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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
british horror at its best!, 2 Jun 2009
I cannot wait for this movie to come out on dvd. It was given a very limited cinema release earlier this year and me and my girlfriend were lucky enough to get to see it.
There have been some great british horror films recently such as eden lake and the children but for my money this is the best one yet. The story follows a young couple who are traveling down a busy rain swept motorway stopping at service stations to change the posters on display. The couple are not getting along and its clear their relationship is almost over. They are stuck in a traffic jam and to their horror the back door of the lorry in front of them flips open briefly to reveal a semi naked girl chained and screaming for help.
The lad phones the police who dont seem that bothered and the lorry drives away. The girlfriend is furious with her boyfriends reluctance to get involved and at the next service station tells him she is leaving him. He then notices the same lorry parked in the car park and no sign of his girlfriend only her dropped necklace on the floor.
A life and death chase now begins as the young man tries to find his missing girlfriend and outwit the cloaked and hooded figure who is driving the lorry.
This film is packed with suspenseful moments and i was literally clinging to the edge of my seat at some points particularly the scene where our hero is stalked through a maze of lorry containers by the films never named or fully glimsed villain. Having our villain silent is also a brilliant concept reminicent of michael myers in the original halloween.
I really recommed all fans of the horror genre check out this little gem of a film and those who missed its cinema run should really get the dvd. Its frightening and suspenseful. Watch it!
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Looked promising but was generally disappointing, 21 July 2009
HUSH is a British horror/thriller where a young couple are driving up the M1 on a stormy night putting up posters in the toilets at the service stations. Along the way they quickly see a girl who is being held captive in the back of a lorry. They try to help her but due to dirt on the number plate and wanting to get their poster job finished, it's not quite as easy as just phoning the police. Before they know it, the hooded lorry driver has them in pursuit.
When I'd read about this, I thought it was going to be a British remake or re-imagining of Steven Spielberg's classic DUEL (one of my favourite films) and the more recent and very enjoyable ROADKILL, so I was quite looking forward to seeing this. Although the story is very similar and is quite tense for a majority of the film and very atmospheric, this really was so inferior to the other two films I mentioned before, mainly because of bad plot decisions and possibly the dumbest lead character I have ever came across that was also terribly irritating. It was also very predictable with lots of clichéd scenes that we've all seen in tonnes of similar films before it. The acting was fairly decent though and the heated arguments between the two lead characters was very believable, but this wasn't enough to save it from being a below average horror that I am not surprised for a second it's not more known about.
I'm glad I only rented this as it would have been a waste of a tenner or so, so overall I'd give this a miss and watch DUEL or ROADKILL instead as they are both much better films in every way.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
More like a big cheer, 24 Sep 2009
A couple are making their way down the M1, but to say their relationship was fractuous would be an understatement. Zakes(William Ash) and Beth(Christine Bottomley)are barely speaking to eachother and when they do every comment is laced with barbed wire. Then a truck pulls out in front of them, and Zakes glimpses what he thinks is a woman in a cage in the back as it passes. He reports it to the police, but is reluctant to follow the truck further, much to the chagrin of Beth. When they stop at the next Service Station, Beth tells Zakes that their relationship is over, but then Beth dissapears and Zakes is drawn into a night of terror, from which there seems no escape.
So, why is this British horror so damn good? Well theres the believable characters and dialogue for a start. Also, the way that director Tonderai squeezes every last drop of tension from even the most mundane of situations. Then theres the superb camera work, and the two excellent performances from the two leads.
With British horror in such capable hands , theres good reason to expect a rosy future for both the industry and for Tonderai, as its hard to believe that this was his directorial debut, as the film is so accomplished. An excellent, suspenseful little horror/thriller. 5 out of 5
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