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I Was Comin' Down The Mountain, Met A Child She Had Pin Eyes

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (19)



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I have to admit, I was surprised by how solid this trailer looks. It’s a mostly no-name cast, and a mostly unheard-of director, and initially it seemed like it had direct-to-DVD or TNT movie written all over it. But it may well be a little more than that.

Synopsis:

A group of five mountaineers are hiking and climbing in the Scottish Highlands when they discover a young Serbian girl buried in a small chamber in the wilderness. They become caught up in a terrifying game of cat and mouse with the kidnappers as they try to get the girl to safety

The cinematography’s pretty sweet, and the story looks fairly gripping. It stars Melissa George, Ed Speleers, Sean Harris, and Karel Roden. Of that group, George is the only one I’ve heard of. I know a lot of people have a sort of inexplicable hatred for her — personally, I’ll always like her for her small role in Dark City. I liked her in the almost very good 30 Days of Night, and after seeing her in the surprisingly effective Triangle, I’m wiling to buy into her in this.

Here’s the trailer. Whaddaya think?

Here’s the kind of crappy poster:

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All of that said, A Lonely Place To Die is a lousy title. It sounds like a shitty book you’d pick up at an airport kiosk and leave on the plane with no regrets.









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Comments

Melissa George has become something of a B-movie horror queen in recent years. I'll definitely give this a try. What's with the hate against her?

Posted by: csb at December 20, 2010 9:40 AM

"almost very good 30 Days of Night"??

How dare you. That movie was the balls.

Posted by: boscobarbell at December 20, 2010 9:47 AM

ok... this actually looks extremely good.
i agree, the weakest part is the title.

Posted by: skeletor at December 20, 2010 9:52 AM

Looks like a nice small film.
I'll check it out.

Posted by: Magiel at December 20, 2010 9:55 AM

Great scenery, palpable feeling of fear and authentic folk music. Count me in.

Posted by: PaddyDog at December 20, 2010 10:00 AM

Melissa George is strange-looking. Her head and body don't seem to match.

Posted by: Todd at December 20, 2010 10:43 AM

Sean Harris is known from Ashes to Ashes, where he plays Arthur Layton.

And I'm sure I saw Speleers somewhere.

Posted by: FabMax at December 20, 2010 10:44 AM

Sean Harris: heart-breaking as Ian Curtis in 24 Hour Party People; nut-tuck scary as cop Craven in the Red Riding trilogy (set around the Yorkshire Ripper case).

Posted by: Falstaff at December 20, 2010 11:02 AM

smokin was full of MG hate, but only because she was such a convincing skank in alias.

it took 30DoN and triangle to finally pull him out of it.

as far as this movie goes: WANT.

Posted by: gp at December 20, 2010 11:35 AM

ooo also, eamonn walker! (kareem said from oz)

Posted by: gp at December 20, 2010 11:37 AM

Yes please.

Posted by: Nicolae at December 20, 2010 11:49 AM

I bet everyone knows the face of Karel Roden.
If not the name.

He's one of the top 5 generic Euro-villains.

Posted by: Simon at December 20, 2010 11:52 AM

A scary movie with some actual depth--I'm there. Shit, you could take out the kidnapping part, make it solely about rock climbing, and I'd have sweaty palms within minutes. I wonder what part of their brain rock-climbers are missing? The part that feels fear? Understands gravity, mass and acceleration? Or the part that senses boredom, because in addition to being terrifying, rock climbing also seems boring as hell. Yeah, the vistas look great--except that's not what the climbers are looking at, they're inches from a bland, rocky surface that they'll be pulling themselves over for hours.

I wonder what makes the kidnapped girl so special?

Posted by: DeadBessie at December 20, 2010 12:57 PM

I'm in.

Posted by: Cindy at December 20, 2010 1:05 PM

Eragooooooooooooooon! Kill that guy first please.

Posted by: Irina at December 20, 2010 1:58 PM

Wasn't the villain in Harry Brown? He looks familiar...

Posted by: feebthefurbieassasin at December 20, 2010 2:22 PM

I could have sworn the white guy talking to the black guy in the car was from A Serbian Film.

Posted by: bignick at December 20, 2010 3:43 PM

I'm in the camp of "used to kinda hate Melissa George, but now kinda like her."

I watched Triangle on ze recommendation of ze Pajiba, and I really liked it. It definitely pushed her into the "OK by me" category.

This movie looks interesting, at the very least. And yeah - mountain climbing = inherently scary.

Posted by: MM at December 20, 2010 4:09 PM

Triangle was good.

Posted by: John W at December 20, 2010 8:57 PM