SPIDERHOLE

Spiderhole (2010)
Directed by: Daniel Simpson
Written by: Daniel Simpson
Starring: Amy Noble, Emma Griffiths Malin, George Maguire

FILM

Spiderhole

Directed By

Daniel Simpson

Starring

Amy Noble, Emma Griffiths Malin, George Maguire, John Regan, Reuben-Henry Biggs

Rating

18

Running Time

82 Minutes

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WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?

When four homeless art students decide to take up residence in an abandoned London House, their new home has a hidden secret, a terror in the corridors that watches them and waits. Soon the fight is on for their very lives!

 THE HUGHES VERDICT!

Do you remember The Hole?  No not that one by Joe Dante, but the British horror from years back that starred Thora from American Beauty and over very own keira knightly who for a brief moment got her breasts out.  Well lets just say its been re-made in some sort of form but with an added twist of gore-porn.  Yes that’s right horror fans, that dreaded term which has swamped horror of recent times is back once more, and if you really need to watch this film then its all according if you can stomach yet another dose of seen it all before torture.

Molly (Emma Griffiths Malin), Zoe (Amy Noble), Toby (George Maguire), and Luke (Reuben-Henry Biggs) are a group of art students who are homeless and on the lookout for a place to stay. Driving along in a van and with their bags packed, they peek at all the empty houses to squat in when they spot a large abandoned place.  They break in, make themselves settled and start to do the usual horror trait of drinking booze and having a bit of sex.  Everything seems perfect but strange noises are heard through the night, explained by the guys as just the old pipes making noise.  But when they awake in the morning, they find themselves locked in, all the doors and windows are steel tight, there is no escape and worse of all there is someone else there with them.  What for? Only time will tell, but when gas begins to come from the pipes on the floor, the friends realise that their lives are in danger and only a few will survive the night!

 “Oh dear, I am starring in yet another Hostel rip off!”

The shadow of Hostel looms large over Spiderhole.  Any chance of any originality is way out of the window when we hit the middle section and I suppose many like myself will sigh at the outcome of this very film.  That is a shame though because for the first half the horror stands its ground very well.  The build up holds the intrigue really well, the gang waking up to find themselves locked in made me really want to see the development but its all ruined by the torture angle that is simply become a normal fixture in modern horror.

I would have loved to have seen Spiderhole just become a sick game of a madman who has locked these people in the home and watch them self destruct, but no, its inspires to the likes of Saw and co which ruins any hope of enjoyment because lets face it, once you have seen one eye ball gorged out you have seen them all.

Spiderhole becomes tedious and bland, the outcome seeing young women running around in the dark screaming for help while looking for a way out.  Its never once scary or even thrilling, at its worse it comes across more of having a pointless existence because lets face it, why watch this when you can just chuck on Hostel?

Fans of these may well find a lot to enjoy because it does run the checklist to what the formula requires really well but for me personally I am sick of these films.  There is no more fun to be had and after seeing films like Serbian film, there is nothing more to shock us either.  Boring is the word you can simply describe to what you seeing.   The only way forward for these films is probably a Scary Movie type self parody because make no mistake, gore-porn like Slash, J Horror and many cycles before it, is dying at his own surgical hands!

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