The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

THE LAST GREAT WILDERNESS is a weird little Scottish movie. The copy I saw of it was so cheap that it looked like it had been filmed on somebody's Camcorder, although I'm sure that wasn't the case. It's a film that's heavily indebted to THE WICKER MAN in terms of storyline, which sees a pair of disparate characters heading up to a remote village and encountering some very weird locals.If I'm honest I didn't enjoy this film at all. The script is sub-par and the quirky character work doesn't really add anything to the experience. Most of the second half, which is where the interesting stuff lies, is shot in the dark so that it's difficult to see what's going on. None of the characters are remotely sympathetic, and come the end I didn't really understand or care what was happening to them either. Other than minor roles for TRIAL & RETRIBUTION tag-team David Heyman and Victoria Smurfit, THE LAST GREAT WILDERNESS has very little going for it.

This film isn't horror, its very unique bizarre drama. Its still very good drama, quite amusing in some places and uses the art of suspense and subtlereferences to classic horror films to keep the viewer engaged. Charlie is in Scotland hoping to burn down the house of a celebrity who hasnicked his wife when Vincente throws himself upon his mercy in a motorwayservice station. Charlie is obliged to take Vincente in his car where they do a great deal of male bonding on the road. They run out of petrol on a verydeserted patch of Scottish highland and are forced to take 'refuge' (being the operative word) in a lone manor house, miles from anywhere, where there aresome very strange characters residing. The film centralises on the characters exercising their own demons by beingsurrounded and supported by other dysfunctional people who have their ownproblems. The film ends with some shocking violence. To be fair, its a veryunrealistic story and quite confusing at some points but if you, as like thecharacters of Charlie and Vincente are looking for some escapism, 'The LastGreat Wilderness' could be for you.

What? A British movie without any diamond Mockney geezers or slumming luvvie thesps? A British movie that dares to tell an interesting and for the most part unpredictable story about - gasp - recognisable, likeable characters? Is it a ghost movie? Is it a thriller? Is it STRAW DOGS? Is it THE WICKER MAN? No - it's something else, is what it is - most of all, a throwback to the days when the British film industry (quiet at the back there, stop sniggering) could make quirky, intelligent, movies that exemplified style and originality, not just an excuse to pollute the screen with stereotyped by-the-yard Britflick blah. Danny Boyle did it with 28 DAYS LATER, and this film does it too - check it out. As Joe Bob would say.

Saw this movie this evening as part of the local film festival - really thought it was great. The script was really rather unpredictable, and very funny. Casting, acting, writing, etc all came together to make it a great film.The Wicker Man comes up often with this film, deservedly so - not that it is in any way a rip off, quite original actually - it's just the vibe you get. It was really interesting to be so completely outside the people in the retreat when Charlie and Vince arrive - it was so difficult to tell what was going on, and the audience kind of gets to figure it out with the main characters - a neat device. I was thrown off a bit by Vince's last scene in the film - it did not seem to fit with the pace of the movie. I'm glad that it made it out of Scotland. so the rest of us can see it!!