The Cottage (2008)
Genre: Comedy / Horror
Duration: 92 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom
Directed by: Paul Andrew Williams
Stars: Andy Serkis and Jennifer Ellison
IMDb score:
6,1 (13.743)
Releasedate: 7 February 2008
The Cottage plot
"Sleeps Six Bloody Comfortably"
One night a car arrives at a remote cottage. Brothers David and Peter crawl out of the car and inspect the house. It's perfect for their plan to kidnap Tracey, the daughter of mob boss Arnie. Andrew, Tracey's stepbrother helps the brothers. But two of Arnie's henchmen have followed Andrew and are now waiting outside for their boss. While waiting, Tracey escapes and flees through the woods in search of a house with a telephone to call her father. But she shouldn't have done that...
Actors and actresses
David
Peter
Tracey
Andrew
Club Receptionist
Man in Suit
Muk Li San
Chun Yo Fu
Steven
Villager with Dog
Reviews & comments
Leno
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- 5921 messages
- 4415 votes
The idea of this film is nice, where the roles all seem reversed. The twist then comes as a surprise and works very nicely. Too bad about the mediocre roles and the annoying character of Peter.
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FillumGek
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- 8987 messages
- 3401 votes
The trouble with comedies is that sometimes you're in the right mood and sometimes you're not at all. The characters and the humor just didn't work, although I do understand the hilarity of some scenes. But I especially had the idea that people had to laugh at the exaggerated swearing in flat accents.
Andy Serkis is a good bad guy of course. His grimaces alone are immediately reminiscent of Gollum and King Kong. Shearsmith complements him well as the lash of the bunch. Ellison has a nice body, but her attitude got on my nerves more than it was funny. Nice cameo from Doug Bradley.
A little over halfway through the film, things get a little more interesting with a killer that may look uninspired, but is pretty clunky. The special effects are actually quite good. Still, I was never quite in the movie. Atmosphere is just not good and the comedy passed me by. This time, because next time it may turn out differently, as long as the mood is right.
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Shadowed
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- 11421 messages
- 6719 votes
Pretty awful.
The Cottage has become a special film, and therefore completely different from what I expected. I only looked at the poster and some cast members, and based on that I expected a brutal genre film. Something completely different from this in any case, but that doesn't work out exactly positively.
For starters, this is actually more of a comedy movie than a horror movie. That doesn't have to be a problem, and with names like Serkis you have to come to an end. At least, that's what you'd think, but the film doesn't succeed at all. It is a very hyperactive form of humor, which is almost always annoying and gets in the way of the story itself. Nothing is taken seriously in this film, which, combined with steel-hard horror, should and can work.
However, there is no such thing as steel-hard horror within this film, but perhaps some unpredictability, and that keeps the film going. Other than that, there is little to enjoy. The deformed threat is very boring, any form of tension is nowhere to be found and the gore is almost completely absent. Even the limited amount of murders are shown off-screen.
Wouldn't have been a problem if the rest of the film could balance itself out a bit, but the busy execution and dull visual interpretation put a stop to this. In this way, The Cottage quickly becomes a film that is boring, but also annoying. That combination is deadly in a negative way, and I found it a tiring whole to get through. I don't have much more to say about it. Not my thing. Bonus points for good acting and some unpredictable twists in the story.
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