentioned that they needed to get help and her mobile phone is in her bag downstairs. Stephen's phone is dead. Sarah remembered Luke was left sleeping at the barn. Sarah then said that there is a phone in their father's room. Emily saw a pathway in the attic that leads to another opening in another room. They devised a plan in order to get to the phone. Sarah would go down through the other pathway and make distract the beast while Charlie goes down to their father's bathroom back into their father's room and use the phone there to call for help.
The monster heard Sarah's screams to get it's attention and ran towards her. Meanwhile, Charlie was able to reach the phone and he tried calling the police. Sarah went back to the other opening in the attic when she noticed that the creature had stopped following her. She went outside to look for the creature and realized that it is after Charlie. Charlie was able to contact the police and mentioned about the wild animal in their house before he was attacked and killed by the beast. Sarah saw that Charlie was already being devoured by the beast. It then went after Sarah, who immediately tried to go back up the attic. Unfortunately, the beast was able to get hold and bite her leg before she managed to make her way up to the attic.
On the other side of town, McRae was picked up by police officer May. Apparently they were sent to investigate the call made by Charlie about wild animals being loose at their home. McRae is a trained dog catcher and was enlisted by the police department to help in resolving the situation. May thinks that the report is a hoax but went there instead to be sure.
Back in the attic, Stephen was hysterical while Doug was treating Sarah's leg lacerations. Stephen crawled in the attic away from Sarah and Doug while Emily followed him. Stephen saw another passageway from the attic which lead to another room containing a shotgun. Once inside the room, Sarah and Doug warned them that the beast is lurking outside the room and told them to get out. Emily and Stephen manage to block the door after a little bit of struggle. While Emily is looking for shotgun cartridges, Stephen leaves her and crawls back up to the attic. Sarah armed with a stake makes her way down where she injures the beast before it attacks Emily.
All of them meet up at the attic where an outraged Emily starts screaming and threatening a scared Stephen. She takes the shotgun and says she will kill the beast herself. The beast manages to surprise Emily where she takes a shot at it but unfortunalety falls and ends up shooting herself which results in her death. Meanwhile, McRae with officer May see an abandoned car in the middle of the road and stop to investigate. They come to the conclusion, after finding that the woman did not take her handbag, that the car broke down but the driver seeking for help never made it back so the call they received earlier may not be a hoax. As they leave, a pile of clothes is shown a few feet away from the car.
Luke wakes up and goes back to the house unaware of the situation that is going on. He finds Gary's dead body in the hall way. The beast, now aware of his presence, is after him. Sarah eventually falls through the ceiling. As she quickly recovers she helps Luke and all of the remaining survivors make their way to the roof. McRae and officer May arrive at the house but both get killed by the beast. Sarah manages to reach the police vehicle where she takes the handbag and then all of them run towards the barn where Stephen tries to fix the Jeep. Sarah discovers that the handbag belonged to her mother, it is also revealed that Stephen tampered with his mother's car so that he can delay her from seeing her lover. Sarah says that if their mother is dead then Stephen is the one to blame. An upset Stephen knocks her unconscious but Sarah awakens and hits Stephen. A scared Stephen runs out of the barn and he is attacked by the beast. Inside the barn Sarah starts to transforms into a monstrous figure.
Luke and Doug run back to the house where the beast comes back. They hide under the table and just as soon as the beast is about to kill them, a beast-like Sarah attacks and fights with the other beast. Luke runs back to the car while Doug tries to shoot at the beast but is eventually bitten and killed by Sarah. In the morning Sarah has returned to her human self. The other beast is revealed to be Sarah's mother. Sarah finds Luke inside the car and they both drive off to go somewhere safe. Just before the credits roll, it is revealed that Gary is still alive.

Tags: murder

Review:
This movie is not the greatest as you would guess with not a very good cast nor an original story line.
The film starts of with Sarah Tyler coming back to England from the United States after a long time.
We find out about each of the characters personalities and their previous relationships before Sarah left for USA.Then the action starts with the creature appearing and the family trying to survive.
Not award-winning performances, but still very good shows of talents here.There weren't really any twists to the storyline, except for one that was revealed at the very end, but you saw it coming, so it wasn't a moment of utter surprise by then.I am not going to spoil it here and say what the movie is about, but trust me, "13 Hrs" will keep you riveted to your chair throughout the entire feature.
