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| 26 August 2012 (USA)
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The Draymen Estate has become an urban legend. Amongst the sinister stories of unsavoury locals and brutal violence, several people have apparently gone missing. Even the police won't go there. Enter two naive student filmmakers with a well-meaning plan to make a sympathetic documentary of life on the estate. The unlucky duo quickly discovers that problems of drugs and crime in this community go way beyond the norm. This is a community which is about to present the students with material of unimaginable horror - turning their final project int their darkest nightmare.

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FlashCallahan

The Draymen Estate has become something of an urban legend. Among the stories of locals and brutal violence, several people have apparently gone missing. But even the police won't go there. Two student filmmakers with a well-meaning plan to make a sympathetic documentary of life on the estate. They soon discover, that problems of drugs and crime in this community go way beyond the norm. A community, which is about to present the students with material of unimaginable horror turning their project into mayhem......Good British horrors are few and far between, and just lately, they have been increasingly harder to find thanks to film studios making the cases seem more desirable than the film itself.Just go down to your local supermarket and see the slew of horror films on the new release shelf for £7.99, they look quite good, just from the case. Now make a list of them, come back here, and see how poorly rated they actually are.Never judge a book by its cover.This however, is a different kettle of fish altogether. The film doesn't have anything original about it, documentary crew go to a notorious estate that houses the most abhorrent looking and acting people you have ever met, and instantly, you are reminded of The Hills Have Eyes.Anybody with an iota of common sense would have just turned and walked away, but for once,the film at least has a little bit of an explanation for the students doing so.It's pretty tense once we get to the notorious estate, there's anger brewing from the locals, and it seems only a super drug can settle their agitation.But that's not the main plot point in this film, there is something far more bizarre in the film, and this is where it plays its Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets Harry Brown card.So for a British horror that has gone straight to DVD, it's pretty solid stuff, but you still get the heroes making silly decisions and just doing the wrong thing all through the film.That's why we love horror films, is they make us appreciate common sense.

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deborahjlane

Don't know why so many people have given this bad reviews, maybe they like the typical Hollywood schlock.I just found this very refreshing.I'm not really a fan of writing wordy reviews so I won't say too much here but it's definitely worth a watch for the uniqueness of it.There's suspense, gore, intensity and fun. It's not a costly blockbuster so don't expect loads of flashy sets and explosions but because it's low budget the whole look and feel of it is just perfect. Raw.It's low key but in your face and keeps it more 'real' than some glossy movie on the cover of Empire mag. If you like something a little bit different then I say it's worth taking a chance on. A cheeky little number.

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lathe-of-heaven

Okay, this IS indeed a very low budget film; that is pretty obvious. And, usually those can be screwed up VERY easily. However, I honestly found myself quite enthralled and very much drawn into this SERIOUSlY F'd up little community.First and foremost, I cannot say enough about the excellent use of sound in this film. I noticed a number of similar comments about this from other reviewers here. EXTREMELY effective... I personally really love it when they get super creative with the sound design in Horror films because when it is done right, it really can add to the mood and atmosphere, around which this movie is solidly constructed.You notice that in all the positive reviews here, that just about EVERYONE mentions the word 'Creepy'...? Well, that is because that is PRECISELY the word that embodies this film. Another thing that I personally appreciated too, was that this movie could have very easily descended into the mind-numbingly boring and ineffective 'Torture Porn' territory. For my taste, I am really glad that they used a measure of restraint so that we could more fully enjoy the type of mood that they were trying to create. And, in my lowly and wretched opinion, I thought they did a very good job with what and who they had. The setting was definitely there to exploit the violence for it's own sake. But, thankfully the film makers were intelligent enough to see exactly where the strengths of this little low budget film were and emphasized them appropriately. Man, ONLY in the UK can they make films like this (ones like 'CITADEL', for example) where they create this powerful, almost otherworldly Mythology about these types of neighbourhoods that is most effective.Also too, a person who watches this film MUST realize that at times they are using Pitch Black humour, so dark it is almost opaque. The idea, which I'm not going to go into here because it is sort of a Spoiler, but the main premise is certainly unique, something that I have never thought of before, that's for sure. So, this is one of those movies where they are building a mythology and premise that one needs to be able to accept in order to enjoy it. IF you are a hard core 'Realist' and want ALL of your movies to be FULLY realistic and if you are one to roll your eyes if ANYTHING at all strays from what is 'Believable', then you will definitely not like this film. As another good reviewer here said, you MUST be able to suspend disbelief and really allow yourself to get pulled into the story in order to enjoy it, and I completely agree...I cannot stress this enough, but IF you are the kind of person who likes these kinds of films, then TOTALLY ignore the meaningless 3.x rating and give it a try.

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rushknight

This movie has everything necessary to achieve a nice little tale of horror. A fairly original plot line, reasonable acting by everyone, a good setting, nice editing, directing and sound effects. What more could you need right?Unfortunately, it makes the mistake of being utterly predictable almost all the way through. It's really sad when a movie tries very hard, only to fall into the too often used clichés that are the salt and spice of horror films.I won't bother listing these clichés. If you watch the film you'll see them easily enough, and you'll probably agree with me that they sort of pull the originality out of the film. Even that would be forgivable, but the clichés themselves seem to actually DIRECT the flow of the film, leading it to a predictable finish. It's almost as if I could ask myself leading questions every few minutes:"They're doing _____, so that means that later _____ will happen." "The main character won't stop doing _____, so later on _____ will happen." "The whole plot is based on _____, therefore _____ type of ending will occur."etc. Sadly, I was right at least 90% of the time.It's not a waste of time to watch though, all in all it's a reasonable little thriller. Watch it with a friend or two.

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