Visitantes

While facing the challenge of sailing alone around the world in one hundred and forty days, the Australian Georgia Perry (Radha Mitchell) fights against the "ghosts" of her life in her loneliness, including an unresolved relationship with her mother and the engagement with her unfaithful fiancé.

"Visitors" was a great deception for me. Since "Pitch Black", I have been a fan of the actress Radha Mitchell and I have watched many of her movies. Therefore, I expected that "Visitors" would be a great film. Unfortunately, the confused screenplay, using flashbacks to explain the innermost contradictions and conflicts of the character Georgia Perry, begins with a great atmosphere and very intriguing, but does not work well and in the end makes the movie sometimes boring and messy. The idea is good, but the screenplay is horrible. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Visitors"

This Australian horror caught me by surprise, what I mean by that is I'd never heard of it so my expectations were low and doubly the type of horror movie it is rarely manages to entertain.

It tells the story of Georgia Perry a 25yr old Australian girl intent on sailing around the world solo. It stars Radha Mitchell and Dominic Purcell and is actually really quite good.

Mitchell carries the movie well considering she makes up the bulk of the film. It is well structured, genuinely tense and though not scary it certainly makes up for it in other areas.

It looks great, the cast do a solid job and despite the ropey ending I walked away suitably impressed.

The Good:

Highly original

Well written

Great setting

The Bad:

Questionable ending

Not for everyone

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

Dominic Purcell looks weird with hair

A proper horror film with the same setting could be terrifying

"Visitors" has got a strong and likable lead. Being a fan of `Pitch Black' I decided to check this one out at the Fantasy Filmfest. The premise is promising and the atmosphere on the isolated sailing boat comes across nicely. At the theatre the surround sound is very effective because mysterious noises come from different directions. The film isn't boring but it isn't new and original either. The ending is disappointing so my rating is a solid 5. I expected a tense psycho thriller, but it isn't very exciting. You've seen everything in other and better films before.

(2003) Visitors PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER/ SUPERNATURAL

Co-produced and directed by Richard Franklin that has Australian, Georgia Perry (Radha Mitchell) along with her cat named Taco, attempting to be the first girl to sail around the world using her 38 yacht Leander. And while sailing she begins to come across unexplainable events which may or may not be real! Nothing wrong with Radha Mitchell's performance except the film has some bad dialogue and directions that does not do anything to keep viewers invested. The portion of this idea for this picture might've came from another boat picture released in 1989 called "Dead Calm".

Georgia Perry (Radha Mitchell) is a determined woman who sets out to sail solo around the world. Along the way she's plagued by what could either be hallucinations or ghostly visitations. Georgia finds herself up against pirates, hordes of enormous spiders, and the specter of her insane mother (Susannah York).

All this, while Georgia carries on a two-way conversation with her cat.

This is one bizarre movie. Ms. Mitchell carries it all herself, and does an admirable job. Her character must face not only various phantoms, but also personal demons and debilitating guilt.

While the ending is rather hokey, it's an exhilarating ride getting there...