Storm Warning (DVD)

I originally wrote this review for IMDB where it was copied and put on openguys.org (bastards). Totally unoriginal but reasonably "enjoyable" survival horror from Australia about a couple who get lost whilst fishing and run into some very clichéd inbred backwood red necks. Storm Warning attempts to cash in on the superficially similar recent successes such as Wolf Creek, Wrong Turn and The Hills Have Eyes. Any tension, threat or menace is completely destroyed by the over the top pantomime performances of the villains and the obvious studio setting used for most of the film. There is never any sense that the protagonists are in real danger ...  Read the complete review

A review of just the film, Storm Warning was produced in 2007 and released on DVD in region 2 in 2008. It's pretty cheap online at around £6. Australian Rob and his gorgeous French wife Pia decide to spend the day fishing and messing around on a small boat. As the weather starts to turn colder and less predictable, Pia suggests that they head back to land, but Rob decides that they should make their way round the next headland and find shore that way. After hours of sailing deeper into mangrove swampland, they realise that they are hopelessly lost and as the water gets too shallow for the outboard motor, they drag the craft to land and go in search of help. As ...  Read the complete review