The Culling, billed as a terrifying supernatural thriller. Frankly I was bored after 30 minutes, and did see the remaining painful 1 hour. My impression was, this could have been a perfectly okay 1 hour horror story. But it's a movie right ? So the editing had to be to a normal movie length of 1 hour 30. What got me, was the usual obvious limitations of budget, so we have a tiny cast, a remote location, and terrible dialogue. We have inconsistent acting and script. One girl says the farmhouse is creepy, and then 10 minutes later changes her mind and insists the whole usual hedonistic cast stay there for dinner ! We have a lost girl, phone the police ? No !!! Take her home even though it's miles out of their route ? Yes !! Come into the house with the girl ? Check !! Change all plans and agree to stay the night in a strangers home ? Yes !! Blast a shotgun in a small room with your friend running around ? Yes !! Honestly, I used to like horror films, but the majority of movies made these days are so unoriginal and clichéd and just plain stupid that I'm going off them for life. Low budget ? Then create so damn good scripts to use ! Low budget then try something different ? How about a 15 minute pastiche of what would have happened to the cast if they hadn't been so stupid and just gone to the concert as planned ? At the end of the story - a what if story ? The usual early 20 idiots with no idea of how to act or behave, so you couldn't care less what happens when the evil eventually surfaces. Creepy young girl ? Axes slipping, strange noises, dolls !!! Dolls for god sake, they have been overdone...yes old dolls are creepy, so what ? I rate this as a must miss ! 3/10.
Review of The Culling
