Storm Warning

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I really wanted to like this film as I'd heard so many good things about it and this is or should have been my kind of film but somewhere it failed to do what it set out to do. Sure, there was a lot of blood splattered in the final ten minutes but almost felt like the blood was unnecessary, as the film throughout didn't seem to warrant this amount of misplaced gore. The film follows the lines of many other films and comparisons will obviously be drawn to 'Wolf Creek' another Aussie suspense horror but far superior to this film. The film makers done a good job with the locations and general look of the film and the three psychos, Poppy and his two sons, who live in the isolated house on the isolated island are performed well by seasoned actors. Sadly the protagonists of the film, a middle-aged man and his younger French girlfriend are not performed so well. The French girl does a much better job in her character but there are some moments that will make you cringe. I could overlook performances in case of other factors but they just don't all add up. The story as mentioned has been done before...better, and the logic of the French girl is beyond me. (SPOILER) For instance, how does an artist who lives in the city suddenly know how to make a fishing rod, 'Saw' Style trap that will rip a man's face off 'Hellraiser' Style? (SPOILER) And the * device, well, that whole scene didn't make any sense. I'm not being sexist in saying I don't like films that have * torture, I thought 'Teeth' was an okay film but in this film it just didn't seem plausible, you'll see what I mean. The psycho family had an edge of comicality about them which I thought was a nice redeeming factor and the hillbilly music at the end was a nice touch that suddenly made me see the film in a different light, I think it was meant to be fun but in a film where a woman is waiting to be raped for a good proportion of the entire film it should have been more suspenseful and much more terrifying. I don't think that there was one moment that actually made me jump or where i felt a bit fearful and this was the problem with the whole film. It aspired to be something great and with the right factors in place it could have been but it turns out as something mediocre and almost comical in it's potentially sick subject matter. A reasonable little film with some nice touches throughout but the suspense is missing and overall could have been so much better. If you want to see how it should have been done then best to go and watch 'Wolf Creek' If you didn't like 'Wolf Creek' then you won't like this film. 4/10

"Storm Warning" is an intense and violent survival horror featuring some of the most inventive graphic blood-letting ever captured on celluloid.It plays like a mix of "Deliverance" and "Straw Dogs".A married couple out boating off the coast of Australia get caught in a storm and end up lost on an isolated island,where they seek shelter in an empty,rundown house,which turns to have three rather unfriendly and sadistic inhabitants.The couple is captured,degraded and tormented;the husband Rob's leg is broken and the wife Pia is targeted for rape...I can't believe that the director of pretty weak teen slasher flicks "Urban Legend" and "Valentine" made this delightfully gruesome and bloody survival horror.The atmosphere of helplessness is well-captured,the acting is remarkable and the parallels with Aussie horror hit "Wolf Creek" are clearly visible.8 out of 10.

Just another survival movie where some naive people on holiday are terrorized by degenerated Ganja-smoking hillbillies. Don't expect any surprise here, the couple will be badly tortured then will get a bloody revenge. It's a sort of Hills Have Eyes with regular people instead of mutants. I gave 5 stars because : the photography is rather nice for this kind of movie the actors are quite convincing there are 2 or 3 fine gore effects. Not bad for its kind but don't expect much.

This movie was so interesting! There were some scenes that are unbelievable! So there is couple who goes out for a fishing trip. A storms coming and the husband, who is not very bright, said that they should follow another way back. So as it is natural they get lost. On their way the see a house and he husband again brake into the house and all hell breaks loose. The woman is the smart character in the movie and starts to craft their way out. I really liked this movie because there were some scenes that made me laugh my head out especially the one with the dog near the end. I have a pretty macabre sense of humor! There is a painful scene with the wife and the dad and later with the dog…And the man would not want to see it… The bottom line is that is not something very special as a movie, but if you have the same macabre sense of humor like I do I think that you will find it interesting. Killer wife!!!!

This an Australian gorefest of something old and definitely something new in the gore department. The story involves a yuppie couple that go on a fishing trip and get off course because of a looming storm, and have to seek refuge on a small island. The island is inhabited by a family including the Daddy, Poppy, and his two demented Sons, who have a very nice crop of pot growing in one of their sheds. This is not really one of those inbred hillbilly confrontations, but it's pretty close. The couple trying to find a phone come across their house, and when the family of lunatics return, the couple are in for a bad night. After the guy's leg is broken by one of the Sons, the couple is locked in a barn, but his French lady friend turns into wonder woman, and creates some traps that work quite effectively against the nutballs. The gore scenes are outstanding, the best being a contraption that should give women with a fear of rape, a good way for prevention. To say the least, when Poppy gets his due, most men will have their legs cross, because it is clearly extremely nasty. I really like this movie, even though we have seen similar plots many times, but what makes this pretty unique are the creative kills, some of which you won't forget anytime soon. And the director throws in some hilarious hillbilly music towards the end of the movie, that seems to fit perfectly. For gorehounds especially, this is one you want for sure, I give it a big thumbs up.

