Primal
Primal
NR | 22 September 2010 (USA)
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Anja and five friends join anthroplogy student, Dace, on a journey to study a remote, ancient rock painting. Their excitement vanishes when Mel becomes delirious after skinny-dipping in the waterhole. Feverish, bleeding, confused, she physically and mentally regresses to a vicious predatory state. Mel has gone primal. Mel’s lover and friends realise they are the prey as she savagely hunts them down. Before they can escape another one of them starts to regress, posing a hideous choice; kill their friends or be killed by them. Their only hope of survival is through a cave, where Anja learns too late the meaning of the ancient rock art they came to study.

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LouHomey

From my favorite movies..

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Teringer

An Exercise In Nonsense

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Afouotos

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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Justina

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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videorama-759-859391

Here we tiredly go again. 5 20+ too good looking lot (the lead male, currently in Home And Away, big surprise?) go off in the beautiful outdoorsy, mountains for a weekend of fun, and adventure, little do they know scenario. Cliché'd characters and predicabilitie's follow in this hugely disappointing horror indie, and it's a bloody shame, excuse the double meaning pun, as you'll find out, as gore hounds will be sold short on this one. The loud hottie, becomes rapid and possessed, after venturing in this cave, that saw this ritualistic murder, many years, prior. She grows fangs, springs out and attacks, bringing some familiar shades of that horrid and ghastly shocker, Howling 3, 30 years, prior, in this poor explained story, must less gorier than you expect. This messy horror is unforgettably stupid, with poorly drawn characters, where except the female lead and the class clown, you really couldn't give two hoots about the rest, in a horror you'll be glad to see the back off. Just another reason, most Oz horrors suck. Pathetic. Bet you this director, is a real fan of Howling 3, I'd bet my top bottom dollar. Stop at the misleading cover, with this one.

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rachel allen

This film was disappointing but in many ways it shouldn't have been, young peeps in the remote outback, monsters with teeth (scary teeth), what can go wrong? It starts off pretty well as the characters are believable enough and the backstory makes sense. I started getting bored when the insects arrived at the camp. Perhaps I missed it, but what were these insects? What were they doing? They ate a big hole in a tent and a bag, but then seemed to go away. They reappeared however when the peeps get back to their car, finding the insects had eaten the tyres. Obvious escape route thwarted but puzzling how these insects were so selective in what they ate and didn't eat! I was also puzzled by the ending- it just seemed rushed given the build up.

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blighter-soul

Acting is novice, rather utterly dumb! Concept is yuck and the movie is a total failure. What on earth do you spend money to make movies like this for?Anger watching this movie all the way. Throw in a bunch of sadists and make a useless film.Acting; -10/10 Concept; -7/10You are better off watching a cartoon show rather than this movie. Showing some gooey stuff with vampiric teeth does not make a movie a horror flick. Recommendation: A strict no!One of the most insanely stupid movies to be ever made.

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gavin6942

A group of friends travel below ground to view ancient cave paintings but soon find a horrible sickness gripping one of their own, which leaves them with nothing in their mind but a primal blood lust.Josh Reed wrote, directed, edited and produced this film. Any love or vitriol should be placed squarely on his shoulders. (At this time -- 2012 -- he seems to be devoting his time to the television series "The Hamster Wheel".) I notice others have called this a "good Australian horror film". Is that a compliment or not? Are Australian horror films so different from American, British or other films that they have to be judged on their own scale? If so, I would argue this is a good horror film and a great Australian horror film. Far better than "Wolf Creek" (which is respected for reasons far beyond my comprehension).Early on, we have a nasty rabbit impalement. While it did not bother me, those who dislike animal violence (even when the rabbit is clearly fake) may be a bit disturbed or grossed out. I will say some of the effects are slightly cheesy (such as the jumping shots), but the "primal" teeth are done very well. What was probably a cheap prop actually comes across as pretty effective.

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