The Cottage (2008)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Paul Andrew Williams

Writer:

Paul Andrew Williams (written by)

Release Date:

14 March 2008 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Sleeps six bloody comfortably.

Plot:

In a remote part of the countryside, a bungled kidnapping turns into a living nightmare for four central...

Plot Keywords:

Farmer | Countryside | Deformed | Kidnapping | Gangster

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Andy Serkis	...	David
Reece Shearsmith	...	Peter
Jennifer Ellison	...	Tracey
Steven O'Donnell	...	Andrew
James Bierman	...	Bouncer
Cat Meacher	...	Club Receptionist
Danny Nussbaum	...	Man in Suit
Logan Wong	...	Muk Li San
Jonathan Chan-Pensley	...	Chun Yo Fu
Simon Schatzberger	...	Steven
Doug Bradley	...	Villager with Dog
Dave Legeno	...	The Farmer (as David Legeno)
Katy Murphy	...	Farmer's Wife
Georgia Groome	...	Farmer's Daughter 1
Eden Watson	...	Farmer's Daughter 2

Also Known As:

Bienvenue au cottage (France) [fr]
Cabana Macabra (Brazil) [pt]
Kalosilthate sti... matomeni agroikia (Greece) (DVD title) [el]
Kulübe (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Un oscuro secreto (Argentina) (DVD title) [es]

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

UK

Language:

French | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

Ireland:16 (theatrical rating) | UK:18 | Australia:R (2008) | Australia:R | Argentina:16 | Netherlands:16 | Finland:K-18 | France:-12 | Ireland:18 (DVD rating) | USA:Unrated | New Zealand:R16 | Germany:18

Filming Locations:

Isle of Man

Company:

Isle of Man Film

Trivia:

According to director Williams, Tracey was originally written as a 40-year-old character but, to get the finance, he was told to cast someone young.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Peter is talking to his wife on the phone asking for his mother's account number, Tracey screams from the room and Peter drops the phone in the pond even before he got the account number. But just before David went out to call Tracey's dad, it seemed that Peter had gotten the account number written on a piece of paper.

Movie Connections:

References Predator (1987)

Mindless, twisted mayhem!

The best way to sum up this film is 'interesting...!' The violence, blood and gore is fantastic. If you want to see people decapitated and hacked to bits and want to laugh at the same time, this recent British horror comedy is definitely for you. The main characters are fun, likable and witty, Andy Serkis is fantastic, the dialogue is hilarious and the film is just entertaining from start to finish.

However, the storyline is quite simply all over the place. It's an incoherent mess to be exact! The film just twists and turns in different directions raising a number of questions, which it then leaves unanswered. Characters and subplots are introduced and then forgotten about. However, I'm guessing most people would not want to see this for the plot so if you just want some mindless, gory fun, go and see this.