2009 86 minutes
The Fabulous Feathermaye and I always go into a horror film with a big chunk of rock salt (sea salt with lower sodium) in cheek. We’re just so jaded by what they call horror today that we’re lucky to find one in ten films of this genre worth the time it takes to view.
One solid contender came across our screen last night. “The Reeds” takes some of the best elements in horror and uses them to good effect. Fog, a remote and isolated portion of the English canal system, and young people too involved in their own pursuit of fun to see their own doom approaching.
This story takes wild turns from one extreme to another. As members of the ill-fated group begin to disappear we’re exposed to time paradoxes and things that go bump, or growl hideously from the surrounding vapor.
Fast paced and effectively edited by Peter Davies and Phil Eldridge, “The Reeds” focuses on the feeling that there is something just outside of our view, something dark, something deadly, something terrifying.
Edge of the seat, nail-biting action never lets up as this film spilled its viscera out of our large screen Blue Ray system—yikes, that’s vivid!
This film is part of a series of British films that have been marketed in the States as “HorrorFest”, which includes other titles like “Zombies of Mass Destruction”, “Graves”, “Dread” and “Kill Theory”, to name a few of the eight titles in the set.
Directed by Nick Cohen
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