not as good as all the hype

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

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!

YOUNG, HIGH AND DEAD is an appallingly bad British indie horror flick directed in the worst and cheapest way imaginable. The whole thing screams cheap and tawdry, with visuals marred by fake grindhouse-style print damage and a weird old fashioned, silent film-style flickering effect that renders the whole thing all but unwatchable. The plot is much like that of SHROOMS, with some unpleasant characters heading into the woods for some drug-fuelled fun but finding something nasty instead. It's slow and boring for the most part, laughably gruesome and overwrought at the climax. You do wonder what two well-established TV stars, Hannah Tointon and Louisa Lytton, were doing appearing in this.

I Watch this last year and i love it despite being Low Budget and had wonderful female cast member Louisa Lytton (who is one of my British Love Platonic in the U.K) and Hannah Tointoni also love the plot of the film: 5 friends (2 couples and a Single Guy) going to the wood for the weekend unknown to them that there's a serial Killer lurking in the wood who's also a Pedophile and i love the scene near the end (WARNING SPOILER)in which John get run over by a car driven by Jenny with Blood Splatter in the front car which is a reference to a scene in Robocop (1987)Louisa Lytton is a wonderful actress and a hot one she's great playing Final Girl in the film i wish to meet her someday when i travel to U.KMy Review 7/10

After 52 minutes I shouted at the screen "just start killing them already." There was not enough gore to fill a 30 second TV advert in the whole film.The audio is literally all over the shop. You can't hear the characters and then some ominous music blasts through your ear drums (ominous music when nothing is actually happening most of the time, incidentally).This film drags on and on. As do the characters (or rather they drone on and on).As a big horror fan I am no stranger to stupid decisions made by characters, but to give the smallest girl the only car keys and the only weapon? To let her run off by herself to 'get tools' without freeing the others first? To then sit around and bicker/argue about your love lives while chains are around your ankles and one guy has a finger missing? For f*cks sake.Let me give you one more example. In Sin City when Marv goes to the shop to get some razor wire the scene lasts about 20 seconds and is very cool/punchy. When the killer here goes to the shop it takes at least five minutes (though it feels like longer) for him to buy some duct tape, cable ties and a roll of something (the whole scene replete with that ominous music, of course).I don't review many films on here at all, but the one review posted giving this 8/10 and calling it "entertaining, edge of your seat stuff" (apparently you don't just see that on box covers) compelled me to.I wanted to like this film, I like horror I like indie projects and I want British cinema to do well. But this? Avoid it. Avoid it like the f*cking plague.