Next up (or first up for those who celebrated a tad much the night before) is'The Holding' - Screen 1 12.45
This is the first of a rain covered bunch littered all over the fest this year: rural brit flicks that ride the ridge between horror and thriller. 'The Holding', the feature length debut from Susan Jacobson, focuses on a mother and her two young girls who, thanks to a recently AWOL husband, have to strugglingly run the family farm on their ownsome. Enter friendly stranger who knows an inordinate amout about the family. Cue tension, dissension and insidious intentions.
It may not bring anything new to the genre but, since reviews are on the nonexistent side, who knows, maybe it will! Considering it was shot for an estimated 3mill. the film looks slick, and any movie where Georgia Groome is not in an 'Angus, Thongs & Full Frontal Snogging' flick is good to me.
'A Horrible Way To Die' - Discovery Screen 12.30
Making a serial killer movie in 2011 is a bit like beating a dead horse, your not gonna go anywhere fast. See Scream 4 for example a). Yet Adam Wingard's taut and supposedly violent thriller is raking in golden reviews that cite it as simultaneously embracing and subverting the genre that seems so tired and overwrote. What strikes me is how reviews are saying the movie situates the audience there with the serial killer (much like 'Behind The Mask', 'Monster' or 'Henry'), yet all released footage seems to follow Sarah, the murders ex girlfriend. Seems like a bag of mysteries for sure. If none of that captures your attention, it also stars AJ Bowen of House Of The Devil, The Signal and Hatchet II genius. Still unconvinced? Go check out the make up effects in this image. Sold?
So who will you be watching die? Brits in the country? Or blonde beauts in the snow?
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