The Barrens (2012)
True Blood's Stephen Moyer (Here speaking with his normal English accent which surprised me as i'd forgotten he was British) and Mia Kirshner, star in this film about a family on a camping trip in the forests of New Jersey. Before long Moyer suspects they are being stalked by the legendary Jersey Devil.
As a whole The Barrens is pretty good. A gripping final half hour makes up for an extremely slow opening. Although slow the film is never boring which is probably testament to Moyer's acting rather than anything else the script has to offer. The film has a nice wicked witchery back story about a woman cast out from her village with her 13th child who she offers up as a sacrifice to the devil, but the rest is mainly the family bickering and going about their mundane camping holiday until Moyer is suspected of contracting rabies.
It's not until the climax that Saw director Darren Lynn Bousman lets things run riot and the film's early promise comes to the fore with a suspenseful finale.
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