The Stranger

That genre being - tiny budget, single location, handful of actors - horror.

Think Hellraiser and A Dark Song and X, on a shoestring.

It's a first time full feature - though Mike and Paul have been around awhile.

And if you take that into account the flaws can be excused.

The acting, it's not quite there, but it's generally prett good. A little more experience, whether from them, or the directors, or the script, and you can see it could have been great.

Effects, not much obvious, the few clear examples are more about turning the concepts into costume/makeup - and that was well done.

Originally titled Karli, the name change was a good idea, until another film came out with the same name last year!

Nicely leaves things open for a prequel and sequel(s).

The Hunters are coming...

Full disclosure, I've known one of the directors for a number of years.

Funny the 4 first reviews was rated this movie with 10 stars, then followed up with some 8 stars reviews, and after that its only 1-4 stars, guess it was the filmcrew in the beginning who manipulate the ratings , and they did because this movie have absolute too many stars right now , its not a 4,0 movie, more like 3,2 and it will drop sooner or later

Low budget garbage, direction is on schooltheatre level, acting aswell, the story is even worse, its only strange, the production is perhaps the worst in this trash, camera is just wrong in so many situations, often too close, and sugar on top the teenage daughter look like 30 , and probably is

Not a good movie, mostly annoying.

The concept could have been a lot more interesting if we got more details about what's going on. Like who are the mysterious things chasing the man? I wish he would have developed theories or learned little details, and ideas about them as he was on the run. We don't learn much about them, just that they develop an interest in people and hunt them down. We have no idea why either.

Like it wasn't a terrible film, but it also didn't leave much of an impression on me either. I'll probably forget I watched it. The acting was very average, nothing special, but the dialogue was really awkward in places.

This seems to be a concept movie from a new studio/director. And so must be taken with a pinch of salt, it's not a 10 by a some way, but not a 1 either.

Story - there isn't one. The opening scene draws you in thinking oh what's happened, seems daft but let's see. But by the end I'm still scratching my head on what the story was. It has the old classic family member dies, let's move to a remote country house with no neighbours.

Acting - on the whole is mediocre, but the script can be blamed for that. Some really awful conversations between mother and daughter including one near the beginning. Mother asks daughter to look out for signs as she is driving. They are on a single track driveway to the property, your not going to be looking out for signs. This is just one example of a number of poorly written exchanges. But there are points where it improves sligtly.

Music - usuall suspense horror music, with the annoying tones when something is about to happen. But acceptable.

Overall - I'm not going to watch this one again, it's longer than it needs to be but there is some good concepts. Probably should be lower in my ratings but suggest giving it a go anyway.

It what is says on the tin, a stranger turns up at an inn - something untoward about him, but is he the real concern.....oooooh no!

I watched this with some friends last night because it was only £1 on Apple TV (complete bargain!) and we sat back thinking - 'ok, this is going to be a laugh; independent unheard of British horror...FOR A £1?! Surely it's going to be Oscar worthy!

All jokes aside, I have seen a lot of budget horror's in my time (for the love of god, 'Zombie Hunter' anyone ....yeah) but with this being classed as a budget horror, we were all presently surprised.

Some nice camera work, very desolate and isolated location, a few decent jump scares and the acting was quite good all round. Not going to be beating Halloween or anything but we enjoyed it!

Worth 80 minutes of your time :)