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4.9/10 • 5

2024-09-061h 34m

ThrillerHorrorDrama

Never turn your back on family.

The story centres on three brothers and their violent father who live in a remote forest. The brothers attempt to kill their father while on a hunting expedition but this instead begins a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

Directors
Rodger Griffiths
Editors
Rachel Erskine

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Daniel Portman

    Daniel Portman

    Henry

  2. Brian Vernel

    Brian Vernel

    John

  3. Calum Ross

    Calum Ross

    Vince

  4. Paul Higgins

    Paul Higgins

    Don

  5. James Harkness

    James Harkness

    Miller

  6. Joanne Thomson

    Joanne Thomson

    Annie

  7. Anita Vettesse

    Anita Vettesse

    Kate

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CinemaSerf

Sep 22, 2024

6/10

When one young man has a stag firmly in his sights, he balks at the idea of killing it and incurs the wrath of an older man that results in a scuffle that sees another of their party shooting the bloke who turns out to be their rather brutish dad (Paul Higgins). What's equally clear very quickly is that "John" (Brian Vernel) and siblings "Henry" (Daniel Portman) and "Vince" (Calum Ross) had a masterplan that day that was designed to put their nemesis in the ground. What now occurs fills in, by way of flashback, just what drove these young men to their rather drastic course of action whilst we also discover than pops isn't that easy to do away with. With tensions now mounting amidst the dense Caledonian forest, the brothers start to mistrust each other and with tempers flaring they start to wonder who is trustworthy amongst them. Although the story is different, it reminded me a little bit of "Mercy Falls" also from 2023, that over-used the drone footage of ancient woodlands and menacing audio to substitute for some fairly bland writing and acting and a, frankly, increasingly preposterous and protracted storyline that presented us with three principal characters about whom I didn't care at all. It does try to use it's environment to create peril but once the jigsaw (I'd say a six-piece one) of the story was in place then I really did start to lose interest in what became a rather angrily procedural drama devoid of anything at all new or characterful. As a Scot, it's important that we continue to invest in domestic film-making, but endless aerials of fir trees do not, as "Yoda" might have said, a decent film make.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
struggle for survivalgun shootingbroken family