In the Australian thriller by director Julian Gilbey (the dreadful Doghouse), five bikers (two couples and one fifth wheel), tummies full of smoked-mackerel-and-egg sandwiches, have just embarked on their high adventure when one hears a muffled cry for help. It’s coming from a pipe poking out of the ground. Digging into the earth, the hikers […]
The Most Dangerous Game
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Shadow
This Italian-made but English-language thriller is an expectation-subverter, whose opening minutes of beauty belie the ugliness to come. Your first hint rears its head when our hero, David (Jake Muxworthy), stops for a beer in a mountaintop watering hole … where a Ouija board hangs on the wall. The trouble begins when two rednecks (Chris […]