Shadow
(IFC Midnight DVD)
Picture:
B- Sound: B- Extras: D Film: B-
A young
soldier goes on leave for a mountain-biking trip and meets a young beautiful
girl who joins him. Unfortunately, their
time together is cut short when two drunken-thrill seeking hunters decide to
make the young couple their next prey. After
a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the woods both sides are lost and wounded
in mysterious shadows of the mountain, but when they are all caught by a
reclusive mountain dweller they find themselves tied up in his basement of
horrors, his plans soon becomes all too apparent... let's just say
he isn't there to help them in Shadow.
What started out as a relaxing vacation soon become tale of survival, then
into horror. A legend of a group of
village people who were chase into the mountains long ago and mercilessly
slaughtered, their ghost haunts the mountain... and those who stray from the
path are said to be never found again. The main character is first hunted by two
hunters, but when they are all caught by a mad mountain man they put their
differences aside after when they see what this Golem-like man has planned for
them, including torture, mutilation, and that’s him just getting warmed
up...
If you are into horror and not faint of heart then this film will leave you
afraid to sleep at night. What started
out as a trip in a beautiful mountainside soon turns into a ghoulish nightmare. Imagine a pale-white-hairless man has you
tied up on a table in his blood soaked basement, any attempts escape are met
with cruel traps. Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire. What is sort of odd in this story is I
noticed how a single lone hermit is able to maintain and power his home, truck
and devices so deep in the mountains (which includes electrifying metal tables
until a man can be cooked alive on top of it, the power which needed for
such devices like that are enormous), not to mention he seems to have a
underground basement larger than his house with an extensive tunnel system? The movie's end has a surprising twist much
like the movie The Usual Suspects. Extras include trailer and making of the film.
- Ricky Chiang
