Review of Wilderness (2006) by Leo K — 13 Apr 2008
This is a version of The Most Dangerous Game, but with cockney juvenile prison inmates. It's also one of the best written, best acted horror movies I have ever seen.
The characters are compellingly well-drawn, and fantastically realized by the young cast. Toby Kebbell, in particular, is a terrifically gifted actor (watch him as the mentally-challenged younger brother in "Dead Man's Shoes" if you don't believe me). He's like the British Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
And Stephen Wight, a young actor whose ImDb resume consists almost entirely of BBC episodic TV, delivers his villainous performance with enough originality and evil joie de vivre to become a contender for the British Ben Foster.
Seriously. Joe Levitt and Ben Foster. That's just about the highest praise I can give a pair of young actors.
If horror movies are your thing, like they are mine, and you're tired of unoriginal, unintelligent, watered-down shit masquerading as horror, like I am, give this a watch.
This review of Wilderness (2006) was written by Leo K on 13 Apr 2008.
Wilderness has generally received mixed reviews.
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