While loyal acolytes obsess over the possibility Hammer Horror's golden age might be resurrected, Nick Cohen's The Reeds is one of a small number of UK genre pictures in recent years with an approach you could far better think of as actually 'British'. This has its pros and cons; The Reeds is far too often ramshackle, charmingly amateurish and questionably coherent. But it's also ambitious, thoughtful stuff, parts of it are beautifully put together, and it makes for ninety minutes of fairly effective if undemanding scruffy, lo-fi horror.
Its main hook is its location, shot out in the Norfolk wilderness. On paper it seems like a British Deliverance - a group of reckless, fun-loving city folk on a boating holiday, out to get drunk and patronise the cretinous locals but finding themselves trailed by snarling things lurking in the fens. They're all conveniently paired off, nice girl with nice guy,...
Its main hook is its location, shot out in the Norfolk wilderness. On paper it seems like a British Deliverance - a group of reckless, fun-loving city folk on a boating holiday, out to get drunk and patronise the cretinous locals but finding themselves trailed by snarling things lurking in the fens. They're all conveniently paired off, nice girl with nice guy,...
- 11/3/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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