I watch a lot of horror films. Most of them are OK, some are dreadful and on occasions some are truly memorable. Storm Warning is definitely one of the more memorable ones.
It starts off with a couple who rent a boat to go fishing and end up getting lost on their way back. Once they get to shore they start walking and when they get to a road they see what appears to be a dead body, wrapped in a sheet, dumped out the back of a pick up truck. They eventually find a house in the middle of no-where and decide to break in as no-one answers the door. The justification for breaking in being that "it's OK because there's no-one home"! Weird. So far, so cliché. However, once the owners arrive back, things start to get interesting.
What follows is a tense, and at times disturbing, game of cat and mouse. At one stage the couple have the upper hand, then the home owners and the momentum is constantly swinging backwards and forwards that at times you wonder who will end up "winning". There are some very gory moments and a bit towards the end that will guarantee to make every man watching it wince.
Overall this is a very standard horror film. However, with good performances all round, and some genuinely surprising moments, it manages to lift itself above many similar films. It stays in the memory after it's over rather than a lot of horrors that you forget you have ever seen before the credits have finished.