The most common comparison I've seen while anticipating this films release has been Pet Semetary and while that's not way off base I think this bad boy is in a different league.
We start on Alice's birthday, her parents are showering her with gifts and confetti before she walks to school. Somewhere along the way the little girl decides it's a good idea to give a rather savage looking dog in a cage a piece of lunch meat from her sandwich. She opens the cage and it leads to one of the more gnarly on-screen child deaths in recent memory.
Enter grieving couple driving down a foggy, very Irish countryside road to their new town of residence, Wake Wood, where Louise is the new town pharmacist and Patrick is the new veterinarian. Right off you get the vibe that things are not right. There is some freaky shit going on with the residents that I won't really explain because it's most fun to go into this film without a complete knowledge of what it's all about. I think it kinda sucks I went in knowing what I knew and hell, I guess I kind of spoiled it for you too in a way. But hey, this is a creepy, well filmed chiller that isn't short on the gore (not in a cheesy, slasher way) and despite it's similarities to earlier mentioned film, is very original and it did freak me the fuck out at some points..
No complaints, this delivered everything I ask of a horror film. It lacks all that I despise from the modern day bullshit we're churning out. Thanks Ireland.
5/5
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