Post by stefancrosscoe on May 19, 2018 6:32:02 GMT
Försvunnen aka Gone (2011)
Swedish low budget thriller where a woman on the run from her past is looking for a new start by moving to a new and different place.
However, fate seems to want things differently as she is being stalked by a mysterious stranger, who owns a big black car and is seemingly following her during every twist and turn. She is then attacked and kidnapped by brute force by this mysterious maniac and all of a sudden is in the fight of her life when finding out that she is trapped inside the guys desolate cabin or house, in the huge forest and the only way of getting out is to fight back, which is easier said than done.
Not exactly groundbreaking material to be seen here, as the films starts up as so many other roadtrip thrillers, in which a lonely anti-hero is being chased during the night by some lunatic, who seems to show up every now and then, then only to disappear again and then it start all over again.
However, the film do move up one step when it goes from the roads and into the deep and dark woods and turns into a survival of the fittest movie.
Considering the low budget and how fast it was made, I gotta say it was done rather well, as it surely do captures some of the creepy tone of being on the run in not excactly the most friendly of places and the acting by the main leads are also good.
All in all, I was not expecting all too much but it was surely better than the "usual" scandinavian thrillers that I have seen and while not something I will likely bother with again, I end up with a favorable rating of:
6/10
Swedish low budget thriller where a woman on the run from her past is looking for a new start by moving to a new and different place.
However, fate seems to want things differently as she is being stalked by a mysterious stranger, who owns a big black car and is seemingly following her during every twist and turn. She is then attacked and kidnapped by brute force by this mysterious maniac and all of a sudden is in the fight of her life when finding out that she is trapped inside the guys desolate cabin or house, in the huge forest and the only way of getting out is to fight back, which is easier said than done.
Not exactly groundbreaking material to be seen here, as the films starts up as so many other roadtrip thrillers, in which a lonely anti-hero is being chased during the night by some lunatic, who seems to show up every now and then, then only to disappear again and then it start all over again.
However, the film do move up one step when it goes from the roads and into the deep and dark woods and turns into a survival of the fittest movie.
Considering the low budget and how fast it was made, I gotta say it was done rather well, as it surely do captures some of the creepy tone of being on the run in not excactly the most friendly of places and the acting by the main leads are also good.
All in all, I was not expecting all too much but it was surely better than the "usual" scandinavian thrillers that I have seen and while not something I will likely bother with again, I end up with a favorable rating of:
6/10