Well. I finally got around to seeing this. I meant to see it in the theaters, honestly, but for some reason I just didn’t make it. Even with all the talk of it being one of the best horror movies made in years and breaking new ground and all that. Turns out that’s not quite the case. This movie is easily one of the most referential things I’d ever seen in my life, almost swiping entire scenes from a whole hand full of movies. If you saw it you know what I mean, if you didn’t, here’s a quick run down of just the first bit…

The “ripping the tubs out at the hospital” scene is totally 28 Days Later
The “driving through windy hills shot from above” scene is totally The Shining
The “creepy cabin in the middle of nowhere” scene is totally Evil Dead
The lake they keep driving past looks like it’s straight out of Friday The 13th
Every forest scene is straight out of Deliverance
Once they are in the caves they alternate from Alien to Blair Witch. And they do it with supper attention to details, all the way down to the dripping slime from the Alien Mutants mouth while he’s watching them and they don’t know it and the shaky camcorder vision.
And the mutants themselves, was it just me or were they just the orcs from Lord of the Rings sans armor.
And finally, The blond girl covered in blood running around getting revenge is so Carrie it hurts.

I know this is a British film originally, but do people there not notice this kind of shit?

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