Wilderness

2006
Dir. Michael Bassett
After the suicide of one of their dorm-mates, a group of juvenile delinquents are sent to a remote island off the coast of Scotland for some character/team-building exercises. Once there, the wardens are viciously slaughtered by a mysterious assailant commanding a pack of fierce hunting dogs. The young offenders must work together to stay alive and find a way off the island before they too fall prey to the stealthy stalker.
A grim prologue unspools in the young offenders’ centre where we are introduced to the eclectic bunch of mainly unsavoury sorts. The use of young offenders as main characters adds a dark and interesting element to the mix and the prologue expertly introduces us to the volatile, unhinged and aggressive young men.
Once the story moves to the island location, it navigates into very familiar Slasher movie territory, and utilises an abundance of that genre’s conventions - right down to the use of a killer extracting revenge for a past misdeed,…
Dir. Michael Bassett
After the suicide of one of their dorm-mates, a group of juvenile delinquents are sent to a remote island off the coast of Scotland for some character/team-building exercises. Once there, the wardens are viciously slaughtered by a mysterious assailant commanding a pack of fierce hunting dogs. The young offenders must work together to stay alive and find a way off the island before they too fall prey to the stealthy stalker.
A grim prologue unspools in the young offenders’ centre where we are introduced to the eclectic bunch of mainly unsavoury sorts. The use of young offenders as main characters adds a dark and interesting element to the mix and the prologue expertly introduces us to the volatile, unhinged and aggressive young men.
Once the story moves to the island location, it navigates into very familiar Slasher movie territory, and utilises an abundance of that genre’s conventions - right down to the use of a killer extracting revenge for a past misdeed,…