Awaiting Movie Download

6 / 10

Emmerdale meets Psycho…..
Morris is a recluse with psychotic tendencies, whose life changes when his seemingly innocent daughter Lauren rescues one of his victims and befriends him.

Jake, a lawyer from the city waiting to propose to his girlfriend properly, soon realises that he is stranded, and his presence in the house gradually reveals unexpected and dark mysteries from the past…..

It’s a certainly interesting premise, guy gets involved in a ‘road accident’ comes round in a strange place, with a young girl who is infatuated with him, and her psychotic father…..

But in fact, once you’ve seen the film, you’ll have that strange feeling of déjà Vu, because no matter how enjoyable the film can be at times, it’s just too familiar, as it has hints from lots of popular horror movies from the past 50 or so years.

The films that it reminded of the most were The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The People Under The Stairs, Psycho, and a little hunt of Straw Dogs.

All these films featured a person out of their comfort zone in an element of peril, and having an injury of some sort. The thing these four films have in common, are that they are far superior to Awaiting.

But, the three central performances are solid and Curran especially keeps you gripped whenever he almost loses his marbles (a little bit more).

The bloke from coronation street is good, but he’s your stereotypical rich boy in peril who thinks its a good idea to be verbally facetious toward your captor when imminent peril is about to be inflicted upon you, just to let them know that your intellectually superior at that particular time……good choice.

Vickers is also good, in fact very good for an X factor runner up, her innocent, almost childlike performance is pretty disturbing, especially during the Christmas dinner scene, but then one scene makes you think she may have been a bit of a diva on set, because two certain body parts are CG erased, and it’s blooming obvious.

So all in all, it’s a decent movie, with a couple of decent twists, but you’ll think you’ve seen it before.Read More