Review of Primal (2010) by Jason J — 17 Sep 2011

A decent enough Aussie horror. The movie is about a group of young people who go camping only to have one of them go swimming and getting leeches on her. After that she becomes infected and starts getting sharp teeth and attacking others. Also there's a cave that harbours an unknown creature.

Sharp dialogue, believable characters and some pretty nifty visual and makeup effects make this an entertaining and undemanding, often quite subversive time waster. It's not going to win any awards but that's never the intention with a something like this. At a brisk 84 minutes it doesn't hang around long enough to become self indulgent or boring and just when you think you know where it's going the screenwriter throws another curve-ball your way. Definitely not for the squeamish but a must for anyone else who isn't fussed by cheap effects and just wants a satisfactory thrill.