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Storm Warning (2007)
Not horror, but a good suspense thriller with a bit of gore.
It's quite a simple storyline, but well executed and menacing enough to keep you interested. A couple of small plot holes, but overall there are some pretty good nail biting moments. I would suspect that the horror genre experts will find it disappointing, but apart from the gore traps, I wouldn't say it was a horror film anyway.
I did however find the brothers more menacing than their father, which was a bit of a disappointment as they had built him up to be as monstrous as the baddie in Wolf Creek ('don't wake Poppy, or you'll wish you hadn't').
Comparisons with Wolf Creek are inevitable and maybe it's time for the Aussies to change what is becoming a stereotyped villain. Scruffy, dirty, unsophisticated, sadistic rednecks.
Certainly worth renting, maybe not to buy.
The Oxford Murders (2008)
Whodunnit, who cares?
Quite honestly, a murder mystery with no element of suspense whatsoever. By the time you get to the end of all the high-brow rubbish dialog, you really wish they'd all died.
In the final sequence Wood's character reveals there has actually only been one murder and the subsequent deaths were made to look like murders by the arrogant professor (Hurt). This finally makes Wood realize that he has no respect left for Hurt's character whereas at the beginning of the film he was positively wetting his pants to be in his company.
We are then expected to believe that a frivolous conversation Wood had with the murderer, led to the murder being committed and is therefore Wood's fault. Wood's character is left speechless and slumped on a chair. Hurt's pride resurrected, all of a sudden his views are to be respected again.
Utter garbage!