Turbines

Having watched this movie with a group of 5 friends after finding it through a random selection of movies online, our consensus on this film is that we thought it was stupid, but it was at least entertaining in a group.

By no means does low budget inherently mean something is BAD, I have seen plenty of low budget films that've been great! But the quality of this film was... generally pretty bad. Acting wasn't great, microphone quality was total trash, makeup and effects were bare minimum effort, and the plot itself wasn't really worth the amount of time we spent watching.

None of the characters were particularly distinguishable from each other other than The Wife and The Kid. We collectively struggled to recognize a person involved in The Twist™ of the film. There were multiple time-skips in the film, one of which that explicitly mentioned 5 years passed. All of the other time-skips were easy to miss and hard to follow.

My personal favourite part of the film was every single time the scene changed to Atilla's work, and he was just hammering the same fence pole. It didn't matter how much time had passed, it looked like absolutely no work had been done.

This is yet another low budget horror film from the nether regions of Australia. Low budget and low everything else. A film needs to have if not a plot then some sort of excuse for a plot. A documentary about a spree killer shooting people at random has a plot by default, namely following the people hunting him. But a film in which a bloke goes around pummelling people to death with a hammer, and next to nothing else doesn't really cut the mustard.

True, there is the inference that somehow turbines are responsible, or maybe the guy has a brain tumour like real life spree killer Charles Whitman. There is a punchline at the very end which is perhaps not what the viewer would expect, but really, this one has nothing to offer.

The main actor is a stuntman and cant act and presumably thats his real life girlfriend in the movie they cannot keep their hands off each other its rather embarrassingly amateur.

Then we have the overexposed bright almost white camerawork.

Then the dialogue = I am at the bit where they are talking at the table its like amateur hour at the local primary school am-dram.

I am only 19 mins in and I have to switch off!

It's a shame this wasn't far more subtle, since problems with industrial wind power have long been excused by the media and profiteers who fancy themselves environmentalists.

I was hoping for something that didn't smack of Trump claiming these space-hogs (directly) cause cancer, giving their supporters an excuse to ignore other health risks. Conflating speculation with legitimate complaints allows defenders to skip context. Infrasound and other noise has been well documented as a problem but this film barely goes into detail.

I suppose the makers assume enough people know of the issues, so they needn't elaborate. But the plot was still excessive. Overall I can't recommend it because it goes too far and explains too little. I gave it a 5 for daring to take on the topic in some way.

High point: It's a shame that the shapely field-lead didn't get luckier.

Related trivia: The 2012 movie, "Promised Land" was originally going to be about wind power, not fracking.

You don't go into a low-budget horror film expecting a 10. And I didn't know what to expect going into this film; it was quite a suprise! The acting was surprisingly good, both leads playing immigrants to Australia, the atmosphere was creepy and effective, and you have no idea where it's going. It's a bold attempt at hitchcock, give it a go!