The makers might think what I'm going to say is faint praise: GALLOWS HILL, a/k/a THE DAMNED, didn't make me feel like an idiot for watching it until the end. In sum, in relation to the tons of horror films out there, this one is pretty good. Restraint is employed regarding gratuitous nudity and special effects and the opening and closing "narrative" is minimal enough to avoid the preachy manure many films of this budget use. The actors, photography, dialog and editing are professional. Okay, it is stuck inside a house and borrows some gimmicks. Its setting is not the USA and the film usefully employs the language barrier. The creativity on character relations is done with useful effect. This film (on Netflix as GALLOWS HILL) is creative on the CAN as it's stars are not lost or partying kids or paranormal sleuths. As such horror and sci-fi movies, long ago limited to genre, are measurable by HOW it's done, with limitations on what CAN is done. Those who believe in the supernatural, miracles, extra-terrestials, etc., are unaware science has won. Starting a few millenniums back, science i.e., facts, began a battle with religion i.e., superstition. Reviewed by samkan 7 / 10 Good Flick:Think Relative Some gore and horror along the way, but I found it all very passe and unappealing, not helped by the tiny scale and low budget of the production.
It's one of those stories with paper-thin characters and familiar actors (Peter Facinelli, Sophia Myles) wasted in predictable 'demon' scenes of overacting and possession.
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Wrongly believing him to be a paedophile, they free the girl only to get a nasty surprise.ĭespite the novelty of the South American filming location this is another stock and routine story with dark and dreary cinematography most of it is filmed in the dark so the exoticism is wasted. After a car accident the group stay at a closed hotel inhabited by an old man who keeps a young girl chained up in his basement. The story sees an American and his fiancee travelling cross-country with some family members and friends only to get caught out by flooding and forced to take a rural route. But soon they discover the truth about Ana Maria.Ī new watch for me of GALLOWS HILL (2013, aka THE DAMNED, aka HOUSE ON GALLOWS HILL), a tale of demonic possession with the novelty of being filmed on location in Bogota, Colombia.
Felipe warns that the girl will kill his family, but they believe that the old man is a pedophile. When Felipe returns with David with the wood and learns that the couple left the room, he runs to the box but is subdued by David. They seek out and find the girl Ana Maria padlocked in a wooden box. While bringing some wood for the fireplace, the snoopy Jill and her boyfriend Ramon leaves the room and Jill overhears a cry.
The owner Felipe is reluctant to let them in, but he decides to lodge the group. They decide to walk and find an old hotel that has been closed since 1978. They have an accident and the car overturns and Lauren breaks two ribs in the middle of nowhere. They drive through a shortcut but they are stopped on the road by Capitan Morales that warns them that the road is flooded and is too dangerous to drive along, but Gina decides to continue. However Jill has left her passport in the house of her aunt Gina and they travel in a car with Gina and Jill's boyfriend Ramon to the town where Gina lives.
In Bogota, Colombia, the widow American David Reynolds is ready to travel back to America with his fiancée Lauren and his daughter Jill to get married after the death of his wife Marcela.
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