Synopsis
Eat to Live.
After a car accident, Jake is rescued by Morris and brought to his remote farmhouse. As he recovers from his injuries, Jake soon begins to suspect that something is very wrong. Morris has sinister plans for his new houseguest.
Awaiting
2015 Directed by Mark Murphy
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Αναμονή, В ожидании, Várakozás, Awaiting - Das Haus am Wald, 等待, 어웨이팅
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26 Oct 2018
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26 Oct 2018
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01 Mar 2015
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"Daddy, what if he doesn't like me?"
"Well then the pigs can have him."A Yorkshire set horror movie that blends elements of Misery, The Loved Ones and even the more recent 10 Cloverfield Road to form a highly watchable backwoods psycho thriller.
After a mysterious road accident leaves him unconscious, lawyer Jake (Rupert Hill), wakes up in the remote home of tow truck driver Morris (Tony Curran) and his sheltered daughter Lauren (former X-Factor contestant Diana Vickers). The pair appear to have an unhealthy father-daughter relationship making Jake feel uncomfortable and every time he tries to leave, they always find a reason to make him stay.
The kind of film that reveals more threat the longer it goes, I… -
At the Fantasporto Film Festival.
Won't add a rating, as that would be sneaky of me, considering I directed it.
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Near Yorkshire, deep in the Moors lives Morris. He has a tow truck business and has a hot daughter. He wants to marry her right. He rescues a guy that suffers an accident on a desolate road and they plan to keep him Misery style. Starts off with a darkly comic tone and ends up being gloriously gruesome. I couldn't believe the levels that the film goes into in terms of the grotesque. I loved it! People that love guy with an axe chasing people in the woods will eat this up smiling! A stylish direction also helps a lot.
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I really enjoyed this film! It had good acting, a great cast and an extremely insane premise. It starts out kind of slow and builds some character development but then it gets very gory and interesting. There are some very strange scenes and plot points that are never really explained. It all came together cohesively.
The gore was very well done and graphic. I didn't expect this kind of gore from what I thought was just a psychological thriller, but it's here. I would definitely watch it again.
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I managed half an hour of this bollocks, which seems to want to be The Loved Ones, but isn’t a patch on it. The main issue is the acting. Perhaps it got better. I’ll never know.
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I expected nothing from this, but it’s actually a half decent little film. Jake has a car accident and is bought to a remote farm house. He soon finds the father and daughter that live there, have something of a strange relationship.
The biggest issue of the film is that the start is just so rushed. The car accident happens straight away and Jake is in the house within 5 minutes. It really needed to give us a little time with Jake before hand to give him a bit of character. With him in the house and strange stuff happening so early, we only ever see him reacting to all this and have little to no sense of the kind…
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Well this is a tough one to review. I needed something to fall asleep to last night (so what better than a horror movie, right?), and so I randomly chose this one on Hulu without knowing a single thing about it. I didn't even read the little blurb/synopsis in the description. After the first 15 minutes I thought it might be one of the worst movies ever. After 30 minutes I felt that it was fitting nicely into the "so bad it's good" category. Then after the first hour or so I started thinking it was actually pretty good and making a strong turn for the better. By the end, I was left scratching my head and smiling, impressed by…
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Remember Diana Vickers, the former X-Factor wannabe warbler? Well here she confounds expectations in a surprising yet effective career tangent as Lauren, an innocent Daddy's girl held captive by her over-protective and potentially psychotic father Morris (Tony Curran), in a remote Yorkshire cottage, where every day is Christmas, and that's just a hint towards the perversion and insanity of their freakish family life. All of which will gradually be revealed in its full depravity by lawyer Jake (Rupert Hill), who is rescued from a nearby car crash and taken back to experience some Northern hospitality.
With a taut, twisted, almost fairytale sensibility, strong performances throughout in what is essentially a three-hander chamber piece, this is a slow burn thriller with… -
"a recluse with psychotic tendencies" I feel called out. And somehow both bored and uncomfortable at the same time.
I don't even wanna go into everything I thought was wrong with this film, which had nothing to do with it being low budget and everything to do with writing/acting/pacing/style/direction. I WILL say if a limb is severed from a living body there better be a FUCKLOAD of blood, not just a tiny dribbled slick of it underneath and these things DO NOT STOP BLEEDING ONCE THE SEVERING IS DONE. Ugh, I can't. If you don't have the budget for cgi or even practical blood effects to make that look even remotely believable then either don't show it, or show it being cauterized. Do SOMETHING.
The ending is fucking dumb and I'm so annoyed that I sat through this whole thing.
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So you think your Dad is a control freak, huh?
There were some pacing issues for me in the first couple of acts, but the last act was pretty out of control, so I'm glad I kept plowing forward. The cast was strong, but the standout here was Tony Curran (Calibre) who killed it as the deranged father.
Score: 6.25/10
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Can't actually believe that an X Factor alum is in a film, that is so bizarre what's bizarre also is that the director of this Mark Murphy also directed one of my favorite films 'The Comedian's Guide to Survival' this is a huge step down from that for me. This is not really that scary at all either and I got nothing out of this. Oh well.