Directed by first-timers Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage, the film is an unsettling, holy spirit-fueled thriller about a pastor’s daughter ( Top of the Lake’s Alice Englert) who rebels against her isolated Pentecostal community after discovering that she’s pregnant out of wedlock. We also get a classic crushing scene and an ending that recalls the wistfulness of the best Fifties contributions to the genre.įar from a good film, this is nonetheless an entertaining one that slithers along at a healthy pace and delivers where it counts.This past weekend, the Sundance sensation Them That Follow opened in limited release.
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This is compensated for by some imaginative set pieces that draw on the best of the monster movie tradition, with a bit of pantomime thrown in. Some scenes work well but the lengthier action scenes, especially when the snakes fight each other, are let down by really lazy CGI work (weak even by the standards of the time). The same cannot be said for the special effects, which are very variable. Though it's confused by some seemingly random shifts of location, the plot is more substantial than is often the case in films of this type. The dialogue is awful, as it ought to be, and suitably entertaining. And there are lots of semi-naked women, including exotic dancers who look so bored with their job that they can't be bothered to panic when confronted by a monster - they probably see worse than that at chucking-out time on Saturday nights. There's also cheesy macho posturing from the hunter, who seems to be trying to be Indiana Jones, forgetting Indy's famous phobia. Fortunately it also has more traditional monster on monster action, with lots of biting and thrashing of tails, and there's an adequate amount of human-munching.
That's right - this is a film about the personal lives of giant snakes. Things are complicated by the city boy hunters in pursuit of their promised prize, a few unlucky locals, and the rather complicated personal relationship that develops between the snakes. Using the scientist's state-of-the-art tracking system (which would go on to appear in Sharktopus) she'll lead them to the enemy. She's their last line of defence against the giant size python that has gone AWOL after being released by a callous big game trophy hunter.
The trouble is, he's already in love - with a giant size boa constrictor called Betty.īetty is needed to help the FBI. They only have 14 hours to save the Earth (or the local town, anyway) but she has other ideas. He's a geeky reptologist who turns out to be not quite what she imagined. She's a straight-A scientist who prefers to spend her time in the pool.
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