Little Bone Lodge

I tried to watch this because of the intriguing premise and the positive reviews. Personally, I was bored. Nothing interesting was happening. At the 20 minute mark I gave up and stopped. British movies move at a different pace which just doesn't work for me. To call this movie a horror or a thriller seems inaccurate. Too much talk and not enough action. That perhaps speaks more to my American attention span than to the quality of the film. I just found it dull and uninteresting. I was not compelled to stick around to see if anything exciting would happen. If you're going to bill something as horror or thriller it needs to deliver on that promise. This does not.

"Bad guys meet someone even worse than them." seems to be its own genre, and I'm tired of seeing it. I just watched a very similar movie called The Price We Pay, so the "twist" was very easy to spot early on. The father in the wheelchair keeps making weird faces, and appears to be trying to speak, despite being catatonic in a wheelchair. I wonder if the medication mother is giving him is actually the reason he's in that state? Yep. Of course it is. Which obviously makes mother a villain. Don't get me wrong. It had potential, and the acting was good. I like the character development with the older brother. When he had to kill the young girl's real mom, that part actually made me tear up. He was the only reason the girl found out that the woman wasn't her real mother, and was able to escape. How does she repay him? By driving off without him. Which led to the dumbest ending. Mother escapes, and keeps the older brother in the same catatonic state that she kept the girl's father and mother in. Where did she escape to? Just a giant castle off the coast. No way they'll ever find her there. How was she able to afford the place? How does she apparently have a lifetime supply of drugs to keep people catatonic? Who knows? Who cares? The screenwriter sure didn't. I'm no drug expert, but I do know they have an expiration date. Intravenous drugs expire even quicker than medication taken orally. I don't like movies that fall apart the longer you think about them, and this is definitely one of those movies. The majority of these glowing reviews are false. Look at their accounts. Some of them have been on this site for years, some less, but they almost all have one thing in common. This movie is the ONLY movie "they've" ever reviewed. This seems suspicious af.

This was surprisingly well put together, with great cinematography and a fitting score - a rare quality in B films. All casting and performances from actors I've never heard of were excellent and convincing. Newb writer Neil Linpow, who also played the Jack character, makes his full length feature film debut with a fairly decent screenplay, albeit a little predictable. Directing by Matthias Hoene was also impressive, as he was able to maintain a constant tone of suspense. The pacing did have some issues, and certainly could've been a little faster in some areas, because the 93 min runtime did feel much longer. Nevertheless, a decent one-time watch and a well deserved 7/10 from me.

Bon film !

Bon film !

Bon film !

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Bon film !

Bon film !