Body At Brighton Rock

This is not a great movie. It is not even a good movie. I found myself getting very annoyed at the protagonist. She was a silly little girl. It was okay, and what made it an okay movie is the subtle twist at the end: it was a ghost story with a little boo! I think they charged too much for this one. However, I very heartily encourage viewers to check out XX on Netflix. That was a very good and very scary anthology.

Thankfully, I did not spend my money on this terrible TERRIBLE movie. I did not order this from Amazon, but Ive seen it, unfortunately. It should have negative stars, zero is too high. I am a certified scaredy cat and usually will have to cover my eyes and ears during scary movies. The only reason I wanted to close my eyes during this movie is because it was so boring. Painfully. BORING. The most interesting part of the movie and only real violence lasts for about 5 minutes at the very end. The big twist didnt even make sense--it seemed like the creative vision was really unsure of which direction to take this story, so they just put a little of everything (yet also nothing at all)... She spends 90% of the movie just sitting down or pacing around the same spot in the woods, not interacting with anyone or anything. They are seemingly doing some heavy-handed foreshadowing at the VERY beginning, which made it seem like wayyyy more (or, ya know, anything at all) was going to happen, but it doesnt. I wanna say this movie was so bad that its ridiculous, but even ridiculous things can be entertaining. I dont usually write reviews, especially go out of my way to do so, but this movie is just such a waste of time and fills me with an annoyance I cant quite describe. Save yourselves

Entertaining.

Only 2 stars cause it was based in the 80s. The actors must have done this for free to get exposure.

Not that great

This was one of the saddest excuses of a movie that I have ever wasted time watching. The character, Wendy was completely unbelievable. Acting as a park employee, she did EVERYTHING a park employee should not do. Dont waste your money. Seriously.

It’s difficult to make a truly original horror film. So much has been done before and fresh ideas are difficult to pull off no matter how talented the director. With that in mind BODY AT BRIGHTON ROCK is a movie that does its best but in the end is offers mediocre scares. At least director/writer Roxanne Benjamin deserves credit for trying. Wendy (Karina Fontes) is a part-time park ranger at a major national park filled with beautiful countryside and mountainous terrain. Not as skilled as her friends she opts to trade one of them to cover replacing signs along the trails of one of the more difficult areas. All goes fine until she gets lost in those mountains and then comes across a dead body. Near Brighton Rock on the map she calls in her location, at least where she thinks she is, and reports the body. Even though in an area with bears roaming around she’s told that she will have to make camp and stay there with the body until the following morning, it’s too late for a chopper to successfully land nearby. She follows her instructions but then strange things begin happening. The first is that while on a nearby mountain top she sees someone checking out the body. She tells him to leave it alone and has a conversation with him. He tells her he lives nearby and that he saw the body. Eventually they part ways and he leaves her to her lone vigil. It is during this night alone with a dead body nearby that things begin to happen. The question becomes are they really happening or is it an overactive imagination fueled by her surroundings. On top of that the question of her hallucinating the things she’s seeing is brought forward. It’s a harrowing night and one that she’s not likely to forget but it is the twist at the end you won’t see coming that elevates this film from what it was at the beginning. Making a horror film that takes place in a national park (unless of course it’s another teens getting killed by mad slasher flick) is not an easy task. It’s even more difficult when you rely on a single character and a dead body to move the story forward. But Benjamin does an admirable job of making the film a bit of a frightener. Perhaps not for the die-hard horror fanatic but definitely for the more average film goer. Fontes does a decent job here as well but it would be nice to see her in a meatier role before praising or condemning her as an actress. From what is seen here she has great potential. As for the rest of the cast their parts are small enough that they’re not quite noticeable enough to comment on. The end result is a movie that offers some chills and spills and a few quick laughs but mostly has you rooting for this new ranger. If you place yourself in her shoes you have to wonder if you would have chosen to spend the night with a dead body in the middle of bear infested woods or not. Let’s hope none of us ever have to make that call and if so that you’ve not seen this movie beforehand.

This is a great survival thriller premise, but its lost in the lack of tension and poor acting. I really wanted to like the movie as its description is right up my alley, and so much could have been done with the film to make it engaging, so it just made me feel frustrated that Id spent time and money on it when there was no development of the plot whatsoever. The main character is completely uncharismatic and I had no feeling one way or another about whether I wanted her to survive. Dont waste your time--there are many other movies that you should watch before this one.

This movie is awesome IF you appreciate indie films. I love everything about this movie.

Super low budget, CW level acting, and a main character who is written to be so unlikable that I struggled to finish the thing. Pretty bad movie