stoobt This isnt the worst film that I've ever watched, which is about as high as my praise is going to get.The set-up creates a little bit of tension, and triggers a mild sense of light curiosity, but the main reason i bothered watching to the end was the hope that i would get to see every last one of the awful characters die.There's little that the film does particularly well. There is only one character who i found myself liking at any point, and they're uncerimoniously dispatched without much fuss. The script isnt bad per se, it just seems a bit half-arsed and under developed - which in turn makes the characters fairly half-arsed and under developed.All in all, the sort of film you 'leave on' rather than 'put on'.

atinder I saw this movie once before, a few years ago and I really enjoyed, I was so shocked when I saw this movie for 50p in a shop! This movie as some of the most vile nasty humans, who are criminals and very unlikable assholes, so when they do die, you don't really care. You just want them to die in the most gruesome way possible.This movie was really clever with the whole camouflage scenes, I found those scenes a little creepy , as you have no idea where he is.Some of the death scenes were really well made, it's amazing how they did that, very gory and gruesome when the dogs attack and the other Booby traps were really good as well.The twist near the end was seeable as it was not a really a shock at all and I found the ending a bit silly, it's didn't really fit in with the plot the movie at all.The acting was really good, the deaths were gruesome and nasty evil bloodhound teens had what was coming for them.(Yes I was rooting for nasty dogs (Yes I am dog lover)even these dogs seem nice then humans. 7 out of 10

Susan Ivanova For much of the movie, I thought it carried along rather well. However I had a huge problem with the ending. The implication was that the soldier who was hunting them was special forces,i.e., SAS. How in the world can we be expected to believe that a street punk could not be easily handled by an SAS soldier in a knife fight? I thought that there was a lot of potential in this movie. The build up was all quite good. But it just utterly collapsed into an absurd pile at the end for me. This super soldier who hangs out there, ingeniously picking them all off one by one. And a two-bit street punk armed with an ax is able to get the best of him? Please! I completely regret wasting my time.

Spikeopath Wilderness is directed by Michael J. Bassett and written by Dario Poloni. It stars Sean Pertwee, Alex Reid, Toby Kebbell, Karly Greene, Stephen Wight & Lenora Crichlow.After the suicide of one of their inmates at a British male young offender institution, a group of teenage offenders and their prison officer, are sent to a remote island for outdoor rehabilitation. Once there, tho, they find that they are not alone as two young female offenders and their officer are also using the island for the same purpose. A battle of the sexes is the least of their collective worries, however, because someone is stalking them. With only one thing on their mind; to kill them all.Chances are that if you pull ten reviews off of the internet for Wilderness you will find in most of them references to Scum, Dog Soldiers, Battle Royale and Deliverance. Which while it comes across as lazy pigeon-holing, is a fair enough point to make. However, Wilderness, while not being as good as any of those film's, deserves to be allowed to stand on its own two feet with survivalist heart proudly beating in its chest. Yes the story is a touch derivative, but Bassett's film is pleasingly nasty and serves the gore hounds well. After the set up introduces us to the inmates of this wing of Moorgate Prison, where the moody Callum (Kebbell) walks into a den of bullying and suicide, it's clear that these are not characters we are meant to like. This collective bunch consists of robbers, murderers and sex offenders. As a group of people they are as unlikable as it gets, this works a treat once we get to the island and things start to go belly up as they come under attack from an unseen assailant and start to turn on each other in the process. Who do you root for? Eh? Exactly.With the characters' struggle to bond together to survive, we have the reason why Wilderness should be fairly judged on its own terms. Leaving aside for the moment that it contains inventive and grisly deaths, that it thrusts these young hot-headed adults into a Lord of the Fliesian (there's another one for you) type situation makes for a fascinating watch. Particularly as the sense of dread that lands on the island with the protagonists never leaves the film. There's also a wry observational arc on the British institutional system, we may be ducking from crossbow bolts and snarling German Shephard's, but Bassett and his team are not just about the blood. No sir. Even as Poloni's misanthropic script starts to bite hard, there's still some humour to be found, while Alex Reid's (underused but making a telling mark) tough female ex-soldier is the smartest character in the film. To call this a blood for bloods sake movie like some critics have is just unfair, since some thought has gone into making it exactly not that.Bassett considerably improves from his debut horror picture, Deathwatch. But Wilderness does have problems to stop it from being a top tier British horror. There's bad decisions made with a couple of the most interesting characters and the reveal of the killer is far too soon. There's also some pacing problems that are further highlighted by some of the average acting from the lesser principals left to carry the story. However, steering us away from dwelling too long on the young bucks caught in the headlights is Kebbell, who oozes charisma as Callum, the character is in truth not fully formed (his moody past is only briefly touched upon), but Kebbell plays him smart yet dangerously feral; a leader in waiting indeed. But it's Wight's turn as a bullyboy Nazi that runs away with the film. He's as dangerous as the person hunting them down, the last person you would want to have to rely upon in a crisis. He is a vile and nasty piece of work that Bassett enjoys playing the audience's sympathies with.At times brutal and even unforgiving as a human interest piece, Wilderness is a far better survivalist horror than some would have you believe. 7/10