Thursday 4 June 2015

Residue (2015) 6/10

Starring : Natalia Tena, Iwan Rheon, Jamie Draven, Danny Webb, Franz Drameh, Adrian Schiller
Director : Alex Garcia Lopez
Running Time : 103 mins

Following an explosion in an area of London, quarantine zones have been erected to keep people away, but photojournalist Jennifer Preston (Tena) decides to investigate by going into the quarantine zone. What she discovers is a deadly paranormal phenomenon that could have the potential to wipe out mankind if someone doesn’t act quickly...

For something that is such a good idea, this was almost hopelessly mismanaged by everyone involved. It almost comes across like the horror movie Shutter, just not as creepy. It might be that this is based off a TV mini-series that makes it feel so disjointed (I haven’t seen the mini-series so it might even be simply a cut down version with 30 minutes cut here and there) but whatever it is this great idea could have been done so much better if there was a bit more characterisation and a little less focus throughout on the government conspiracy.

You’ll like this if you liked : Shutter


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