The
Barge People
2018
Director- Charlie Steeds
Cast- Kate Davies-Speak,
Mark McKirdy, Makenna Guyler, Natalie Martins, Matt Swales, Kane Surry, Emma
Spurgin Hussey, Tim Cartwright, Carl Andersson, David Lenik, Barrington De La
Roche, Sam Lane, Harrison Nash
Two
young British couples decide to take a (romantic?) cruise down a canal way
aboard a barge. Well one and a half couples. The other member is a super
annoying prick who is going along to please his girlfriend and spends his time
acting like a jerk. I have to say, the whole recreational barge thing was a new
one on me.
Anyway,
while traveling down the waterway, they run afoul of a young redneck family (or
whatever the British version of rednecks is).
The rednecks are about to have their violent way with the couples when
an even worse menace appears; The Barge People!
They are
a family of amphibian fish-men that live on the waterway. They kidnap people
and eat them, preferably alive. But these aren’t the primordial Creatures from
the Black Lagoon. They wear clothes and speak and have a sadistic streak, preferring
to enjoy their victim’s fear.
This
movie is a hodgepodge of ideas that somehow work together. The piscean nature
of the monsters gives them a Lovecraftian, Shadow over Innsmouth, feel and
their cannibalistic sadism conjures up The Hills Have Eyes. Of course the
attraction, as with any monster movie, is the monsters themselves. The effects
are good old fashion practical make up and they look great. And we get to see a
lot of them! None of that hiding in the shadows stuff!
An
original, entertaining film.
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