Thursday, 12 February 2009

Rogue, 2007

Without a doubt, my favourite Horror this year. As you can guess from the picture, it's about a man-eating crocodile – yay! Rhada Mitchell is the 'leading lady' and she's perfect in the role. It starts off quite tame and gives you plenty of time to take in the absolutely breath-taking scenery (Northern Territories in Oz). But don't worry, it soon hots up when the 'rogue' croc arrives and starts bumping off the characters. Matt and I tried to work out who would pop their clogs first and what sort of elaborate death it would be – but we were way off! There's a bit where they are all trying to make their escape where I actually took to screaming at the TV, to will them to go faster. I tell you one thing that I WON'T be doing after watching this film and that's skinny dippping at night!

SECOND OPINION: I pitched this one to Rach as a grown-up Lake Placid. But my, how it's grown up. Forget creature features and alligators in the sewers, this is as real as monster movies get.
Now, I was no fan of Wolf Creek; I thought it was mostly screaming, with relentlessly bleak scenes and very stupid girls who, honestly, deserved everything they got. You don't just hope you've killed the guy who's been torturing and murdering your friends, make damn sure of it. Anyway I digress. Rogue has the same style as Wolf Creek, it's very real, but with a little humour here and there to lighten things up.
So, our band of croc happy tourists answer a distress call in a remote area of Australia. When they arrive there's nothing but an upturned boat and in no time they're desperately making for a small island before their boat sinks too. Unfortunately for them they're in a tidal lake and that small island is about to get much, much smaller.
If you do watch this film, and you should because it's exhaustingly exciting, remember the movie croc is around 7m from tail tip to snout. Real crocs can go over 7.5m long and an 8m croc was once reported. It's real, scary and thrilling. 'Jaws with crocodiles' hardly does it justice!

1 comment:

  1. I would love to post a brilliant comment on this but when having the opportunity to view Rogue(second time round for the Bishops) I slept all the way through it - SORRY! I have ordered it on Lovefilm though so I'll be able to put a review on soon!

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