Really Surprised!

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

The Draymen Estate has become something of an urban legend. Among the stories of locals and brutal violence, several people have apparently gone missing. But even the police won't go there. Two student filmmakers with a well-meaning plan to make a sympathetic documentary of life on the estate. They soon discover, that problems of drugs and crime in this community go way beyond the norm. A community, which is about to present the students with material of unimaginable horror turning their project into mayhem......Good British horrors are few and far between, and just lately, they have been increasingly harder to find thanks to film studios making the cases seem more desirable than the film itself.Just go down to your local supermarket and see the slew of horror films on the new release shelf for £7.99, they look quite good, just from the case. Now make a list of them, come back here, and see how poorly rated they actually are.Never judge a book by its cover.This however, is a different kettle of fish altogether. The film doesn't have anything original about it, documentary crew go to a notorious estate that houses the most abhorrent looking and acting people you have ever met, and instantly, you are reminded of The Hills Have Eyes.Anybody with an iota of common sense would have just turned and walked away, but for once,the film at least has a little bit of an explanation for the students doing so.It's pretty tense once we get to the notorious estate, there's anger brewing from the locals, and it seems only a super drug can settle their agitation.But that's not the main plot point in this film, there is something far more bizarre in the film, and this is where it plays its Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets Harry Brown card.So for a British horror that has gone straight to DVD, it's pretty solid stuff, but you still get the heroes making silly decisions and just doing the wrong thing all through the film.That's why we love horror films, is they make us appreciate common sense.

We're all used to the group of annoyingly-attractive American college kids who take a roadtrip and end up falling foul to a band of psychotic locals. The teens run, they scream, but, try as they might, they can never seem to get out of that backwater town they stopped for gas in.This is one of those films... only it seems to be set in the inner city. Some might find that a bit hard to believe - that people have no way out of somewhere crawling with people. However, that's not the worst of Community's crimes.It's about two college kids who are making a documentary on a notorious housing estate, allegedly filled with the dregs of society. One point in the film's favour is that - based on that setting - it could have been a 'found footage' film. It isn't. And that's one of the main reasons I kept watching.Guess what? The two teens get more than they bargained for when the locals turn psycho on them. Cue the running, the screaming, the capture, the escape, a bit more running and lots more screaming.I've read some of the other reviews on here and it's clear that this film is taking a lot of harsh criticism. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's a masterpiece, just that it follows a tried and tested pattern that's been done so many times before that there's nothing new here to truly enjoy. The acting and gore is a little suspect at times, but that could be forgiven if the films was a bit more original.All you have here is another Texas Chainsaw style film, albeit in a different location to the middle of small town America.Also, if you check out some of the 10/10 ratings for this film, I can't help but be sceptical about whether the film-makers are getting their friends to review the film. Most appear to be from authors who only review this and either one or no other films. Hmm. Am I being too cynical?

CLEARLY MARKED MILD SPOILERThis seems to be one of those movies where you either you get it or you don't. It's uniquely British in that it deals with a British setting, the current Daily Mail readers fear of those pesky hoodies and treats it all with a British sense of humour. The initial set up is creepy before turning into a black comedy in the same vein as Jam and League of Gentlemen. The leads are pleasantly good looking in that vacant, generic 'Skins' way, all the character is provided by Terry Bird (who is fantastic as Dumpy) and Paul McNealy as Auntie.SPOILERS ***There's a scene where he removes his wig and speaks to Isabelle in his real voice and tells her how he discovered the secret of his weed and it is a amazing piece of workSPOILER ENDS ***To sum up, this movie is nowhere as bad as the reviews say, these people are either not Brits or have a very light sense of humour. It is also not a 'drugs are bad' movie. It's a pastiche, parody and mockery of the Daily Mail way of thinking with some random horror thrown in.I was actually surprised by the twist too

I wasn't expecting much from Community given its 3.9 rating here on IMDb, however I quite enjoyed this creepy little Urban Horror. Now I watch a slew of movies, horror movies in particular and there are simply mostly average and below average made movies. Community however, despite it's low budget, was I though above average. Taken in the light of an Urban Horror short story I thought the acting was decent and the use of sound particularly good; this isn't a particularly gory film a lot happens off camera. Taken points few horrors are not formulaic - the likes of Martyrs being an example of a great horror few have seen which breaks that mold. However Community was not a dumb movie like a lot of US horrors. There wasn't academy inspiring material as to why things happened as they didn't however it wasn't just plain dumb, could have been smarter in some points but was smart enough at times too. The premise resonates some points which added to creeping me out, as I grew up in a place where there were estates the police did not enter and some terrible things happened within them, and there's certainly use of symbolism within this movie. And Auntie..creepy or what. Finally I am always one for joking about female leads in horrors generally making bad decisions that causes disasters and I thought this was another one of those, however I was able to suspend disbelief because this wasn't the case entirely here.