Get Away

Boy the Swedish tourism board can't be too happy about this film. They were probably just recovering from 'Midsommar' and then bam, along comes 'Get Away'. This movie was quite something.

I've never seen a film go from 0 to 100 so quickly before. The first two thirds of the film I was basically just bored. There was the odd laugh and a creepy thing or two going on, but mostly it was just fodder. Then a twist came out of absolute left field and suddenly the film went off the walls bonkers for the entire final third. And that portion of the film I mostly loved.

The film is lacking a lot of polish. I also thought with Nick Frost writing it that it might've been a little funnier overall too. It's impossible to hate a film like this, however I simply can't give it more than a 5.5/10.

Nick Frost likes a light horror. After just starring in the ghostly "Black Cab" he stars in and wrote extremely silly slasher send-up "Get Away". He & wife Aisling Bea (with teen kids Maisie Ayres & Sebastian Croft) go on holiday to a small, remote Swedish island that's about to go into its annual macabre festival... and does NOT want them there. Though the story has hints of "Midsommer" the style couldn't be more different, and the quality's way off too. Steffen Haars' direction is basic and the performances are mediocre (though Ayres is decent on her big-screen debut, as are Eero Milonoff & Anitta Suikkari as nutty local Swedes). It's moderately entertaining, but sure ain't great.

An English family of 2.4 children arrive on a small Swedish island, to witness and observe the celebration of Karantän, unfortunately a killer is also on the island.

There's something very old school about this movie, it felt as though it could have been made back in 2006, when this style was very popular, so from that point of view it was familiar, but fresh.

It doesn't deserve some of the negative reviews, I can't help but wonder if some of those are based on the first half of the movie, which is very, very slow, but countered by a riotous second half.

The twist was unexpected, and it was fun to see the tables turned.

The performances are good, and there are some hilarious one liners, with Frost daring to make jokes about subjects that have become humour free.

The first half is just too slow for me to class this as a good film, but the conclusion was a hoot. Once again you'll wonder what The Swedes must make of the way Brits like to portray them, only slightly less weird than in Midsommar.

6/10.

A generally well shot and well acted movie with humor that worked with some nice music and a great setting to boot. Plenty of reasons to love this one which makes it easily under-rated at its current 5.4 stars as of writing this.

Family takes a trip to an isolated Swedish island with an ugly history of cannibalism and things go south for everyone, sort of. Saying much more about the actual story is going to give thing away but most of the humor does come from star Nick Frost and co-star Aisling Bea.

Most of the horror content comes from the theme and the large sums of blood. So it is a very bloody movie with some bodily dismemberment. Only thing I would have liked looking back would have been some clues about what was to come but they opted for the surprise approach so the whole ending is ultimately wrapped up behind some very dark curtains. I think that's the only part of the movies execution that didn't really work in its favor.

The musical score is good and meant to add to the humor. Keeping the movie short probably helped if the plot isn't going to have to much depth to it. Enjoyable well made dark comedy horror.

Pretty entertaining international folk horror that develops into a slasher comedy. Features two of my favourite comedy actors - both Nick Frost and Aisling Bea put in good performances as characters that get more interesting when the killing starts. Feels somewhat rushed at times with having mixed genres and cultures (packing a lot in). It may have been better as a short series where we got to know more about the locals, the dark history of the island and the visiting family. Left some unanswered questions about the history, the traditions and decapitations referred to! Bit scary as a slasher, bit unnerving as a folk horror and sometimes darkly funny.