Director: Josh Reed.
Writers: Josh Reed and Nigel Christensen.
Waterborne illnesses around the world kill millions. If you are unlucky enough to drink contaminated water, then your chances of catching a disease like cholera, dysentery, and typhoid fever are pretty good. In Josh Reed's first feature, the water turns people into blood-thirsty killers. Primal released in January of 2011 on DVD and this is an independent horror film from Australia. There are no crazed psychopaths in this film - like Wolf Creek, but there is an ancient terror residing in an ancient cave. That terror creates the tension and the moral dilemmas that hinders six friends like a bad case of stomach cramps.
This is a backwoods thriller, where Mel (Krew Boylan), Chad (Lyndsay Farris), Kris (Rebekah Foord), Warren (Damien Freeleagus), Dace (Wil Traval), and Anja (Zoe Tuckwell-Smith) set out on a trek to research some pictographs. These ancient drawings foretell doom and disease.
Writers: Josh Reed and Nigel Christensen.
Waterborne illnesses around the world kill millions. If you are unlucky enough to drink contaminated water, then your chances of catching a disease like cholera, dysentery, and typhoid fever are pretty good. In Josh Reed's first feature, the water turns people into blood-thirsty killers. Primal released in January of 2011 on DVD and this is an independent horror film from Australia. There are no crazed psychopaths in this film - like Wolf Creek, but there is an ancient terror residing in an ancient cave. That terror creates the tension and the moral dilemmas that hinders six friends like a bad case of stomach cramps.
This is a backwoods thriller, where Mel (Krew Boylan), Chad (Lyndsay Farris), Kris (Rebekah Foord), Warren (Damien Freeleagus), Dace (Wil Traval), and Anja (Zoe Tuckwell-Smith) set out on a trek to research some pictographs. These ancient drawings foretell doom and disease.
- 7/29/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Primal
Stars: Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Krew Boylan, Lindsay Farris, Rebekah Foord, Damien Freeleagus, Wil Traval | Written by Josh Reed & Nigel Christensen | Directed by Josh Reed
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the outback, along comes Primal, another bloody slice of modern Ozploitation hat begins 12,000 years ago when a caveman tried to communicate via cave-painting with the presence of an unknown entity only to be devoured by the primordial evil.
Cut to today, as six friends on a field trip to find the paintings, set up camp in the same remote outback location, a decision they come to regret when sexy, slutty Mel takes a dip in a nearby waterhole,and becomes infected, with something evil, something feral, something primal. Regressing to a predatory state, it soon becomes friend against friend as the campers are picked off one by one – if not dying, becoming the same feral beast as Mel…...
Stars: Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Krew Boylan, Lindsay Farris, Rebekah Foord, Damien Freeleagus, Wil Traval | Written by Josh Reed & Nigel Christensen | Directed by Josh Reed
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the outback, along comes Primal, another bloody slice of modern Ozploitation hat begins 12,000 years ago when a caveman tried to communicate via cave-painting with the presence of an unknown entity only to be devoured by the primordial evil.
Cut to today, as six friends on a field trip to find the paintings, set up camp in the same remote outback location, a decision they come to regret when sexy, slutty Mel takes a dip in a nearby waterhole,and becomes infected, with something evil, something feral, something primal. Regressing to a predatory state, it soon becomes friend against friend as the campers are picked off one by one – if not dying, becoming the same feral beast as Mel…...
- 2/28/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
So the day has come for you folks to take home Costas Mandylor in the final chapter of the phenomenon that is Saw! Well, at least until the inevitable reboot. Even cooler...if the jolly red-suited fatman brought you a 3D television last month, you can watch this puppy in its gory 3D glory, too.
Another franchise that is buzzing this week is the video game sequel, Dead Space 2. In addition to the game itself, you can also bring home the collector's edition, the album soundtrack, a hardcover game guide, and an animated DVD movie. That should keep you busy for a while.
Oh yeah, there are a couple of other interesting titles with some familiar faces from "True Blood", "Angel", "Buffy", and even "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman".
Saw: The Final Chapter (Blu-ray Review)
Directed by Kevin Greutert
Starring Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell, Sean Patrick Flanery, Cary Elwes,...
