Body At Brighton Rock

It was a lot better than I thought it was going to be in the beginning. Glad I watched it.

never ordered it at all

Amazing movie! Arrived in great condition.

Fabulous movie. Derp on many levels.

Super low budget, CW level acting, and a main character who is written to be so unlikable that I struggled to finish the thing. Pretty bad movie

Everything you should not do in the woods.I kept hoping she would fall off the rock so the movie would end.My friend didn’t make it through the first 10 minutes.

Good quality

It’s difficult to make a truly original horror film. So much has been done before and fresh ideas are difficult to pull off no matter how talented the director. With that in mind BODY AT BRIGHTON ROCK is a movie that does its best but in the end is offers mediocre scares. At least director/writer Roxanne Benjamin deserves credit for trying. Wendy (Karina Fontes) is a part-time park ranger at a major national park filled with beautiful countryside and mountainous terrain. Not as skilled as her friends she opts to trade one of them to cover replacing signs along the trails of one of the more difficult areas. All goes fine until she gets lost in those mountains and then comes across a dead body. Near Brighton Rock on the map she calls in her location, at least where she thinks she is, and reports the body. Even though in an area with bears roaming around she’s told that she will have to make camp and stay there with the body until the following morning, it’s too late for a chopper to successfully land nearby. She follows her instructions but then strange things begin happening. The first is that while on a nearby mountain top she sees someone checking out the body. She tells him to leave it alone and has a conversation with him. He tells her he lives nearby and that he saw the body. Eventually they part ways and he leaves her to her lone vigil. It is during this night alone with a dead body nearby that things begin to happen. The question becomes are they really happening or is it an overactive imagination fueled by her surroundings. On top of that the question of her hallucinating the things she’s seeing is brought forward. It’s a harrowing night and one that she’s not likely to forget but it is the twist at the end you won’t see coming that elevates this film from what it was at the beginning. Making a horror film that takes place in a national park (unless of course it’s another teens getting killed by mad slasher flick) is not an easy task. It’s even more difficult when you rely on a single character and a dead body to move the story forward. But Benjamin does an admirable job of making the film a bit of a frightener. Perhaps not for the die-hard horror fanatic but definitely for the more average film goer. Fontes does a decent job here as well but it would be nice to see her in a meatier role before praising or condemning her as an actress. From what is seen here she has great potential. As for the rest of the cast their parts are small enough that they’re not quite noticeable enough to comment on. The end result is a movie that offers some chills and spills and a few quick laughs but mostly has you rooting for this new ranger. If you place yourself in her shoes you have to wonder if you would have chosen to spend the night with a dead body in the middle of bear infested woods or not. Let’s hope none of us ever have to make that call and if so that you’ve not seen this movie beforehand.

If I could give this two and a half stars I would, but I dont feel right giving it two stars so it gets three. It was enjoyable and it kept my attention the whole time, but at the end of it I couldnt help but wonder what the point of it all was. The acting, tone, and concept behind the film were good, but these strong parts cant make up for how weak the overall direction is. There were definitely scenes that were scary/compelling but as scene after scene happens it starts to feel like the film is wandering. I get that shes trapped out in the woods but it feels like we get too many scenes of half-baked scenarios that dont really contribute to anything in the end. **Minor spoilers** I wanted there to be some larger point to it because I was genuinely intrigued by the tent she found and the guy she encountered, but the way the twist at the end tried to tie it all together was very disappointing and didnt provide a satisfactory conclusion. I like parks and vaguely artsy indie horror films so this piqued my interest, and if youre like me then Id say go for it. Theres definitely worse films out there. But if you dont have any special interest in it Id say keep looking.

poorly done. weak acting, poor camera work. we actually had to turn it off a little way through because it was too hokey