"From the director of Valentine and Urban Legend …" the rental DVD cover exclaims loud and proud, but I'm not entirely sure if this is the best way to promote your film to true horror fans. Even more so, if I were in directors Jamie Blanks' shoes, I would insist to have those two titles removed as it might even cause people to relinquish from seeing "Storm Warning" altogether. Both "Valentine" and "Urban Legend" are mundane, unmemorable and politically correct American teen slashers, whereas "Storm Warning" is a provocatively raw and unhinged piece of Aussie survival horror. Albeit a fairly prototypic product of nowadays hypes and trends (like torture * flicks and the revival of Grindhouse-type movie), "Storm Warning" plays in an entirely different – and superior – league than those infantile teen slashers. It almost feels as if Jamie Blanks returned to his home country Australia and finally got offered the chance to make a legit horror movie after all that confined and disappointing Hollywood crap. But, as indicated already, originality isn't exactly this film's biggest trump. We're overflowed with this sort of horror films nowadays (just think of "Hostel", "Scar", "Wolf Creek", "Blood Trails"…) and, since they pretty much all feature the same plot outline, the final judgement of whether it's "good" or "bad" almost fully relies on how gory, shocking and sadistic the film is. Fans of rough and nasty can be reassured; "Storm Warning" reaches an extremely high score on the repulsiveness-scale! The film takes off slow and moodily unsettling, but in the last twenty or so minutes all hell breaks loose and we're treated to a handful outrageously engrossing and surprisingly ingenious torture sequences. A young couple making a sailboat day trip lose their sense of direction and can't return to the harbor because of a suddenly uprising storm. They strand on a remote island and seek shelter in a seemingly abandoned farmhouse. Then, of course, the farmers return and turn out to be two menacing, perverted and psychopathic brothers …. And then the couple hasn't even met their "poppy" yet. The first hour of this short but effective little Aussie shocker is slow but nevertheless suspenseful. Director Blanks clearly adores long pan shots of the ocean and the darkening clouds, but somehow these images set the exact right tone for the events to come. Later on, "Storm Warning" is truly hardcore-to-the-bone, with the French girl suddenly transforming into a do-it-yourself avenging angel! There's also a rather uncomfortable moment involving a cute wallaby and – hands down – the most agonizing * moment since that infamous scene in "I Spit on your Grave". Nadia Farès is a ravishing lady to look at and particularly the three native Aussie freaks (David Lyons, Mathew Wilkinson and John Brumpton as Poppy) are marvelously convincing.

Look, I am someone who loves horror, someone who will watch ANYTHING with horror in the synopsis, but this is beyond the ridiculous. Yes, its Australian which reduces its credibility somewhat but hey I did see and enjoy Wolfcreek, but this movie combines a stupid stupid story line with Aussie acting and ends up with a hideous result - storm warning. why anyone would walk in that house in the first place? wrap themselves in a blanket off that "sofa"? take a shower instead of running away? stab a wallaby instead of the perps? let me tell you it all beggars belief....I live in Oz and understand that they are basically an ugly ugly people but someone is definitely taking advantage of this with Storm Warning, 0/10 if that is allowed - its crap!!

After reading comments from various users I thought this movie would be worth watching. It turned out the opposite. According to me a horror flick should scare you but in this case it does not. It just contains more gore and nothing more. Except the soundtrack there is nothing in the movie which is worth talking about. The story is a bit stretched with dull scenes present from time to time. The basic plot is about a couple who gets stuck in a secluded place near the shore. Here they meet three guys who are kinda barbarians and thus they get into trouble. Absolutely disappointed to be honest.

'Storm Warning' started off well, but soon degenerated into one of the silliest movies I've seen for a long time. Its the classic tale of Pia & Rob, two well to do urbanites who fall foul of the inhabitants of a secluded farmhouse. Facing likely death, it is the woman Pia who takes on the three deranged villains. It's obvious the captors were not supposed to be smart, but the level of stupidity they display is incredible - would anyone imprison captives in a barn full of potential weapons? Earlier in the movie while Pia was fishing, she was so physically inept she couldn't manage to reel in a fish, but she miraculously turns into a female John Rambo whenever the plot requires it. Add a bloodthirsty guard dog who conveniently disappears every time Pia is running about and other implausible actions by all you have a very disappointing movie. On the plus side, the performances from all involved are excellent, but they deserved to be in a better written movie than this one. Gore fans will love it though.