Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

loomis78-815-989034 . Intense Mother Mary (Dickie) moves her teenage son Fergal (Bruton) into a depressed apartment complex in Edinburgh. Obviously they seem to be hiding from someone or thing as Mary begins painting strange protection symbols on the apartment walls and has a nude ritual she carries out. Fergal makes friends with a neighbor girl Petronella (Hanna Stanbridge) with romance in mind. Simultaneously we are introduced to Liam (McMenamin) and Cathal (Nesbitt), hunters who believe Fergal is something other than human. With their mission to destroy him the hunt begins. Meanwhile a vicious beast is attacking and slaughtering people in and around the depressed area. Director Colm McCarthy co-wrote with Tom K. McCarthy on this interesting take on the monster on the loose film. McCarthy keeps you guessing to what and who is the beast and even which side you should be rooting for. This mystery helps move the movie along until you get the reveal later of who is the scary looking beast that is ripping people apart. The problem is once we find out who it is the screenwriters never give much of a back story as to why all this is happening. This lessens the overall effect of the movie, but it still has a lot going for it. The monster is a nasty thing that does a gory good number on those it kills, so the gore level is high. There are a number of nice jump scares and McCarthy uses the depressed look of the neighborhood to create and ominous atmosphere. Overall, this movie is scary and entertaining and worth a watch. Its biggest sin is the lack of motivation for everything that is happening.

moriahconqueringwind This is the worst film I've seen in years. Others have covered the "written by a seven year old" plot so I won't waste time. Some points to note - (1) Dreadful camera work. Shaky, out of focus zooming, looks as though every scene was filmed using mobile cameras. It's just dreadful (2) Awful acting. Wooden, unconvincing script. Lines delivered with all the sincerity of a politicians pre-election promises (3) Special effects - make a 50's "B" movie look sophisticated...probably the worst combination of CGI / make up I've seen.(4) Casting - just awful. James Nesbitt as an "evil hunter" using magick to track down his prey? He should stick to playing drunken wife-beaters...he was clearly out of his depth here. Plus the "young man who was the star of the show"? For Christ's sake pick a leading actor who doesn't look like he suffers from terminal acne. Between some of the scenes he looked like he'd been squeezing his spots.AVOID THIS LIKE THE PLAGUE.

elaine-105 What do you get if you cross the plot of Let The Right One In with the special effects of a budget Hulk movie, then set it all in Trainspotting territory, with a bunch of Irish Gypsy mumbo jumbo thrown in for good measure. Well, fairly obviously, you get low budget horror thriller Outcast.Intense, witchy Mary and her teenage son Fergal (Kate Dickie and Niall Bruton) are on the run. But when they set fire to their van and accept a scummy council tenancy in a run-down scheme on the outskirts of Edinburgh, it appears that their days on the road are over. Big mistake, as mysterious, tattooed, radge hit-man Cathal (James Nesbitt) is hot on their heels, tracking them down using bizarre divining rituals involving pigeons' entrails. Well, it's hardly as if the reclusive pair are on Facebook.But while Mary sets about weaving protective spells around their flat, Fergal is off getting to know his new neighbourhood, and in particular feisty 'teenager' Petronella (Hanna Stanbridge), who spends her days caring for her mentally disabled brother while her alcoholic mother lies sprawled on the sofa sleeping off the grog. But as a sudden, awkward and rather unlikely romance starts to blossom, Cal is closing in, having been given the go ahead by the local gypsy king or Laird (played, of course, by James Cosmo, as it is illegal to make a film in Scotland without offering him a part).All sounds a bit strange. Well, it is, but it's also gory, gritty and weirdly compelling – although not always terribly convincing. Perhaps I just have trouble believing there's black magic taking place on my bus route. Or indeed that such cheesy, playground black magic could be so immediately effective – Rosemary's Baby this ain't.But that aside, this is a brave film that's genuinely trying to do something different, and while the result is at times cheap and patchy, it's also like nothing you've seen before, a sort of dysfunctional Mike Leigh film for the Twilight generation.Now where did I put my jar of blood and pile of dead birds? I'm off to cast a spell on a traffic warden… See more of my reviews at www.elainemacintyre.net 8-)

nthrooch Where to begin? Not only is that the question I have as a reviewer, it seems that was the question the director was asking himself for the first 20 minutes of this film. To call this film slow to start is an epic understatement. It uncomfortably squeezes it's way into a story arc, but never really doing so with a pace that keeps the viewers attention. After an extended wait we are introduced to our main characters, unlikeable as they basically all are.The main character, although honestly the film barely commits to it, is Petronella. A girl from some kind of mixed race background, who, for want of a better word, is seemingly "easy". She meets the second character, this time from a gypsy family, Fergal. What follows is an incredulously quick, and exceptionally unbelievably whirlwind romance, wherein Petronella falls madly in love for no real discernible reason, and winds up trying to have sex with him repeatedly. However, Fergal's highly creepy voodoo style mother is obsessed with keeping him from doing the deed, so forces him to stay in his room. He gets out all the time though, but only when she's not around.If this review seems disjointed, please, understand that this is what the film is like. You are introduced to characters whom you almost immediately share no compassion for, and are then forced to watch them form relationships that have no serious grounding. All under the story arc of Fergal being hunted by a random man, for undisclosed reasons. If it wasn't bad enough that the actress playing Petronella (Hanna Stanbridge) is indubitably too old to play a schoolgirl, then it's certainly bad enough that the gypsy magic sequences play out like a scene from Hackers. One party uses some ancient act by no doubt killing some form of animal, the other does the same to "block" this power. Who knew gypsy magic could be hacked? Seriously, I won't even delve any further into this shoddy material. It was a waste of film, and left only one temptation at the end, that of leaving as soon as humanly possible. Grotesquely over done sex scenes, silly cast choices, absolutely diabolical dialogue. Even the chavs in the film are blatantly acting school graduates with Kappa tracksuits on. I wish this was better, as I often enjoy James Nesbitt, but he was wasted with a character barely given room to grow. Simply put, avoid, at all costs.