I'm all for a British low budget horror flick, and was hoping for the same enjoyment I got from films like The Borderlands (2013)
This felt more like a student film.
Initially the music gave it an 80's horror film feel, very John Carpenter and I loved it but anything that wasn't there to supplement the action scenes, didn't seem to fit.
The editing was jumpy, intentionally I'm sure, but scenes cut with a bang, between past and present, and between present and present, and sometimes just when folk were exiting a car.
It could have used a little more set decoration to hide the fact a cheap hotel was used in the early scenes and that the furnishing were obviously there when they arrived to shoot. Using it as is, only perpetuated the student film feel.
The sound needed work as the dialogue sounded like it was in a hotel corridor and it's always good practice to make gunfire sound like gunfire ... to cover the sounds of the triggers clicking for nothing.
The special effects were a bit "doctor who" but the blood work was good.
Whomever found those outside locations did a great job as the scenery was beautiful, but it's a shame that the drone shots caught the local residents in their gardens. Perhaps should have edited those out.
However half an hour in it became much more interesting, and I was ready for the promised horror. It was almost there but it could have been so much more. The idea was sound though.
Amelia Eve did a decent job with the an american accent but I was never sure why her character needed to be American. She was great though, and it was a smart move to use her face and name on the poster as, following her fantastic performance in The Haunting Of Bly Manor, she brings a lot of attention to this movie. Hell, she was the reason I watched it.
You can see that she has the potential to take on a more mainstream action movie already, as she was confident in the role. Gun in one hand, flare in the other, lighting it on her leg, that's an action hero in the making.
Everyone has to start somewhere, and for me, this movie could have been a solid low budget horror flick, if only it had focussed on the horror and left aside the American ambassador subplot that seemed unnecessary.
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