Downhill

Pésimos actores, hay actores Chilenos mucho mejores...

Ha, let me say this is a nasty one to review. It isn't going to be your downhill ride into a normal horror. The opening scene was already confusing by seeing something in the style of a witch and some creature being put in a girl's throat.

Then you are off for indeed a BMX ride down a hill filmed in GoPro style. All nice but not exactly what I thought would become a weird horror. It takes a while before this flick turns instantly into a strange story. Once the party is over and the BMX ride starts again suddenly a crash is noticed by the bikers and off they go to help the one person sitting wounded in the car.

From then on this flick turns in some kind of science - fiction horror which reminded me of The Thing (1982) in some ways. But it goes one step further which makes this little stinker a love or hate flick. For me what started as a simple flick just on the edge of boredom becomes a flick that keep you watch it until the end. In fact, it's got it all, witchcraft, satanism, creatures, and a bit of found footage. I liked it.

Gore 1/5 Nudity 1/5 Effects 2,5/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

I bought "Downhill" cheap on DVD from a local supermarket, then it sat amongst many other DVDs for 4 or 5 years before finally getting around to watching it. Was it worth the wait? Hell no!! Joe (Bruce Draper) and his girlfriend Stephanie (Natalie Burn) head down to Chile for some high level downhill racing. On their first ride they come across a badly injured man sat in a car, next thing a group of armed thugs turn up (rather bizarrely led by a big Cockney geezer!) Then to cap it off the injured man goes all body horror, sprouting tentacles etc , something to do with a local coven of naked witches. Confusing? Oh yes! The first half was pretty straight forward but the last part of the story is just an incoherent mess. Most of the film takes place in the Great Outdoors, I always like that, the effects are passable but the acting, especially the two leads, is poor. Natalie Burns is great to look at but her acting is as wooden as the trees. Near the end one character says "Such a waste", well I agree, a waste of a few quid and 79 minutes of my life.

Yes pun intended. Although if you're looking for humor, you shouldn't stop and watch this. Unless you like laughing at how bad some things are. Like the dialog, or the "acting". The story in general and some of the special effects too. Is there any saving grace? One of the accidental fun of course - and I guess if you like watching beautiful people, than there is something here for the eye too.

But as far as horror movies are concerned, this is very weak. I reckon if you haven't seen many, you might be mildly entertained. But mostly for the wrong reasons as mentioned above. I did watch it at a festival and it's always hard facing those who made this and put a lot of effort into this. Learning by doing though and maybe someday the result will be better

ENTERTAINING MOVIE, I DON'T THINK THAT VALLADARES PRETENDS TO MAKE OF THIS SCRIPT A BLOCKBUSTER, SO I THINK IT'S AN INTERESTING WORK, HE USES THE ELEMENTS HE HAS IN A GOOD WAY, FULFILLING WHAT HE PROPOSES, IT'S NOT HIS MASTERPIECE BUT I THINK HE'S A DIRECTOR WHO USES THE ELEMENTS AT HIS DISPOSAL IN A GOOD WAY WITHOUT HAVING TO SPEND OR DEPEND ON A BIG BUDGET TO MAKE A MOVIE.