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OUTCAST
diciembre 10, 2010
Mary y su joven hijo Fergal se mudan a una nueva casa. No tardaremos en darnos cuenta de que ellos están huyendo de algo, se esconden atemorizados de la posibilidad de que sean encontrados. Evitan hacer amigos allí donde van y de estrechar lazos con nadie. Fergal se verá atrapado entre el cariño de su bella y animada vecina y una madre agresivamente protectora de que no se detendrá ante nada para proteger a su hijo. Mary tiene reglas estrictas que gobiernan la vida de Fergal sin la cuales reinarían el caos y el terror. Su cazador se llama Cathal, un hombre peligroso cuya intención es matar a Mary y Fergal, y para ello utiliza una antigua clase de magia oscura. La única defensa de Mary es utilizar la misma clase de magia para proteger a su hijo. Cuando la gente del lugar empieza a aparecer brutalmente asesinada por una fuerza desconocida, el temor se agrava ¿Es Cathal la bestia responsable de estas matanzas o es la bestia que él trata de destruir?.
Directores
Reparto
James Nesbitt
Cathal
Kate Dickie
Mary
Thérèse Bradley
Jitta
Karen Gillan
Ally
Ciarán McMenamin
Liam
Niall Bruton
Fergal
Claire Catterson
Susan
James Cosmo
Laird
Hanna Stanbridge
Petronella
Daniel Portman
Paul
Wendy Wason
Barmaid
Ian Whyte
Beast
Josh Whitelaw
Tomatsk
Fiona O'Shaughnessy
Niamh
Christine Tremarco
Housing Officer
Equipo
Produccion:
Brendan McCarthy (Producer) — Compton Ross (Executive Producer) — John McDonnell (Producer) — Phil Hunt (Executive Producer) — Eddie Dick (Producer)
Guion:
Tom K. McCarthy (Writer) — Colm McCarthy (Writer)
Musica:
Giles Packham (Original Music Composer)
Fotografia:
Darran Tiernan (Director of Photography)
TAMBIÉN PODRÍA GUSTARTE
RESEÑAS DE LA COMUNIDAD
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John Chard
7
/10
Urban Beasts.
Outcast is directed by Colm McCarthy and he co-writes the screenplay with his brother Tom. It stars Kate Dickie, Niall Bruton, Hanna Stanbridge, James Nesbitt, Ciarán McMenamin, Josh Whitelaw, Therese Bradley and James Cosmo. Music is by Giles Packham and cinematography by Darran Tiernan.
Mary (Dickie) and her teenage son, Fergal (Bruton), are being tracked by Cathal (Nesbitt), a man using dark arts to achieve his quest. But why is he after them? Can Mary's own witchcraft skills keep them protected? And how come the Scottish housing estate that is their latest home has suddenly started suffering brutal murders?
How nice to find an independant British horror bringing something refreshing to the genre, that of the occult in a modern day housing estate - and a depressingly bleak one at that. McCarthy and his team fill out their picture to a backdrop of urban decay, with narrative splinters involving doomed love, a battle of the black arts and a beastie secret to will out.
There's no rushing going on here, pic is purposely paced slowly, the writing giving us important information in increments. We are only given partial anatomy glimpses of what is comitting the bloody carnage. The key characters have interesting stories of themselves, with two fractured family dynamics at work, while the delve into cryptic rituals and arcane magic as a weapon makes for fascinating viewing.
The big reveal of the perpretrator is something of a let down, for although we are introduced to a new looking creature, the effects work is not great - leaving us hankering for a less is more approach. But it's a minor itch, with a cast on form (does Nesbitt and Dickie even know how to be rubbish in anything anyway), and the colour filters set at social realism, Outcast is a surprise winner of a horror movie. 7/10
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