Getaway

Jesus...where do I even start. First of all, everything looks like The Lumineers fan club reunion. The plot is ridiculous, acting is horrible, and everything is so bad that I honestly thought that genre is horror comedy

"Getaway" blends traditional survival, backwoods horror and occult themes. The story starts innocent enough with almost clinched breadth. A lot of the premise hangs on pulling out those expected tropes and lulling you into believing you have seen this film before, sure with other characters and a different title. However "Getaway" offers a twist within a twist that really works well, and is wickedly delicious.

The characters are strong, female driven leads that look comfortable and entertaining on screen. The cast give up their craft to these women easily, which makes "Getaway" captivating. The pace of the film is a little too slow burn but so much of the story's suspense rests on a even, tense pace to let dark nature of the situation unfold. For the most part it works, I would have liked a bit more amplitude after the twist begins but the film doesn't really suffer.

The horror elements are mostly atmospheric and sound driven moments of chilling interaction between "predator and prey". There is some kill sequences but mostly the nightmare is a series of subjective situations where protagonists face off with the antagonists. Still the twist reveals all, I don't want to spoil the ending. It is a clever one. Indie horror fans will definitely enjoy this one.

This film had the potential to be good. Yes it has been done before, but they could still have done something with it.

Clearly there is a budget issue. At least twice in the film, they forgot to add in the sound effects. The last one I noticed was when he gets shot, they forgot to put in the gunfire sound, also one scene earlier where they forgot to put in the sound of the slap that would have provoked that kind of reaction, instead there is just silence. Then the sound quality dies at the end of the film, not to mention the fact that she is clearly talking on the phone that is not connected to a phone call. I could go on but I won't.

The acting is for the most part awful. Some scenes are bearable, most are awful, some are just down right cringey.

The story has many holes in it and an irrelevant character that is not necessary for the story and in fact is very cringe-worthy and takes away from the film rather than adding to it. With a slightly better script it could have been good. The first half though is not as bad as the second half. It seems every one got tired of doing the film and/or they run out of money.

I can tolerate a lot and forgive some mistakes, but this really takes the biscuit, so much so, I had to join up here to write this, which I don't usually bother with.

A cult classic - NOT EVER. If you were aiming for a B movie, you failed, Z is too high for this film.

They did not even bother to finish editing in the sound effects for the guns. It was bad on a story level, (no plot), poorly edited, horrible acting.. If it were a student film they should get expelled.

I watched this last night and I must say that I did not expect the story to be this interesting when it reached near the end. without giving anything away I can say that those who are fans of gore and blood you will be disappointed as there is little to none, I was expecting it to be this....also, the 3 ladies are real lookers and played their part well.. good ending as well..

overall, if you cannot find a good movie., you may want to check it out...story is really easy to understand as well..