Touches You

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

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

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

A young couple go to a remote and deserted coral island for a camping holiday, only to find that the island is inhabited by a ghost seeking retribution for a past outrage. Uninhabited started quite well at first and built a terrific mystery but once the twist started happening and the end came in the film lost it's track and just throwed one disappointing scene after the other. The main girl does her best, the main guy was kinda wooden tho. Overall a disappointing horror film that started interesting and went downhill after that. (2/10)

Ever since the tale 'And the sea will tell' by Vincent Bugliosi and Bruce Henderson became a bestseller, numerous attempts have been made to discover the horror behind uninhabited islands. This Australian film comes straight from the director Bill Bennett, who successfully directed his critically and publicly acclaimed flick 'In a Savage Land.' Bennett, however, disappoints this time.Beth (Gerlandine Hakewill) and Harry (Henry James) set off for a vacation to spend an idyllic time at an uninhabited island somewhere in the Coral Sea, off the eastern coast of Australia. Once there, the couple is fascinated by an appealing tropical climate, turquoise waters, white sands and pleasant winds. Led by their basic instincts the two begin combing the island and finally discover an old house and an abandoned grave with a name 'Coral' on it. They also become victims of lunatic shark-hunters, who tie the couple and leave them to die. The couple is however saved by an unseen entity, who forces the lunatics to take to their heels. The apparition's presence in the island is validated by 'her' sobs in the air.Further investigation leads Beth to a diary, which belongs to someone who came to the island long back. The diary accounts the history of island claiming it to be haunted by the spirit of a girl named Coral. The diary says Coral worked for a fishing crew at the island a century ago, and once got a deadly stone fish sting. She was subsequently raped by other men of the crew. Now Coral turned into a ghost and had since been avenging her death by killing anyone who comes for spending vacation in this tropical paradise.The film suffers from lack of content. Since the content is meager, several unnecessary sequences have been added. The photography is great but gets less attention from the director. The director could have used the silence of island for building a great atmosphere, which unfortunately 'Uninhabited' falls short of. The ending is fizzy and doesn't explain much about Beth's future. Harry dies in a jiffy and his part ends abruptly. I don't think its a good idea to be so concise when it comes to direction. I would anytime prefer to read 'And the sea will tell' or watch 'BBC's South Pacific episodes' instead of watching this somewhat childish and awkward creation or film, if this could be called one.

This movie does manage to keep you wondering for much of its runtime, which is an accomplishment, and I would say it's somewhat under-rated as a result. For a good part of the time you're not entirely sure whether the strange events on the island are supernatural, or whether there's a very human explanation. You guess at the former, but there's enough going on that you wonder and you're not really sure. As a result, while the movie isn't exactly taut with suspense it holds the viewer's attention.Geraldine Hakewell and Henry James did decent enough jobs as the two lead characters - Beth and Harry - who head off to an uninhabited island off the northeast coast of Australia in the Great Barrier Reef for an idyllic 10 day vacation away from the world. For much of the movie, they're the only two characters. They carried things well enough, although I didn't think they had much chemistry with each other. Their relationship didn't strike me as "real." Things don't seem entirely right almost from the time of their arrival on the island. The captain who transports them from the island seems to make a definite suggestion to them that they won't stay for the 10 days, makes sure they have a satellite phone and tells them he can be back in 5 hours if they call. Does he know something? You wonder. Almost from the start, strange things begin to happen. Are there other people on the island? Or is what's happening the result of something not exactly human? That's the guessing game. It's decent - as I said, not greatly suspenseful, but not bad. I wasn't taken with the ending; with what happens what the captain returns to the island for Beth and Harry, and the final shot left a great deal up in the air - too much to leave the viewer truly satisfied. But it's not a bad time waster. (6/10)

Uninhabited is a low-budget horror movie with a different setting from your average horror movie. So, having so said, if this review prompts you to watch it, don't expect a Hollywood blockbuster - for that it certainly is not!However, it IS worth the time in my opinion (but, as my other film reviews have probably shown, I am not overly critical). In a way it is unfortunate that viewers are "preconditioned" by the producers of films attributing genres to them because, if you watched this movie with absolutely no prior knowledge, you might be forgiven for thinking you were about to watch a romantic love story set on a sunlit tropical island and thus be in a totally different frame-of-mind when things start to happen. Other reviewers have described the location as beautiful (and even more effusively) but it isn't really. All you have is a small island in the Great Barrier Reef with some typical bush and sandy beaches - nothing else! OK, I guess that's fine if you like sandy beaches, clear blue water and scrubby bush but Bora Bora it ain't!Other reviewers have been highly critical of the actors (and there are only really two of them along with four extras) and maybe their comments have some justification. But this is, as I have said, a low-budget movie. I wouldn't have been surprised to learn that it was a team of university cinematography students' exam project - and, if it was, would the negative reviews have been different? IMDb has no information (other than film credits) for either of the two lead actors which, in itself, indicates that they are basically unknowns. Henry James has been particularly severely dealt with - not without reason - but it IS his first effort and, to be thrust into a lead role on one's debut is a bit rough to say the least - especially when his character is a somewhat irrational person. Harry's behaviour, whilst maybe not totally unbelievable, is definitely irrational at times whilst his girlfriend, Beth's is much more believable. In a way, I felt a little sorry for Henry James because his character, Harry is, to put it bluntly, a dick-head - and how long will that stain on his otherwise clean acting sheet take to wear off? Some reviewers have described both actors in somewhat over-generous terms. In my opinion, neither of them are beautiful - but I believe that adds to the acceptability of the movie. They are just your average ordinary-looking young couple off on a "different" holiday that turns into something more. I think that some reviewers could try being a little more charitable and remember what it is they have watched before vilifying movies like Uninhabited. If their comments are indicative of their expectations, why are they watching movies like Uninhabited at all? Let them stick to big-budget Hollywood (or Bollywaood!) productions starring unrealistically beautiful specimens of humanity and then, if they aren't happy, give the seasoned professionals a hard time that won't bother them at all (if they ever read them, of course, which I very much doubt they do - whilst I imagine aspiring young actors like Henry James and Geraldine Hakewell probably do!).Come on people, if you decide to watch this type of film then how about making a little effort to encourage the newbies to YOUR entertainment industry? If you feel an unavoidable urge to be critical, then make your criticism constructively suitable to the situation - don't do your best to destroy whatever aspirations these novices have to do better. The world isn't full of Spielbergs, Pitts and Bullocks - but, with encouragement, maybe some novices might end up there.