Harpoon 2019
Rob Grant's Harpoon hits the mark on both the horror and the comedy, in a film that perfectly balances personal drama, a few fantastically gory scenes, and sense of humour that holds everything together rather than getting in the way of the plot.
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Most of you will be able to count on the fingers of just one hand the number of great horror-comedies, it's one of the hardest things to get right, for every Shaun of the Dead there is a million Transylvania 6-5000s and a billion failed chances to raise a smile or shiver down your spine.
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But that doesn't matter, despite you never being able to root for any of them, Grant's witty and sparse script, combined with his assured direction means that you will be glued to the screen lapping up every minute of this nasty nautical thriller. And that's just for starters, as the film progresses and the secrets and lies of their relationships are exposed for all to see not one of them ever comes across as anything other than utterly vile. As my gran used to say "there is nought as obnoxious as an American kid in a horror film".ĭon't get wrong the characters in Harpoon are obnoxious and highly toxic, you'd hate to be one of their close friends, hell the film opens up with one of them beating the living daylights out of another one, just because he believes that he may have slept with his girlfriend. In most instances, the protagonists of these sort of films are typically so annoying, that within ten minutes you kind of wish the killer would level up with a nuclear bomb and wipe them from the face of the planet, before you have to endure another minute of their super tanned and ultra-white smug smiles. I've never been quite sure who the plethora of horror films starring young and attractive Americans are aimed at.
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Rob Grant's latest film Harpoon, is a witty, bloody and tense psychological horror that manages to do the almost impossible and make a horror film about a trio of young Americans both funny, thrilling and captivating.