The Cottage (DVD)

When David and Peter kidnap Tracey, the step-daughter of a powerful villain, they think that their fortunes are made. Unfortunately, nothing quite goes to plan. Tracey's step-brother, Andrew, who is part of the plot, is supposed to deliver the ransom money, but doesn't check the bag and it turns out to be tissue paper. And Tracey is not going to be held without a fight. When David goes out to make a phone call, he returns to find that Tracey has run off, after decking Andrew, taking Peter with her. Added to the mix are two Chinese hit-men who have followed Andrew and a village full of very strange people. Will any of them escape with their lives? I really ...  Read the complete review

From director Paul Andrew Williams (London to Brighton), 'The Cottage' is a comedy horror film which originally achieved a UK cinematic release in March 2008. This dark British film stars Andy Serkis, Reece Shearsmith, and Jennifer Ellison. Brothers David and Peter come up with a master plan in order to bag a large sum of cash between them. The plan is that they'll kidnap the daughter of a big time gangster, hold her hostage, and demand £100,000 ransom. It all seems so simple, it doesn't quite go according to plan however and before long everything starts to go wrong for the two brothers. As the £100,000 looks increasingly less likely to become theirs, things ...  Read the complete review

It was fairly clear from the start of this movie which direction the makers of this film were going to take, especially once we were introduced to Jennifer Ellison. She's a pretty blond with a nice rack but talk about over concentrating on 1 thing. Cleavage, cleavage & more cleavage. I guess Jen must have agreed to do everything they were doing to try & get her foot in the door of movies but doing that kind of thing is only going to get her very typecast in all the wrong kind of roles. Andy Serkis (Dog Soldiers, Lord Of The Rings) plays his role well enough, Reece Sheersmith (The League Of Gentlemen) plays the more timid and bumbling criminal OK too, ...  Read the complete review

The Cottage is another in a recent run of British attempts to make a quality comedy horror, a genre that is decidedly difficult to pull off. 99 times out of 100 the comedy just isn't funny enough and the scary parts are anything but that, often being funnier, unintentionally, than the parts that are meant to make you laugh. The Cottage is also unfortunate to have appeared at a time when out and out slasher horrors have made a resurgence, a genre that the horror side of The Cottage fits squarely into. On the plus side it is physically impossible for it to be as bad as the Irish film 'Shrooms' which was released around the same time! ...  Read the complete review

This was a genuine surprise of a movie for me. I mean, i was expecting some low budget trash with very few laugh, but since i am a horror fiend, and it was only 2 quid with post and packaging on amazon, i thought why the hell not? What i got was an unexpectably enjoyable British comedy horror movie, which could well be the best out there if it weren't for Shaun of The Dead. Plot- David (Andy Serkis) and Peter (Reece Shearsmith) are a pair of fairly opposite brothers. David is aggressive and tough whereas Peter is soft and manipulated by his wife. The pair are hiding out in a cottage in the woods after they have kidnapped a gang boss's daughter, Tracey ...  Read the complete review