TriangleTriangle (2010)
Directed by Christopher Smith
It's that time of year where I look at every body's Top 10 lists and watch the one's I think may make mine. So I saw that Triangle was on one of these lists and I gave it a shot.
It's no square.
Triangle delivers everything you want from a horror movie. Heightened Hitchcockian suspense, twizzler twists and turns and there is blood by the pint. For a movie created out of the UK/Australia that boasts a group of Aussies doing their best American accents, it delivers on everything you want in a horror thriller.
Your mind will trip out from the amount of WTF is in this film. So much head turning plot twists you may need to drink some Four Loko to get it all straight. It all comes full triangle and by the end you checking IMDB message boards and trivia to find out what's the what.
Well I did.
Boring Plot-O-Matic
When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong. Her suspicions are realized when the yacht hits a storm and the group is forced to board a passing ocean liner to get to safety, a ship Jess is convinced she's been on before. The ship appears deserted, the clock on board has stopped, but they are not alone... Someone is intent on hunting them down, one by one. And Jess unknowingly holds the key to end the terror.
Awesome Review-O-Matic
This review won't be that long because if I explained what's going on it would give away tons of good stuff. Like all movies like Inception, Sixth Sense, The Others you have to pay close attention to get the clues sprinkled throughout. But the film gets into the creamy filling quite quickly. Jess (Melissa George) and her friends go yachting, big storm, encounter strange ship. Spooky strange things happen on the ship.
SLIGHT SPOILERS below...
So we get into weird time travel mode and things get kooky doubly as they investigate the ship. Our crew gets bloodied and shot at and everything seems to revolve around Jess. The best comparison to Triangle is the low budget brilliant Timecrimes which I never reviewed because my head hurt after watching that awesomeness. I would say Triangle is a horror version of Timecrimes.
END SLIGHT SPOILERS
The performance of Melissa George is solid. She plays her part well evolving her character into different iterations. The rest of the cast are just stand ins to the reveals we see. Smith who directed the uber awesome Severance cleverly employs the stand by suspense techniques with Kubrick's The Shining and Hitchcock flicks. There's talk of mythology scattered throughout as the film creates its own. Sure there may be BIG plotholes and logic questions. Even I started questioning if our main hottie Jess did this or that, her dilemma would get resolved but I decided to go with it. When your watching a fantastico time triangle, you just have to shut down the old cerebral CPU.
The funny thing about Triangle is when you think it's over, it keeps hitting you with more crazy WTF.
Suffice it to say Triangle is the one flick I've seen this year that had me Wikipedia-ing, Googling and IMDB-ing after I saw it. I enjoyed the film but wanted to understand it completely. There is always one film a year that makes my Top 10 list that has me hitting the message boards to get some answers. That makes you think minutes, hours, days and months after you've seen it. I like seeing those films (though in small quantities).Triangle tries to out clever you and it succeeds. You want a horror thriller to challenge you, make you really try hard to find out what's going on. As the ending approached I had my theories and I kinda knew what was going to happen. You can see the cliche coming but it's all good. You want to see THAT ENDING. The one you feel is coming.
Triangle does just that. It's definitely going to make my Top 10 List for 2010.
It's that time of year where I look at every body's Top 10 lists and watch the one's I think may make mine. So I saw that Triangle was on one of these lists and I gave it a shot.
It's no square.Oh oh. Fuck me.
Gore-ipedia
Shotgun trauma
Head trauma
Slice and dice
Nude-ipedia
Melissa George for an hour and change is in a tight white tank top and Daisy Dukes. Yum.
WTF moment
A pile of dead bodies....say what?
The Jaded Viewer's Final Prognosis
One of the year's best horror films you never heard of. Its out on DVD and probably on Netflix as well. One of the year's best....ARGHHHHH I better stop writing now.
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I was all over this one last year, when apparently I was the only person who even heard of it. Loved the hell out of it and it soon became one of my favourite flicks in quite a long time. Also made my top horror movies list in 2009 - it was number 3, I believe.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love this film. An incredible change of pace and as you stated, one that will keep you thinking long after the credits roll.
ReplyDeleteThe scene where she discovers the piled up bodies on a level of the ship, shook me like no other.
Totally. That piled up bodies scene was awesomeirfic. I was like WTF!! Oh no you didn't! Who's your daddy?!??! (oops wait)
ReplyDeleteGreat flick. I think its solidified a spot on my top 10 list for sure.
Hesitant to see this since Smith also directed "Creep", right? That was pretty foul and not at all a recommendation for his work.
ReplyDeletePro Film "I LOVE IT"
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