Body At Brighton Rock

Well Ive found it. The horror movie equivalent of a white girl in Uggs clutching a pumpkin spice latte and chanting Live, Laugh, Love over and over again for an hour and a half. To call this excrement is an insult to actual manure. If I could sue the writer, director, producer, entire makeup team, full cast, and every single human being right down to the key grips, I would. I am that salty about losing the portion of my life I just wasted watching this film.

Wow! Realistic bear scene! Something you will not forget!

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.

Just watched and I loved it! Awesome that it was released on video and theatres at the same time, so I can watch it after our kids go to bed!!

As described.

Where to start? Poor plot, horrible acting, the lead actress is unlikable, and this movie is all over the place. Common sense went out the window when writing this. Very boring and then 3/4 of the way they go for weird and its all downhill from there. Unrealistic. Girl can barely manage to breathe and walk at the same time and then suddenly at the end with a bear, they have her a survival expert that can think on her feet.

Waste of money!

This is a worse case scenario in the middle of the wilderness. Lead star definitely makes it harder on herself due to lack of common sense but overall this was a good film. Recommend if you enjoy survival films.

Not that great

Kept my attention, good storyline. Very B budget though. But like most thrillers and horror movies, it was based on one bad decision after another. If people in movies made sound decisions, movies would only last three minutes.