Film Perfection

An absolute waste of money

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

The basis of the film is of a student documenting his life for seven days for coursework. If however it had stuck with that premis and turned out that the student had hoaxed the whole situation for the footage it could have been slightly easier to swallow. Because that's exactly what it looks like. The opening 15/20 minutes is slow and uneventful as your dragged through the introductions of the sorts of characters you avoid at all costs. Not because they're mean or edgy in anyway but because they're just painfully unlikeable. Right up until the first death scene where a slightly disgruntled postman gets slotted with a bottle deodorant. The props look like they were stolen form a discount toy store, the special effects look like they've been added by a drunk six year old child using an etcha-sketch and the delivery of each line of script from all characters is about as engaging as the helium slowly seaping a funfair balloon. The last "we will fight" statement at the very end is just cringe worthy. It's not often you watch an invasion film that makes you actually root for the end of mankind. God awful. Just god awful.

Might change the rating as only half way through but I need to know why this 40 year old is sharing a flat with student. Also he's way too old to be doing a Btec

HUNGERFORD is a tiny budgeted found footage science fiction horror film made in Britain. The worst thing about it is the youthful cast, all of whom are quite obviously in their first acting job and who come across as very wooden and unconvincing as a result. When the script tries for characterisation it falls flat, with the protagonists a group of idiotic weed smokers who take an age to figure out what's going on around them. However, the alien invasion plot, while familiar, is quite well achieved. There's a mix of graphic bug body invasion horror a la SLITHER along with some taken over people straight out of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. The second half of the film in particular really picks up the pace and features a ton of action, reminding me of BUSHWICK a little.

A bunch of housemates live in the English town of Hungerford . One day a strange electrical storm strikes the town . The housemates think nothing of it but a couple of days later the inhabitants start acting strangely More found footage a subgenre this reviewer got bored with a long time ago . That said director Drew Casson and his co-writer Jess Cleverly have make a film that while it initially didn't appeal to me didn't have me scrambling for the off button when I got in to it . Indeed for a film that has no budget , an amateur cast and whose cinematography is confined to one single camera being waved about HUNGERFORD has much more entertainment value that it has any right to which says a lot about it . Much of the impact is down to the story starting quickly with an effective image of a storm of sorts which considering the non existent budget is very well done . The storm is an unexplained transportation method for alien parasites that take over their human hosts similar to THE PUPPET MASTERS then it's zombie horror all the way . Yeah it's far from original but what it does it does very well . Some things don't entirely work like deodorant being used as a bug spray and Casson and co miss a trick in not using radio reports for exposition in order to wrench up tension as more and more people succumb to the aliens . Since HUNGERFORD is so self assured I often found myself wondering if the production might have been better off doing a more conventional film and abandoning the found footage concept all together