Primal Rage
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A newly reunited young couple's drive through the Pacific Northwest turns into a nightmare as they are forced to face nature, unsavory locals, and a monstrous creature, known to the Native Americans as Oh-Mah.
Primal Rage is kinda alright. The movie's well shot, the forest looks gloomy and the monster has a very cool design. The main two protagonists are likeable and we feel for them, especially the lovely blonde. The fact that the guy was freshly released from jail after a year as a convict is interesting too. Not the usual blend young couple.
Then there's a background to the monster, its origins and stuff. And it's also a nice aspect of the creature to see it as not just a typical dumb sasquatch but as an intelligent specie, which can think, hunt and even use weapons or protect itself with an armor.
So what went wrong? I guess that when the young heroes in distress cross the path a group of dumb redneck hunters, the movie's pace get slower and all the sequences featuring the idiotic guys are wasted by awful dialogues and very bad performances. I lost the interest at that point.
Then something happens to relaunch the story and Primal Rage has a chance to be gripping again. But once again, another missed opportunity...
many of the scenes are way too long! There's a ceremony sequence that occurs at one point involving the blonde girl but it stretches itself until the moment where you're losing your attention.
Finally, the director Patrick Magee wakes up and gives us a nice fight moment that reminds of the Predator Vs Dutch scene in McTiernan's masterpiece. It's cool and well done...but it happens kind of too late. And the very ending sucks like in too many horror movies nowadays.
But overall, Primal Rage ain't that bad at all. Cool performances from Casey Gagliardi and Andrew Montgomery , a great creature and lots of gore. That's an okay horror flick which have been edited way better and faster in order to become a little gem.