Review of Citadel (2012) by Kristian J — 16 Jan 2013

Citadel an Irish film directed by Ciaran Foy. Starring Aneurin Barnard, James Cosmo.

Film centers around a young widower who is battling demons both actual and figurative. After witnessing a brutal attack on his pregnant wife by a band of marauding kids - Tommy (Aneurin Barnard) is left with paralyzing agoraphobia and a baby daughter he can barely relate to. He is trapped in an anonymous concrete desert where transport is scarce and utilities unreliable. Tommy gets introduced to an angry old priest (James Cosmo) who turns out to have a connection to the murderous minors.

I's been really long since I have experience real sense of horror movie, Citadel has proved its intensity of where horror genre really should take the audience. It touches the core of the sentiments of the central character and the skins off his fear. Just a few characters and what a combined result of such plot. You hardly get stuff like this these days, especially when there is lack of intelligent filmmaking on horror genre.