- Jennifer Armour as Jenny
- Jeremy Isabella as Ethan
- Paul S. Tracey as Rayn
- Alina Golovlyova as Katarina
- Inna Belikova as Inna
Plot: An American film crew heads off to Kiev to interview the locals regarding historic cannibalism. Once there confirmed they are introduced to a local witch, who explains that supernatural forces were responsible. Whilst carry out a seance, the crew summons the spirit of killer and cannibal, Andrei Chikatilo, who was active in the area in the late 1970s and 1980s. Chikatilo begins his spree again
Hmmmmm, cannibalism, OK. I haven't seen too many films regarding eating other people, unless you count porn, but this one is a found footage movie and if there's one thing I love, its found footage! The film gets going straight away, with our American docu-film makers arriving in Ukraine and meeting their creepy guide and his translator daughter. The war ravished location, and slightly simple locals gives it an immediate Deliverance vibe which works well.
No, its not Croydon.
Soon enough our friends and their guide have arrived at a deserted, semi derelict, farm house, with the local witch joining them who reckons supernatural forces were responsible for Chikatilo's crimes. Sure enough, as soon as the sun goes down, they get drunk and one of them suggests doing a seance! Yup, they're in cliché city!
Don't scratch the fuc#king table!
All sounds pretty bog standard yeah? Well it is but its all done OK. Nothing outstanding but more then watchable and the whole cast are pretty good. A few jumps later and the sun has risen, the guide has vanished and the glass used on the ouiji board sits, still upturned, on the table with the witch claiming that the spirit raised by the group the previous night, was under the glass and was gonna prevent anyone from leaving alive!
Underground mayhem ensues!
So now we get the usual night vision jump scares and it goes pretty run of the mill until 20 minutes from the end the film heads underground which is always garunteed scares! The effects are nice, the sense of claustrophobia underground is awesome and the ending just about lifts the film from the gutter in to a mid table winner. All in all a nice, well shot independent, found footage film. The actors were above average and the unique location helps me to recommend this film too anyone who likes found footage, cannilbilistic, Ukrainian ghost stories with nice twists.
Summary:
Great because:
- Actors do a good job
- Effects are pretty effective
- It goes underground!
- Buried alive? No thank you
Crap because:
- It could have been scarier
- No gore to be found, not that it needed it
Hamster Rating:
Gore: 1
Scares: 3
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