I'm glad I watched it (okay I did it mainly because of Gemma Atkinson).The movie is not that bad.
I do not agree with what the last user review says : the actors were acceptable, and despite a few bad choices during the movie, I was never bored.
The special effects are really poor during the movie, except at the end where it is acceptable.Despite what was said in the last user review, the director gave us hints about a few things during the movie, you just have to pay attention !
I think the story in itself is quite common, and at the beginning you can easily guess who will survive and a few other things, but then again, the movie was not that bad !.
I admit I could not stomach the full film as the suspense was noticeably lacking, the plot non-existent, and the acting was amateurish given the cast involved.
A good horror film from the producers of 'Dog Soldiers'..
It is however a good film, with moments of bloody gore and good old-school effects, just like 'Dog Soldiers'.
But overall it was a good movie to fill in 85 minutes if you don't have anything amazing to watch.
So, I was quite interested in watching Night Wolf; it didn't only promise lupine action, but also, its British manufacture suggested the potential of being another European film of a superior quality to its Hollywood counterparts.
As for the actors, they did whatever they could with their poorly written characters.In conclusion, Night Wolf is a deplorable horror film, and a waste of time.
This film disappointed me pretty much, specially considering the many excellent British horror films we have been seeing in the last 10 years (such as Evil Aliens, Wake Wood and the previously mentioned Dog Soldiers)..
13Hrs/Wolf Night – TRASH IT ( C- ) 13Hrs is one of the trashy indie horror movies we see from time to time.
Joshua Bowman (Reason I saw this movie), Gemma Atkinson, Isabella Calthrope, Peter Gadiot and Gabriel Thomson were good in their respective parts.
I will be honest and say that I didn't get to the end of this movie without fast forwarding, and indeed found out the 'whole' story from previous reviews.
Good, suspenseful, horror movie with an interesting explanation at the end.
I'm feeling mischievously creative today, so instead of giving you a straight forward review I'll clue you in this way: There once was a girl named Gutsy who, after spending some time abroad in the States making her fortune, returns home to England to visit with her family.
Yet perhaps another sad case of inflating ratings in order to soothe filmmakers egos.No tension, no pace, no catch phrases, no humour, no wit and unfortunately no "horror".Poor acting, annoying characters, uninspired direction, unoriginal plot = 90 mins of boredom.Credit goes only to the movie poster.
Why is it that all the really bad horror films (not good bad, but bad bad) have really great posters/DVD covers?Simply avoid this clunker, you will be a much happier movie lover for it!.
They feel even more used than that.The effects are OK, but nothing great (especially towards the end, you might not like what you see, in a bad way).
And frankly, doing pretty much anything is better than watching this.Don't waste your time on this, you will be very disappointed even with very low expectations..
If you think you are settling in for a gory well thought out horror film, you should know a few things.
It was still entertaining for me in spite of the weak bits, I would recommend it to any creature/horror genre fan, it's a good time killer.
Well because they don't have guns generally speaking the lower threat level allows the family members to survive longer although I wouldn't be surprised if there were some viewers considering that a bad thing.The characters in "13hrs" are a family (some are friends, actually) who aren't terribly close.
It is a bit predictable (and some of the special effects aren't the greatest), but I found it thoroughly entertaining and that is a lot of times difficult for me since I tend to over think and constantly critique the horror movies since they are my favorite genre of movies.
The girl who plays Sarah is quite lovely and doesn't suck at all at acting, which is always nice since the heroine of most horror movies that aren't commercial seem to over act and annoy the crap out of me.
13HRS is a low budget British werewolf film dressed up as an obscure teen horror.
It's also one of the worst-written films I've watched in a while, with a storyline consisting entirely of a group of annoying teen characters trapped in a clichéd creepy old house with a werewolf on the loose, running around and killing them one by one.
There are twists of sorts here in a bid to enliven the narrative but the combination of lacklustre writing and poor direction help to sink it from the start.It's also an irritatingly noisy film in which the werewolf attack scenes are a jumble of loud effects and disjointed editing.
It's a low budget horror movie with a mostly little known cast, and it's a pretty tense little thriller for the most part.
It starts with Sarah (played by Gemma Atkinson, who I thought did a good job) returning home to the family estate in England from the United States to visit a rather dysfunctional group of family and friends.
