Graduating from TV to movies is often seen as progress for an actor or actress, but not when the film in question is a cheap piece of amateurish crud like Young, High and Dead.
Eastenders babes Hannah Tointon and Louisa Lytton play Katy and Jenny, who go camping for the weekend with their boyfriends and gooseberry Gary (Nigel Boyle), unknowingly pitching their tents a stone's throw from where a paedo serial killer has been burying the dismembered bodies of his victims. After spending the evening hoovering up lines of coke and smoking the weed, the campers pass out for the night, waking to find that their legs have been shackled, and they are now at the mercy of the killer.
The plot for this lame slasher is uninspired, the camerawork is lousy, the sound is dreadful, and the acting perfunctory, but it is the pacing that makes it a real test of endurance, with most of the first hour consisting of dull banter, drunken rambling, bickering, and endless scenes of drinking and drug use that really drag. None of this really qualifies as character development since we learn very little of interest about the group.
At around the sixty minute mark, the killer finally appears to threaten the fivesome, at which point the film resorts to extreme wobbly cam that makes it hard to follow what is happening-not that it matters too much: there's zero tension or gore, and I couldn't have cared less who got killed or not.
1/10 - Young, High and Dead is utter cack!
