I've always been a fan of these type of films, where a small group of people find themselves isolated and encounter really creepy things, like the first Blair Witch, Session 9, Open Water, Wolf Creek and Breakdown. I just love how those flicks get under your skin.
Any other films similar to this one?
Cabin Fever, although it wasn't nearly as good as this film. Also "Children Of The Corn". Now THAT gave me the creeps!
Lisa
cabin fever? that one sorta reminded me more of the evil dead...and children of the corn? that show freaked me out when i was a kid but is way too cheesy and lame looking back now...i was thinking more along the lines of jacob's ladder, session 9, blair witch project, the last broadcast...good *beep* like that...there's this peter weir flick i've been wanting to catch for ages called the last wave...sounds pretty promising
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In Cabin Fever a small group of people find themselves isolated and encounter really creepy things. (People appearing out of nowhere and people with weird medical conditions...I'd call that pretty creepy!)
In Children Of The Corn a small group of people find themselves isolated and encounter really creepy things. (Arriving in an apparently desserted town where the kids have killed everyone and there's nothing but corn in sight! If that's not creepy I don't know what is!!)
I agree that the latter is cheesey now but back in the day when I saw it (mid-80s) I was seriously freaked!
There are other films along the same lines (Wrong Turn, Wolf Creek) which, let's be honest here, no one is going to win any acting awards for but still pretty watchable.
I've not heard anything about the Peter Weir flick you mentioned but I'll be keeping my eyes open for that! If you see it before I do then please do let me know!
Lisa
The Peter Weir film, 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' is greatness as well.
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Burnt Offerings. Small family "trapped" in a house rather than stranded somewhere. Don't want to give too much away but don't miss it. Freaky!!
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shareLost Things (Teens encounter the required things)
Re-Cycle (A writer encounters the required things, it's an Asian movie)
Dead End (A family encounters the required things, this one is my all-time favorite of this genre, pretty bizarre!)
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shareDon't know about films but you ought to check out a short story by Algernon Blackwood called "The Willows." That one involves two men camping out in an isolated spot in the Danube, where malevolent forces of nature seem to be after them the entire time. That one also involves a strange black creature of sorts following them around in the water! Another story of his, "The Wendigo" might be of interest too (that one's about a larger group of men camping out in the Canadian wilderness only to have to deal with, well, a wendigo).
shareThe Ruins (2008)
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