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Divorced business-bitch Senga Wilson grudgingly drives daughter Nathalie 'Nat' home after a visit to her dad, far away. During a rest-stop, Nat sneaks out with a friend and joins a weird truck-nomadic hippie-like sort of cult, which Senga tails. Its 'father' uses drugs and sex to bind everyone to his bloodthirsty scheme. When Bradford PD detective Ned Stephens investigates, Nat's dad assures him she's safe with him and Senga is pathologically disturbed. Nightmares blur who is imagining or lying what.
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What a completely excellent film - liked the twist at the start and it just got better from then on. OK, it's not stuffed with vampires with pointy teeth and sick-day pallor, but the tension ramps up and up with some obviously supernatural evils taking advantage of a family rift familiar to mums and teens the world over. Darkly horrifying and edgy right to the end - loved it. Thought the ending suggested a sequel and wish there had been one.
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Mother and daughter Senga and Nat(Madeleine Stowe and Mischa Barton) are driving home and spend the whole journey picking at eachother and arguing the toss. Nat wants to go to a music festival, Senga is dead against it, Senga is weary of her life in general while Nat thinks her mother is just feeling sorry for herself. Apart from the fractious relationship with her daughter, Senga is popping pills, she keeps seeing the same group of people again and again, at the truck stop and at the side of the road. Even the evangelist on the television is talking directly to her. After a particulary bad arguement, Nat storms off. Senga witnesses her daughter getting into a mobile trailer with the very same group of people she keeps on bumping into. What follows is Senga's desperate attempts to find her missing daughter, a journey that makes her question her own sanity.
The ending to a film is very important. No matter what has gone on throughout a film, a satisfying conclusion is necessary to leave the viewer feeling totally happy with what they have witnessed. That is what is lacking with 'Octane'. For most of the film, a careful build up of tension is maintained, and the viewer is treated to quite a few nice set pieces along the way. The ending abandons all the atmosphere and subtlety in order to treat the viewer to a barnstorming ending. For me it ruined what could have been a minor classic.
There are many things to enjoy along the way though. Stowe's performance is excellent, the gatherings of the unknown people are pretty creepy affairs, there is a nice music score from British electronic duo Orbital and the film is great to look at. On the minus suide you have the lame duck ending, a panto villian performance from Jonathan Rhys Meyers and a couple of completely unnecessary twists in the plot.
Well worth watching once though. Who knows the ending might make the film for you. No extras on the disc by the way. 3 out of 5
The ending to a film is very important. No matter what has gone on throughout a film, a satisfying conclusion is necessary to leave the viewer feeling totally happy with what they have witnessed. That is what is lacking with 'Octane'. For most of the film, a careful build up of tension is maintained, and the viewer is treated to quite a few nice set pieces along the way. The ending abandons all the atmosphere and subtlety in order to treat the viewer to a barnstorming ending. For me it ruined what could have been a minor classic.
There are many things to enjoy along the way though. Stowe's performance is excellent, the gatherings of the unknown people are pretty creepy affairs, there is a nice music score from British electronic duo Orbital and the film is great to look at. On the minus suide you have the lame duck ending, a panto villian performance from Jonathan Rhys Meyers and a couple of completely unnecessary twists in the plot.
Well worth watching once though. Who knows the ending might make the film for you. No extras on the disc by the way. 3 out of 5
Format:DVD
Offbeat thriller with moments bordering on surrealism, rather strange but that's it's strong point, I couldn't take my eyes off it until it finished. I think if it didn't have an actress the standard of Madeleine Stowe it could have failed miserably, that's not to say the other actors are no good but she is the lead actor so was going to make or break the film. Reminded me a bit of The Machinist, similar unsettling hypnotic intensity. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers does a pretty good American accent.
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Octane
As someone said...quite dreadful...but nicely shot...as to being described as a vampire film...come off it, absolute nonsense... Read more
Published on 24 Nov 2007 by D. Cowan
Avoid at all costs
I liked the title of this film, so I rented it from Amazon, but it was appalling - I don't understand how the other two reviews could say anything positive. Read more
Published on 21 Nov 2005
Great Art Movie
This was a beautifully shot movie with quite a unique twist to your standard vampire film. Only down point was that it had a very slow start.
Published on 3 May 2005
I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think the movie Octane is an amazing movie. I love
Mischa Barton, and I think Jonathan Rhys Meyers is the hotest man on the face of this earth. Read more
Mischa Barton, and I think Jonathan Rhys Meyers is the hotest man on the face of this earth. Read more
Published on 25 Feb 2005 by Brandie Desso
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