Alone

This is a pretty good film if you just sit back and watch; suspend your disbelief. Don't think too much about it and you'll have a good time. It's entertaining, tense, and will keep you at the edge of your seat. The acting is good and the escape scenes are genuinely unsettling and thrilling. Jules Willcox is really good here as Jessica, and without her this film wouldn't work. Marc Menchaca is pretty scary and menacing as the bad guy inexplicably stalking Jessica throughout the film. The final standoff scene between Jessica and Sam is simultaneously really cool, cathartic, and rewarding.

Many reviewers state how the main character, Jessica, makes multiple dumb decisions. What these reviewers fail to realize is that when very scared, anxious, and alone, people tend to have decision-making that's not very good. And that's what the film is trying to get at here.

Highly recommend, especially if you enjoy cat-and-mouse thrillers.

I didn't have any expectations coming to this. So, despite the somewhat formulaic plot the great direction, the top notch performances, ( particularly from Jules Wilcox), amazing soundtrack, all contribute to make this better than the sum of it's parts. It's incredibly taut at times and it never lets up. Definitely worth a watch. I'll be interested to see where John Hyams goes from here. a solid film and , owing to my nerves being shredded at times it's a 7/10 for me.

Everything in this movie has been done umpteenth no of times but the fact that inspite of this the movie managed to create ample amount of suspense n tension throughout.

The guy who played the stalker indeed looked n behaved very creepy.

The lead actress gave a decent performance.

This movie reminded me of Hush (2016) n other low budget 90s thrillers.

Good to see Anthony Heald aft a long time.

Smart, suspenseful & straightforward, Alone is a lean-n-mean survival horror that employs the genre elements in effective doses to deliver a tense, thrilling & terrifying ride. Packing a simple premise and implementing a minimal approach to bring it to life, this sturdily crafted chiller also benefits from believable performances from its cast and is gripping from the get-go.

Directed by John Hyams, the film doesn't wait too long to introduce the villain, and is up-n-running with the main plot almost right after acquainting us with our protagonist. While the story doesn't break any new grounds, Hyams is still able to get plenty of mileage out of the basic setting & structure by keeping things grounded at all times and allowing the situation & surroundings to heighten the suspense.

The tension-building is carried out with precision by letting our anticipation come into play and the cat-n-mouse scenario that ensues once the scene moves into the wilderness only makes the ride all the more arresting. Jules Willcox aptly articulates her character's fear & predicament while Marc Menchaca plays the antagonist with stone-cold demeanour. Each scene between the two is nail-biting and both actors play their part responsibly.

Overall, Alone is an intelligently directed & brilliantly acted example of its genre that's more than aware of its strengths & limitations and is executed with such flair & simplicity that our investment in the story is almost instantaneous. It is efficient in its storytelling, calculated in its handling of elements and unrelenting in ratcheting up the nerves. Add to that, it is briskly paced, tightly edited and doesn't overstay its welcome. In short, a solid entry in survival horror subgenre.

This movie is just really hard to watch. A girl that just had a scary encounter and stops alone, far away from her car at a shady trucker pitstop. And this is not even one of the things that annoyed me during the movie. None of the characters make any sense at all how they behave. Besides how can you keep meeting the guy all over the woods? Just nonsense!