Pretty soon, this group finds themselves being hunted down one by one by some terrifying, unknown creature.I thought the movie did a good job of sustaining suspense, and it was rather frightening at times.
After returning home to catch up on the family, a woman and her brothers find the house stalked by a vicious creature that serves as the embodiment of a deadly curse upon the family and must find a way to stop it's deadly rampage.Frankly, this turned out to be quite a decent and potentially above-average British horror effort that really off-sets the series of rather disappointing efforts they've produced lately.
We get the family curse turning someone into a ravenous creature at the dark of night after being inflicted with the wounds of such an animal, the animalistic behavior exhibited afterward and the use of stopping the transforming into one by killing the individual who passed the curse on, which are all quite popular examples of such a film genre and generally work well here as there's a lot to like with this section of the film.
This can be off-putting but the fact that something new was tried is certainly commendable enough here, and works quite well in the later half where the film really gets into high-gear with the extreme pace that features a strong series of stalking scenes throughout the elaborate mansion filled with suspenseful chases down long corridors, trapped beneath walls and crawl-spaces as it tries to break in and a general air of indifference towards doling out the deaths which gets rather bloody and gruesome at times for some good times.
I saw this at FrightFest in London and was engaged right up to the final reel where things came a bit unglued.The film deals with an estranged daughter coming home to visit her father and step-family at their ancestral manor.
A building storm cuts off the power and an aborted party in the hay-barn is moved to the house, where the family discover that something *else* has crept into the house ahead of them.There follows a horror genre cat-and-mouse chase around the house interior where the group of youths are steadily picked off by the monstrous invader during their efforts to contact the authorities and call for help.Much of this section of the film is quite tense and well-played and this second reel is where I found most enjoyment.
The creature responsible for the mounting chaos is never shown (other than a clever Gollum-style silhouette in one shot) and works for the film rather than against, leaving imagination to fill in the blanks.Only in the final act of the movie do we learn the origin of the creature (although this particular twist is not difficult to see coming much earlier in the movie) and see it in more detail, which is where things fall down a bit.When budgets are tight, prosthetics and animatronics typically suffer - the visual effects for the creature are a bit wobbly (which shouldn't really matter that much if the editing is tight or evasive) and although the body count is high and the corpses are suitably eviscerated and mangled (with probably the best effects of the movie) somehow the revelation of the responsible party left me feeling flat.
Many of the actual murders also happen off-screen or in cut-away, which was another source of frustration for a horror fan.Ultimately, this is a decent movie and the second act is where all the tension is rooted, but I found the ending lacking something.
At the festival, the director explained they only had something like 18 days to shoot which would certainly impact on the final film.If you like monster movies and have a free hour and a half, you could do a lot worse than watch 13Hrs..
I'm a huge horror film fan, and watch anything that comes out and doesn't get abysmal ratings on here.
the good.The film had a lot of things done very well.
A girl comes home from the US and in the night - the entire family gets massacred one by one - by a monster.
This movie is very similar to the Howling - where we're guessing who the werewolf is - but its kind of like a slasher where its just one senseless killing after another.
This movie tries to be too many things (werewolf, horror, thriller, slasher, whodunit?) without doing justice to any one main idea.
The twist at the end was a surprise for me, I love twists in films, so on those grounds I suppose the film was successful (although it didn't seem well thought out); however one huge problem with this film - and probably the main reason as to why I just couldn't enjoy the film was the acting.
The mixture of posh English accents, insults and swearing, combined with average acting (at best) and irritating characters makes the film difficult to enjoy.
Problems aside, the idea of this film is pretty good.
I just think it was let down by characters, acting, filming, and writing.
I didn't really get a huge feel of 'low budget', I just don't think that the film overall was very good.
Not exactly in the same league as Dog Soldiers or American Werewolf, but also not having the same budget as those titles, this little flick shows budding directors that you can get released with a low budget horror.
The Director picks up the pace nicely after introducing the aforementioned wooden planks to us and the suspense is kept at a no nodding off level with gusto.For those who like a bit of gore, there are some nice gnarly bits but not too overboard - the creature is acceptable for a low budget flick and the script, whilst no great shakes and somewhat predictable in places, is more than adequate to keep you from snoozing between the teeth gnashing and the inevitable running sequencesThe downside - you are likely to become annoyed with the whining actors.
