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Director: Neil Marshall
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From Time Out Film Guide
The lost patrol meets the werewolf movie. Sgt Harry Wells (Pertwee) is leading his squad on manoeuvres in the Scottish Highlands when the training exercise unexpectedly turns nasty. Happening across the remains of a butchered Special Forces unit, they are rescued just in time by environmental researcher Megan (Cleasby), and shelter in the only farmhouse within 50 miles. It's deserted, the moon is high, the wolves are baying. Directing his first feature, Marshall allows his cast to overplay the squaddies' hard-nosed attitude in the opening section; but he's on surer footing when it comes to action and suspense. The werewolves are impressively realised, and the damage they inflict will put you right off your sausages. The farmhouse siege is intelligently constructed to shut off idle hope, and what's left of the cast strike the right pitch of bleeding machismo. It may be barking, but this British underdog has teeth.Author: TCh
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- Godfrey Hamilton said...
- Posted on Jul 06 2009 21:06 A splendid movie, although it's nearly scuppered by Sean Pertwee's awful, barnstorming, over-the-top performance (you politely refer to it as overplaying. Ahem. To say the least. Pertwee reminds me of Donald Wolfit roaring his way through Blood of the Vampire. Oh dear. I've just dated myself haven't I?)
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- b.m.stott said...
- Posted on Mar 05 2009 21:31 great low budget brit film.will.be a cult classic
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Cast & crew
Director: Neil Marshall
Producer: Christopher Figg, Tom Reeve, David E Allen
Cast: Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby, Liam Cunningham, Thomas Lockyer, Darren Morfitt, Chris Robson, Leslie Simpson full cast
Duration: 105 mins
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