Wilderness (DVD)

When Davie, an inmate at a Young Offenders Institution commits suicide due to bullying by fellow prisoners, the inmates within his dormitory are sent away to a remote island once known as an Army training base. Under the supervision of a Prison Officer, these young men are sent packing, ready for some character building alone on the island. It soon becomes apparent that they are not alone; someone, or something has inhabited the island. As the inmates are picked off one by one, in some of the most gruesome deaths imaginable, they are lead to believe their is more to this than meets the eye... A twist ending reveals this isn't a coincidence, and everything is unearthed in ...  Read the complete review

In a detention centre for young offenders, two particularly vulnerable inmates suffer at the hands of the other boys. After one particularly humiliating incident, one of the two (Davie) cannot take any more and kills himself. Incensed by the apparent lack of concern from the poor boy’s room mates, the governor instructs the supervising officer to “take them to the island and teach them a lesson.” Within hours, the boys are packed and travelling to a remote island, where they will fend for themselves with no more than the contents of their rucksacks. Although the island (a former military training centre) is supposed to be abandoned, the group comes across ...  Read the complete review

"Wilderness" begins in a male young offenders institution, where conditions are pretty harsh. Offenders are locked in dark, damp cells with up to nine other inmates. Bullying is ripe in the institution, and tends to be focused towards two of the most timid inmates, until one morning one of these "targets", Davey, is found dead in his bed having slashed his own wrists. The prison warden demands action be taken, and the inmates are sent to a supposedly uninhabited island off the UK mainland on a survival / teambuilding exercise. It soon becomes apparant that they are not alone, and one by one the inmates meet gruesome ...  Read the complete review