Body At Brighton Rock

Kept me awake!

This limp thriller has a young parks employee, Wendy (Karina Fontes), heading out into the wild to post handbills along a hiking trail. At some point she wanders off the trail and gets lost; of course her cell phone charge dies shortly after she realizes this. In trying to find a spot where her walkie talkie will make a connection she discovers a several days old body. Eeuw. (I’m not being snarky; that’s approximately her reaction.) Now she has to stick around near the corpse until help arrives and deal with another hiker (Casey Adams) – maybe a murderer! – who insists on rummaging through the body’s clothes for identification. Oh, yes, and there’s a bear that – despite much being made of it on the case art – only shows up at practically the end of the film and (SPOILER ALERT) is easily sent packing. From the cheesy, computer generated opening titles (over some of the crappiest music I’ve ever heard) to, well, just about everything else, this film misses the mark and – except for really good photography – looks every bit as low budget as it likely is. It’s essentially supposed to be a study of a young woman finding out she’s stronger and more resourceful than she realizes but Wendy is such a whiner who comes off feeling very entitled that it’s nigh impossible to care about her (particularly as she makes bone-headed decision after bone-headed decision – not that the story could proceed without them). There’s a plot twist at the very end (no, I won’t spoil that) that seems pulled in from another movie. If it is really the point here I’ll just note that Rod Serling used to do this kind of thing more successfully and in one third the time.

Good movie.

Trailer made this movie look more interesting than it actually was. Very misleading

Trailer leaves you interested .. movie is abit S l O W ... it gets better about 15 min before the end.. then about 5 min later .. the story line just gets ,strange, dumb, wierd, dont want to tell you how it ends and Spoil your feeling of wasted time and money..lol.. NO Dont rent something else ..

Ok

Possibly the worst movie I have watched in two or three years. Nonsensical plot; poor acting & casting. Slow as molasses. I am retired and typically watch two movies a day. So when I pan a movie, take it seriously.

I see a lot of reviews calling this movie boring, I watched it on another streaming device. It’s not boring, but it will be if you go in expecting some action movie. This movie is well filmed, and thankfully while dopey and unaware of her job the lead may be, her actress is anything but. Truly. The reason I’m writing this review is because she carried this movie so well, even the bits that were totally outlandish, but that gets cleared up later. I watched this movie via Hulu. Had I bought it I would have been let down, however, now that I watched it I’m kinda wanting to add it to my collection. It’s not my usual film, it was in the horror/ thriller section, I expected more horror. However, once I got into the movie I was just sitting there for the suspense. There are a few downfalls, but again it’s an indie movie and sometimes Dialing down your ideas is hard. A few more edits and this would have been a completely solid film. I think this movie is rental worthy if you are looking for a good film to creep you out before a hike.

Just watched and I loved it! Awesome that it was released on video and theatres at the same time, so I can watch it after our kids go to bed!!

I should of read the reviews. When you watch the trailer, you see the whole movie. Thats it folks, all she wrote. Bad. Just plain bad. Big ol stink bomb.