Crowsnest Movie Review

Crowsnest
                                            

Crowsnest is a found-footage or caught-on-camera style horror thriller movie released in 2012. This film is written by John Sheppard and directed by Brenton Spencer. The leading characters of the movie Crowsnest are played by Mittita Barber, Aslam Husain, Victor Zinck Jr., Chelsey Reist and Christie Burke.

The movie Crowsnest tells the story of a group of teenagers who are heading to a cabin in the jungle to spend their holidays. But on the way, they start experiencing paranormal events and then fall victim to some psychopaths.

A scene from the movie Crowsnest

Plot: 
Crowsnest starts with a boy named Justin recording the neighborhood from his window with a camera, which he has just got as a gift on his birthday from his girlfriend Brooke. Then his girlfriend’s friend Amanda and Amanda’s boyfriend Kirk come to his apartment to wish him. Justin keeps recording his everyday life with the camera, which irritates Brooke.

On the next day, these two couples and Amanda’s sister together start for a trip to a cabin in the jungle which is owned by Kirk’s parents. All of them are having fun just like normal young people except Amanda’s sister, who is a serious person and doesn’t take part in their jokes. After leaving the town, at one point, Kirk (who is driving the car) gets confused about the direction and finally they lose their way in the hills.

They stop at a nearby place to buy cheap beers. There Brooke sees a strange girl, who disappears in a few seconds. The boys also meet a horrifying old man who warns them to go back, otherwise all of them will die. They ignore the warning and heads further. At one place, they find the skinned dead body of a wild animal (maybe a deer). This scene makes Amanda's sister sick and she wants to throw up. So they stop by the road. Then a RV rushes by them nearly killing Amanda. 

The boys get furious and rush after the RV,. But at one point, the RV manages to chase them and keeps hitting their car from behind. After some time, they outrun the RV and again stop to check the condition of their car. The RV comes there again and this time, hits Amanda's sister. Then the RV runs away and the terrified group starts to look for help. None of them finds any signal in their phone so they go uphill to get network coverage. Their car stops suddenly on the way and they find something is broken. In the meantime, they find that Amanda's sister has died. When they can't move their car, the boys and Brook start to go uphill though the jungle by foot, leaving Amanda in the car with her sister. Soon after they leave, they hear Amanda's scream and rush back to the car, but find that neither the car nor anyone is there.

Justin blames all of these to Kirk and over this issue they start to fight. Finally Justin runs away from Brook and Krik and goes with the camera. After some time he finds the RV. Two people from the RV come out and then Justin enters there, finding Amanda injured and chained. He also finds a strange girl who is trying to eat a part of Amanda's sister. He kills the girl and then runs away from the RV, unable to take Amanda with him. But the two men from the RV comes back, find him and then kill him.

Brook and Kirk find the camera. They are then chased by the two men from the RV. Brook and Kirk try to hide from them, find their car and get away from the place to safety.

My review about Crowsnest:
I didn't expect much from the movie Crowsnest , but I was amazed to find it pretty good.

Now a days, a lot of horror movies are made in this accidentally-caught-on-camera style and most of them are not impressive at all. This style is getting overused and boring, but Crowsnest is a rare impressive one of them. Here, the director has shown how to successfully take the advantages of making a movie in this style.

The plot of Crowsnest  is very thin and straightforward. The ending is predictable. If you have watched a few horror movies of this style, you will be able to predict its ending successfully. There is almost no twist.

But other than the plot, everything else about Crowsnest is pretty good. The director has succeed to keep the tension high in this one. Once the thrill starts, it will be good enough to keep you at the tip of your chair till the end of the movie. We must give him credit for this movie, which seems so interesting with such a weak plot. Crownest gives you enough time to get to know the characters before jumping in to the fun parts.

The acting of all the characters in Crowsnest are good. The dialogue are not that high class, but still good. The screenplay is also not weak. The artists are good looking and fit to their characters.

The makeups are also good to but Crowsnest is a little weak on special effects. Some effects with blood didn't look natural. Another thing is, after Amanda's sister got hit by the RV, we did not see much of injury signs on her.

Here in Crowsnest, the director has successfully taken all the advantages of the style of this film. Not every details is shown here but it does not harm the viewing experience. I could not find any overuse of special effects.

For some nudity at the beginning of the film, some graphic scenes and for the language, Crowsnest is not suitable for kids.

So, finally, as I've said, I liked Crowsnest very much. Don't let a poor IMDB rating (3.4, while I am writing this review) stop you from watching Crowsnest. This movie is not popular or not much talked about, but it surely is worth a shot. I'd definitely recommend watching this good horror thriller to all movie lovers.

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