Friday, November 11, 2011

RAVE - A Lonely Place to Die

5 adventurers in Scotland discover what they think is a Croatian girl left abandoned in a hole in the ground.

Like a number of recent British films, this is a horror movie with a very different pace, and none of the histrionics that come with American horror movies.

Mountaineering scenes remind me why I never want to climb any higher than the second floor in our house. The only time I've been close to real climbing - a couple hundred feet of abseiling in Scotland - stamped this sickly grimace on my face that made everyone but me laugh. Ugh. Never again!

The requisite near death experiences while climbing develop into a tense story, with twist after twist. 

While out hiking, they hear screams for help coming from underground and find a young girl who has been buried in a hole by persons unknown.

The group of 5 splits up (never a good idea, and one of the only early indicators of this being a horror movie) with the 2 best climbers heading for the fast way down off the mountain to get help, and the other 3 staying with the young girl but needing to get away from the place where she had been abandoned.

When they encounter the crew that left the girl in that hole, things (and I'm sure you've expected this) go downhill from there.

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