Another franchise that is buzzing this week is the video game sequel, Dead Space 2. In addition to the game itself, you can also bring home the collector's edition, the album soundtrack, a hardcover game guide, and an animated DVD movie. That should keep you busy for a while.
Oh yeah, there are a couple of other interesting titles with some familiar faces from "True Blood", "Angel", "Buffy", and even "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman".
Saw: The Final Chapter (Blu-ray Review)
Directed by Kevin Greutert
Starring Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell, Sean Patrick Flanery, Cary Elwes,...
- 1/25/2011
- by kwlow
- DreadCentral.com
Director: Josh Reed Writer: Nigel Christensen, Josh Reed Starring: Krew Boylan, Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Wil Traval, Lindsay Farriss, Rebekah Ford, Damien Freeleagus Primal begins as we travel back 12000 years to witness an Aboriginal man who is painting a warning next to the mouth of a cave, just as he is slaughtered by the very subject of his work. Fast-forward to present day as we follow six friends, Dace (Wil Traval) the anthropology student, Kris (Rebekah Ford) the assistant, Mel (Krew Boylan) the blonde party girl, Chad (Lindsay Ferris) Mel's introverted jealous boyfriend, Warren (Damien Freeleagus) the "funny guy", and Anya (Zoe Tuckwell-Smith) the claustrophobic chick with man issues, who have set out into the remote reaches of the wild Australian outback on a journey to study an ancient aboriginal rock painting thousands of year old. The camp out excitement switches gears when Mel becomes ill after skinny dipping in a stagnant pond filled with leaches.
- 10/11/2010
- by Dave Campbell
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Razor-toothed rabbit? Check. Skinny dipping with leeches at night after seeing razor-toothed rabbit attack your friends? Check. Slowly realizing you might not survive the night because your friends are turning into monsters? Check.
It's no insult to call writer/director Josh Reed's Primal a straightforward exploitation horror thriller. Set in the woods somewhere in Australia, the film doesn't spend much time soaking in the beauties of the rural landscape.
Neither do the characters; it's not that important to them, because they're heading off in support of their friend Dace (Wil Traval), who's seeking a doctorate in primal art (or something). He's intent on studying primal paintings; the prologue has already shown us that the paintings (on the outside of a cave) are linked with bloodshed and death, so we have a pretty good idea that something bad is going to happen.
The six friends are paired off neatly: the...
It's no insult to call writer/director Josh Reed's Primal a straightforward exploitation horror thriller. Set in the woods somewhere in Australia, the film doesn't spend much time soaking in the beauties of the rural landscape.
Neither do the characters; it's not that important to them, because they're heading off in support of their friend Dace (Wil Traval), who's seeking a doctorate in primal art (or something). He's intent on studying primal paintings; the prologue has already shown us that the paintings (on the outside of a cave) are linked with bloodshed and death, so we have a pretty good idea that something bad is going to happen.
The six friends are paired off neatly: the...
- 9/26/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Primal
Stars: Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Krew Boylan, Lindsay Farris, Rebekah Foord, Damien Freeleagus, Wil Traval | Written by Josh Reed & Nigel Christensen | Directed by Josh Reed
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the outback, along comes Primal, another bloody slice of modern Ozploitation hat begins 12,000 years ago when a caveman tried to communicate via cave-painting with the presence of an unknown entity only to be devoured by the primordial evil.
Cut to today, as six friends on a field trip to find the paintings, set up camp in the same remote outback location, a decision they come to regret when sexy, slutty Mel takes a dip in a nearby waterhole,and becomes infected, with something evil, something feral, something primal. Regressing to a predatory state, it soon becomes friend against friend as the campers are picked off one by one – if not dying, becoming the same feral beast as Mel…...
Stars: Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Krew Boylan, Lindsay Farris, Rebekah Foord, Damien Freeleagus, Wil Traval | Written by Josh Reed & Nigel Christensen | Directed by Josh Reed
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the outback, along comes Primal, another bloody slice of modern Ozploitation hat begins 12,000 years ago when a caveman tried to communicate via cave-painting with the presence of an unknown entity only to be devoured by the primordial evil.
