The film adaption of Tim Winton’s novel In the Winter Dark blurs the line between drama and thriller and creeps towards a gut-busting crescendo
Director James Bogle’s barely seen or remembered direct-to-video 1988 debut, Stones of Death, is a low-rent schlock horror pic about a group of high school students who meet grisly ends after discovering they live on top of an ancient Aboriginal burial ground.
It plays out exactly as it sounds: like a quintessentially American B movie transplanted into an Australian setting. The performances are underwhelming at best and its by-the-numbers screenplay is patchy, but the film does show a modicum of flair atmospherically. Close one eye and squint out of the other and you might find it a little bit scary.
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Director James Bogle’s barely seen or remembered direct-to-video 1988 debut, Stones of Death, is a low-rent schlock horror pic about a group of high school students who meet grisly ends after discovering they live on top of an ancient Aboriginal burial ground.
It plays out exactly as it sounds: like a quintessentially American B movie transplanted into an Australian setting. The performances are underwhelming at best and its by-the-numbers screenplay is patchy, but the film does show a modicum of flair atmospherically. Close one eye and squint out of the other and you might find it a little bit scary.
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- 10/31/2015
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
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