A Lonely Place To Die (VOD)
| release date | November 3 2011 |
| studio | IFC Films |
| director | Julian Gilbey |
| writer | Julian Gilbey, William Gilbey |
| starring | Melissa George, Ed Speleers, Sean Harris, Karel Roden |
| site | facebook.com/pages/A-Lonely-Place-To-Di |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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What’s to me has been a pretty lackluster year for gripping thrillers A Lonely Place To Die is a refreshing and well executed one that has a solid payoff. The acting was solid from everyone though their accents kind of got in the way and was distracting and sometimes hard to understand but the highlight here was Melissa George in her best leading performance yet. The balance of themes like survival, kidnapping/ransom, stalk and kill, cat and mouse, revenge and action was steller and close to perfection and though most of that is all too familiar by now it hasn’t been as effective as this one in as long as I can remember. When it gets down and dirty it doesn’t hold back and I’m not saying that it’s overly graphic but just very intense and suspenseful which is most of the time way better than a splatterfest but just good old fashioned. The filming of the raw, haunting atmosphere was fantastic and has edge, it was breathtaking in intensity and beauty and the fact that it jumps to different locations and not stay at one the whole time added to the thrill in a rollercoaster ride of a chase and fight for safety in a lonely place where no one can here you scream, very harrowing stuff. Overall this is the best thriller of the year and deserved to be a wide theaterical release because to me it puts the wide released ones like Drive, Hanna and the Straw Dogs remake to shame, studios back this one up now so it can get a proper wide release that it should certainly earn. Recommended! 7.5 out of 10
I saw “A Lonely Place To Die” in a dark and deserted place called “Loughborough”. I’ve never heard of it myself but they have a cinema there and because “A Lonely Place To Die” has suffered like many other great British horror films like “Eden Lake” from very poor advertising we were put into the Â
A Lonely Place to Die remembered me of the french Vertige (High Lane), but done right.
Great film that switches gears from a mountain climbing adventure to something James Bond might get caught up in. I went into it without a trailer and loved how the story was unpredictable and tense while avoiding all the typical screenplay cliches. Definitely an edge-of-your-seater. Giving it a 7.5 via the seven – not really horror in the end but genre fans should dig it.
It had its moments of tension but had one too many plotlines that it jumped back and forth between. Expecting it might be a movie about the fears of rock-climbing, it instead jumps to the fear of kidnappers, to the fear of local police, to the fear of–well, you get the idea. As mentioned, it definitely had moments of fear, but its attempt at keeping the viewer’s focus by including multiple storylines made me care about none of them. more information here:
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Another Scottish horror-related film, another letdown. “A Lonely Place To Die” is as disappointing as “Outcast” or “Kill List”, movies that start out brilliant but end up dissatisfying.
The first 40 minutes are excellent: a stunning “High Lane”-like opening scene, lots of fantastic suspense, many “Deliverance”-like scenes, a tremendous amount of gorgeous and very well filmed mountains and landscapes, a powerful score, good acting performances and a few surprising shocks.
Then a major plot twist kicks in and turns the movie from tense survival-horror to mediocre kidnap-action-thriller that looks like a bland version of “Shoot To Kill”. Ok, we get introduced to 2 impressively cold-blooded villains, and we get to see a few fabulously filmed kills – but the damage was already done and I just couldn’t get into the film anymore. Especially the last 20-25 minutes and the pointless ending completely sucked.
When it’s done right, I have no problem with a movie that mixes various genres together – but when it’s done wrong… oh boy, that can really piss me off
Hell, I wanted a kick-ass survival-horror, just like the trailer suggested – but all I got was a beautiful, but completely unconvincing and forgettable b-thriller. *sigh* Next!
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Was looking forward to it but what a disappointment. First half was alright but then it just went to shit.