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It's so weird to see how Belgium is in the ban of two flicks, first we have the remake of The Loft but secondly Belgium finally promoted a horror flick. Some do think it's the first coming out of this country but there are more, the most famous Daughter Of Darkness (1971) and maybe by far the most noticed one C'est Arrivé Près De Chez Vous (1992) also know as Man Bites Dog. But this flick here Welp will follow the line of a must see.
If you are in Belgium nowadays (oktober 2014) there's only one thing that counts, everywhere from posters to radio to television to promotion it's all about Welp. That's okay but it also gives the film some heavy issues to conquer with because the expectations are high and the mistake by the Belgian authorities to give it a Kinderen Toegelaten which means all ages can come also is argued a lot if it is visual for children at all.
And being made by a director, Jonas Govaerts, as his full feature debut but being a horror fan did add something toward the geeks out there. So far it's being praised at festivals and after seen it I must agree that it wasn't that bad after all.
It's clear that Jonas is a big fan of old school horror. It do take a while before things go awry but once it does the red stuff do flow frequently. You really have to sit almost half through the flick before the slashing starts and it's there that it shows that Jonas is a gook in the genre. The notorious eye gouching that made Zombie (1979) by Fulci notorious is done again here in some way and it do works and is a reason why it should be aged 12 or 16. But not only that. It also will ring a bell towards the Friday The 13th franchise with the bow and the smashing of the girl toward the ground.
Not only that, the score used will do remember the older geeks to those old school slashers. I can't really say that this is a slasher, therefor we are missing the typical 'slasher' elements like nudity, the heroin, the sex means death and the point of view shots. Sure, Evelien Bosmans (Jasmijn) is naked in the shower but doesn't show a thing.
When I went seeing it the audience was all teenagers and mostly girls, strangely they never screamed it out loud but it was quiet, that I can say. Maybe they are all used nowadays to see extreme gore like The Walking Dead. Still, it's well done and what I did like is what happens to the main leads. It has suspense and it do has the 'horror' in it.
Gore 2/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 3/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5
score 8/10
trashgang 1 November 2014
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