Cut to today, as six friends on a field trip to find the paintings, set up camp in the same remote outback location, a decision they come to regret when sexy, slutty Mel takes a dip in a nearby waterhole,and becomes infected, with something evil, something feral, something primal. Regressing to a predatory state, it soon becomes friend against friend as the campers are picked off one by one – if not dying, becoming the same feral beast as Mel…...
- 8/27/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Here's a movie I've been hearing about for ages now, and looks like it's finally gearing up for release -- after getting selected for a whole bunch of genre film festivals around the globe, including the first wave of films in Stiges 2010.
Australian poster designer legend Jeremy Saunders has been busy on the poster for the supernatural zombie movie Primal, and here's the first look at what is very close to the final draft.
Starring Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Krew Boylan, Wil Traval, Lindsay Farris, Rebekah Foord and Damien Freeleagus, Primal is the feature debut of director Josh Reed. Here's the synopsis:
A camping trip descends into nightmare for six young people when one of them falls ill, degenerates into a primal state and hunts her friends, in service of a mysterious, ancient entity within a nearby mountain.
Plot sounds a lot like another recent Ozloitation film Prey -- released as The Outback in the U.
Australian poster designer legend Jeremy Saunders has been busy on the poster for the supernatural zombie movie Primal, and here's the first look at what is very close to the final draft.
Starring Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Krew Boylan, Wil Traval, Lindsay Farris, Rebekah Foord and Damien Freeleagus, Primal is the feature debut of director Josh Reed. Here's the synopsis:
A camping trip descends into nightmare for six young people when one of them falls ill, degenerates into a primal state and hunts her friends, in service of a mysterious, ancient entity within a nearby mountain.
Plot sounds a lot like another recent Ozloitation film Prey -- released as The Outback in the U.
- 7/30/2010
- Screen Anarchy
The UK's most amazing horror film festival Film4 FrightFest has released what could very well be another one of the best horror line-ups we've seen ever for its latest show taking place from Thursday the 26th of August to Monday the 30th of August, brimming with films we've been salivating over Stateside!
From the Press Release
This year there are eight British films in the main programme (another record) including Monsters, Gareth Edwards’ sensational post-Apocalyptic debut, The Ford Brothers’ Cannes-hyped African Zombie flick The Dead and Johannes Roberts F – in which a school gets a lesson in horror! Other home-grown titles are Dead Cert (East-End gangsters meet Eastern European vampires), Isle Of Dogs (nasty gangland horror), Paul Andrew Williams’ harrowing Cherry Tree Lane and werewolf thriller 13Hrs. Plus, Jake West will be presenting his in-depth documentary Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship And Videotape, which will be followed by a Q & A panel discussion.
From the Press Release
This year there are eight British films in the main programme (another record) including Monsters, Gareth Edwards’ sensational post-Apocalyptic debut, The Ford Brothers’ Cannes-hyped African Zombie flick The Dead and Johannes Roberts F – in which a school gets a lesson in horror! Other home-grown titles are Dead Cert (East-End gangsters meet Eastern European vampires), Isle Of Dogs (nasty gangland horror), Paul Andrew Williams’ harrowing Cherry Tree Lane and werewolf thriller 13Hrs. Plus, Jake West will be presenting his in-depth documentary Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship And Videotape, which will be followed by a Q & A panel discussion.
- 7/2/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
The complete lineup for the 2010 edition of the Film4 Frightfest has just been announced and, as usual, it is a quality selection of the best in horror film from the UK and around the world. The program splits into two programs - the main lineup and sidebar Discovery program - and you'll find both below!
Programme = Screen 1
Thursday Aug 26
6.30pm Hatchet II (World Premiere)
FrightFest continues its strong relationship with Adam Green by hosting the world premiere of the sequel to his 2006 slasher sensation. Picking up right where the splatter-tastic original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling iconic killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family's connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher. Delivering unapologetically unrestrained gushers of gore,...
Programme = Screen 1
Thursday Aug 26
6.30pm Hatchet II (World Premiere)
FrightFest continues its strong relationship with Adam Green by hosting the world premiere of the sequel to his 2006 slasher sensation. Picking up right where the splatter-tastic original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling iconic killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family's connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher. Delivering unapologetically unrestrained gushers of gore,...
- 7/2/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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