"It's only a f-----g tunnel."
A group of friends are looking for a specific mountain with centuries old paintings considered quite a find, encountering far more than they bargained for. A rabbit, insects, and leeches all exhibit signs of some sort of "rabid mutation" which causes them to hunt down and eat anything in their path, with a ferocity and deranged, uncontrollable craving for human flesh in particular. It starts with a bite, an infection sets in, moving through the blood stream, causing the victim to suffer a mutation which changes him/her into a flesh-eating , blood-thirsty savage. It's only later recognized that the paintings on the mountainous wall wasn't as much telling a story, but warning others of the terrors which lie in wait for anyone who happens to find themselves in this neck of the woods. Along with these sharp fangs which protrude from their mouths, there's a shriek the rabid buggers sound off that's unnerving to say the least.
I'll say this for PRIMAL, the opening hour is really intense and white-knuckle the moment Mel (Krew Boylan) turns and the others must figure out what to do about her as she moves about, seeking prey to devour. When Mel returns after ripping through one of her friend's throats to feed on his carcass, I think we can say that all bets are off and survival is the only option, accepting the fact that what was once your friend no longer exists and only this primeval thing remains. Anja(Zoe Tuckwell-Smith) seems to be the one person who hasn't suffered some sort of infected bite. Chad 's(Lindsay Farris) arm is munched on my his beloved Mel, while Kris(Rebekah Foord) was "knicked" by the mutant rabbit. Dace(Wil Traval) merely takes in some water and not long after quickly turns. This bewildered me because Chad and Kris had been bitten by infected creatures quite a while longer and yet didn't suffer that same sort of quick mutation. No incoherent ramblings. No spitting out teeth. No carnivorous tendencies. It's odd. Oh, but the movie itself gets much odder.
Mel carries the lower torsos of a victim and kangaroo—the portion she *doesn't* eat—to the tunnel Anja is afraid to enter due to severe claustrophobia (she has an "episode" early in the movie when she attempts to travel inside the tunnel) for "sustenance". We see a scene where Mel forces Anja into the opening of the tunnel where she unknowingly escapes it's "tentacles". Chad's naïveté in regards to Mel – that he will not surrender to the fact that she is not the girl he once loved—borders on absolute absurdity..there comes a time when you have to come to that realization that she's gone, especially as Mel's having a cannibal chow-down on your dead friend. Anyway, the ending when we see Kris' unfortunate fate (she's chosen to give birth and takes it upon herself to attempt an *abortion*)and an attempted rape (right out of some weird Japanese hentai )on Anja, I think the film goes a little too far, but one could make that argument during one of Mel's feeding sessions off of a male victim, with sound effects of bones crunching and ripping flesh. The kangaroo "takedown" and rabbit corpse tomfoolery offer other tasteless "highlights". Lots of graphic violence and impressive make-up effects (even the digital effects are rather well done such as when Anja hurls Mel against a tree subsequently snapping her spine or when Mel takes flight) such as flesh wounds and cannibalism, not to mention, heavy stones crushing heads. This kind of movie is designed for those not easily offended. I failed to mention Damien Freeleagus as much needed comedy relief, with the most entertaining character, Warren, with a fate most unkind.
A group of friends are looking for a specific mountain with centuries old paintings considered quite a find, encountering far more than they bargained for. A rabbit, insects, and leeches all exhibit signs of some sort of "rabid mutation" which causes them to hunt down and eat anything in their path, with a ferocity and deranged, uncontrollable craving for human flesh in particular. It starts with a bite, an infection sets in, moving through the blood stream, causing the victim to suffer a mutation which changes him/her into a flesh-eating , blood-thirsty savage. It's only later recognized that the paintings on the mountainous wall wasn't as much telling a story, but warning others of the terrors which lie in wait for anyone who happens to find themselves in this neck of the woods. Along with these sharp fangs which protrude from their mouths, there's a shriek the rabid buggers sound off that's unnerving to say the least.
I'll say this for PRIMAL, the opening hour is really intense and white-knuckle the moment Mel (Krew Boylan) turns and the others must figure out what to do about her as she moves about, seeking prey to devour. When Mel returns after ripping through one of her friend's throats to feed on his carcass, I think we can say that all bets are off and survival is the only option, accepting the fact that what was once your friend no longer exists and only this primeval thing remains. Anja(Zoe Tuckwell-Smith) seems to be the one person who hasn't suffered some sort of infected bite. Chad 's(Lindsay Farris) arm is munched on my his beloved Mel, while Kris(Rebekah Foord) was "knicked" by the mutant rabbit. Dace(Wil Traval) merely takes in some water and not long after quickly turns. This bewildered me because Chad and Kris had been bitten by infected creatures quite a while longer and yet didn't suffer that same sort of quick mutation. No incoherent ramblings. No spitting out teeth. No carnivorous tendencies. It's odd. Oh, but the movie itself gets much odder.
Mel carries the lower torsos of a victim and kangaroo—the portion she *doesn't* eat—to the tunnel Anja is afraid to enter due to severe claustrophobia (she has an "episode" early in the movie when she attempts to travel inside the tunnel) for "sustenance". We see a scene where Mel forces Anja into the opening of the tunnel where she unknowingly escapes it's "tentacles". Chad's naïveté in regards to Mel – that he will not surrender to the fact that she is not the girl he once loved—borders on absolute absurdity..there comes a time when you have to come to that realization that she's gone, especially as Mel's having a cannibal chow-down on your dead friend. Anyway, the ending when we see Kris' unfortunate fate (she's chosen to give birth and takes it upon herself to attempt an *abortion*)and an attempted rape (right out of some weird Japanese hentai )on Anja, I think the film goes a little too far, but one could make that argument during one of Mel's feeding sessions off of a male victim, with sound effects of bones crunching and ripping flesh. The kangaroo "takedown" and rabbit corpse tomfoolery offer other tasteless "highlights". Lots of graphic violence and impressive make-up effects (even the digital effects are rather well done such as when Anja hurls Mel against a tree subsequently snapping her spine or when Mel takes flight) such as flesh wounds and cannibalism, not to mention, heavy stones crushing heads. This kind of movie is designed for those not easily offended. I failed to mention Damien Freeleagus as much needed comedy relief, with the most entertaining character, Warren, with a fate most unkind.