OUTCAST IS OUT NOW ON UK DVD
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New UK realist horror OUTCAST hits DVD today. Forget the comparisons with Let The Right One In. Although both films share a need to place the horror genre in places where people actually live and work, as opposed to gothic castles or grim torture dungeons, the two films swerve wildly apart in their tone and story. Outcast may surprise you. Here is a UK horror that reflects our country and the grim realities of life for many of us. Watching the film and remembering the ugly sinkhole estates of my own home town, I’m moved to wonder about the nature of horror. Yes, when a mythic, ancient evil comes to the housing blocks and cul-de-sacs of the films chief locations, the implications of this force of nature unleashed to maim and kill are horrific… But life in modern Britain in some of the UK’s poorest neighbourhoods can also be pretty terrifying.
Thanks to the filmmakers behind OUTCAST, this contrast between the grim housing scheme reality of recent UK movie RED ROAD (which shares a cast member in Kate Dickie) and the kind of Paganistic horror you’d find in a film like The Wickerman or Blood on Satan’s Claw are married with surprising ease…
Now, enjoy this playlist of clips from the movie. Watch out in particular for the one I titled “Lost Forever”, it’s a textbook example of how to instill the cinematic creeps in an audience with any need for blood or violence, just a few, well chosen words, plus, there’s also plenty of clips featuring Karen Gillan for all the DOCTOR WHO fans out there…