I gave it 6/10, which is an OK on my scale - I wanted to give it 7/10 (good) but overall performances from the cast could have been better even on a low budget.
some kind of monster appears, hell breaks lose, people act stupid, surprise ending, curtains.well, one could also list all the filler material sub plots that were needed to stretch it into the estimated runtime, but let's face it: what the writer had here was a good basic idea and a rather satisfying and almost clever ending, but he had no idea what exactly to do with it.
now, keeping in mind that this is a restricted budget horror film and even keeping in mind all the clichés that such a movie usually almost guaranteed comes with, why didn't they take a nap and wait until daytime?
bottom line: i can see the effort that went into this and i would for sure like a short film version of this, but as a full length release it is just too boring and too confusing for too long to let the ending alone make up for the rest..
Well no, she doesn't, and that's not the only way in which this Brit-horror disappoints: it's also got bloody irritating characters, a wafer thin plot, shocking acting, briefly glimpsed gore, a nonsensical ending, and a blink-and-you'll-miss-it monster that turns out to be...
The main reason I watched this movie is because Tom Felton is in it.
The wolf is basically hairless which is weird, and like I said Tom Felton only had like 5 minutes of screen time :( but he still looks extremely cute in this movie.
Sarah (Isabella Calthorpe), who has been away from home for a long time, returns to England from LA.
(If you have read the title or looked at the cover, you got a good idea what is there.)The creature makes noises that sound like "Predator" apparently an easy noise to duplicate as all the horror films have gone to it.
The movie was a fairly good idea that was poorly executed and suffered from the lack of decent special effects.
A-Z Horror Movie of the Day..."Night Wolf" (R - 2010 - UK)Sub-Genre: Monster/WerewolfMy Score: 5.9Cast=6 Acting=6 Plot=5 Ending=7 Story=7 Scare=4 Jump=5 F/X=6 Monster=7 Transform=6As a storm rages outside, a group shores up for the night...cut off from the outside world.
'A deadly secret is coming home', reads the tagline to this run of the mill werewolf movie.
The movie wasn't bad...basic story with no twists, decent gore, nice images...blah blah blah.
Story, girl arrives back from America to the family home, her Father meets her and tells her, "the half brothers are getting drunk in the barn" there is a lot of tension and due to a poor script and awful sound quality we never get this fully explained.
Decent low budget Brit horror flick.
All i can add as someone whose been activley watching and often suffering at the hands of low budget horror for over 25 yrs is that this movie is worth catching if you come across it on the horror channel or any other broadcaster, if you don't expect too much you might be pleasantly surprised..
Taking into account the time they spent filming and editing,and low costs,also these actors may be on to look out for.i gave it a 10/10..
In the past we have enjoyed LOW budget movies that are now considered classics/cult.Who remembers "The thing" or "Evil dead" "Hellraiser I and II" there were all pretty low budget even for there time.
For the ones that love horror and are pretty keen on details and good plot developments and good effects.Just let it be your wasting 1h and 20 min of your time..
Girl goes home for a family reunion but finds that a creature (werewolf)is in the house.
There is a good premise here and there could have been a good story and the film could have worked as a tense 'what do you do?' horror scenario...but unfortunately this film did not have lot of funding and it comes through BIG time.Ignore any references to Dog Soldiers.
There are good ideas and given more money, better actors and a more polished script, I'm sure this could have been good.Instead we are left with a cast of characters who are family and friends but trying to link who's related to who is hard work as we have short introductions.
The acting for the most is below average but this may be due to the script which, rather than giving engaging conversation between siblings which might have elicited a connection between them, decides to go with the standard cliché dialogue.The thing that really hampers the film is the direction and editing.
There is no real sense of danger - yet this is the situation that they are supposed to be in.If you don't see the 'twist' by half way through the movie then....All in all, there's nothing engaging in the film to keep your interest.
Although the family dynamics aren't quite as good as she would like them to be she soon gets reacquainted with her four half-brothers and a former friend named "Emily" (Gemma Atkinson) who are getting quite drunk in a nearby barn.
Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this movie had a good premise but it was seriously limited by exceedingly poor special effects.
I like horror movies a lot and have watched many over my life.
They are all hackneyed characters but come one this is a horror movie.