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Abandon Your Friends

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (11)



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Last month, we featured the teaser for the Australian horror flick Primal, about a group of anthropology students in the Australian wilderness who encounter strangeness and savageness. We now have a bit more on the story, as well as a somewhat more revealing, full-length trailer. The story follows six students studying Aboriginal cave art. One of them goes for a late-night swim in some funky water, and comes out… wrong. As in loses her teeth and gains a taste for blood wrong.

Really wrong. What follows is their struggle to decide what to do about her (and their other compatriot who is similarly infected), as they’re trapped in the middle of nowhere, cut off from help. Also, there appears to be some sort of tentacled beastie, and I always love a good tentacled beastie.

Anyway, here’s the new trailer:

So, the music in the trailer is a bit over the top, but it still looks pretty interesting. It gives off a The Descent-like vibe, although the storylines are quite different. It’s described as “in the vein of Cabin Fever, but it looks smarter and more serious than that (I’m not a big Cabin Fever fan. By which I mean — I think it sucked).

I said it then and I’ll say it now — if I go camping with my pals and one of them ends up like that? Head, meet shovel. Primal doesn’t have a U.S. release date yet, but we’ll certainly keep you posted.

(Source: Bloody Disgusting)









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Comments

Did she say "we don't need no bathings" for bathing suit?

Oh...you Australian people with your cute little accents. I could just wrap you up and squeeze you until your wittle heads pop off...ummmmmm...wait...

I gotta agree with you TK, one of my friends end up like that they're dead. Then again I'm also one of those people who throw my hands up in anger when I see a zombie film and someone refuses to kill that person who has been bitten. Dude, they're going to come back to life...and feast on your tasty brains.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at March 24, 2010 10:08 AM

I love the word beastie. It's so cuddly in such a wrong way.

Posted by: Julie at March 24, 2010 10:16 AM

My optimism has not diminished. Also, I've always been a fan of the "large chunk of firewood" method of disposing with ones infected friends. There's something so satisfying about that heavy, meaty "thunk!"

Posted by: admin at March 24, 2010 10:17 AM

I bet that tentacled beastie wants to love you right back, TK. In the butt.

Posted by: Snath at March 24, 2010 10:18 AM

I’m not a big Cabin Fever fan. By which I mean — I think it sucked/

I totally agree. I saw it on a free cable about a year ago and found it to be terrible.

This looks somewhat promising.

Posted by: Forbiddendonut at March 24, 2010 10:20 AM

DeistBrawler, she said "bathers" instead of "bathing suit" because that is what they are called here (some might say "swimmers" instead but "bathers" is by far the more commonly used term).

Posted by: Brittany at March 24, 2010 11:11 AM

Creepytensioncreepytensioncreepytension...

LOUD LOUD LOUD-LOUD-LOUD LOUD LOUD!!!

Posted by: superasente at March 24, 2010 12:31 PM

I want to hold out faith for this one, but I'm convinced that I will be horribly disappointed. The concept is strong. The score is awful in the trailer. The gore is well done. The acting is awful in the trailer. That's a coint toss situation if I've ever seen one. I demand acting and writing from horror films and this seems like another either/or situation that turns me off.

Posted by: Robert at March 24, 2010 12:51 PM

So I'm pretty sure I saw one of the chicks cutting open her big preggers belly? And then it showed her, sans belly, tied down with the tentacled beastie approaching? And by putting two and two together, I'm guessing the trailer just gave away the big finale...Hmmm...

Posted by: gee. ay. at March 24, 2010 1:05 PM

Is Cabin Fever the one where they all get sick and start decomposing while still alive? 'Cause if so, I heartily agree with the Suck rating.

Also agree that I'd have no problem killing an infected friend since that person has essentially died already. I'm not dying myself because of some misplaced sentimentality. You sprout fangs and start eating people, you are going down.

Reminds me of a scene in Angel when Wolfram and Hart employees go all zombie, and Charles stops in the middle of the action to kill one zombie in particular because he can't stand the thought of leaving him in that state, even though he hated the guy when he was alive.

Posted by: DeadBessie at March 24, 2010 4:11 PM

So I'm pretty sure I saw one of the chicks cutting open her big preggers belly? And then it showed her, sans belly, tied down with the tentacled beastie approaching?

Looking over the trailer again I think it's two different women. The girl cutting her belly open can be seen at 1:28 drawing straws with the women in the tank top.

Posted by: csb at March 24, 2010 6:42 PM