Director: Mathieu Turi
Writer: Mathieu Turi (Screenplay)
Starring: Brittany Ashworth, Gregory Fitoussi, Javier Botet, Jay Benedict, Laur D’Arista Adam
Plot: Juliette, a lone survivor of an apocalyptic era, fights to survive against hunger, thirst, a broken leg and strange, disturbing creatures that only come out at night-time.
Runtime: 1 Hour 23 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Hostile starts as we see Juliet (Ashworth) travelling around a apocalyptic environment where creatures known as Reaper’s hunt at night. While Juliet travels alone for her group searching for supplies. Juliet’s latest journey sees her having a major accident, leaving her leg broken, the car on its roof and communication with the group difficult.
Needing to survive through the nights, she finds her car coming under attack from a reaper, while using the flashbacks of her previous life to help motivate her to survive.
Thoughts on Hostile
Hostile is a horror thriller survival movie showing the need to survive against an enemy lurking on the outside. One created from a disaster, one that will strike fear into anyone who came across it. Mixing with looking back at the life once had that will become the motivation to keep battle to survive.
The idea of the trapped person is a good one, it works well for the movie. Without getting the biggest moments to shine, because the flashbacks take over too much of the movie. This does take away from the horror too often, which is frustrating to see. As the creatures look, is disturbing, when we get to see what is waiting for her. Brittany Ashworth in the leading role is great though, showing both sides of the character, the lost soul in that fell in love and the tough survivor looking to make a life in the apocalyptic world.
Final Thoughts – Hostile is nice little survivor horror movie.
