2005 Toronto Film Festival Report This 2005 Irish Horror film is written and directed by a "Billy O'Brien".
The Programmer, Colin Geddes, nor anyone from the cast or crew is at the screening. Not a good sign. (Found out later that the Directors wife was giving birth!!) Plot Outline: On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
Well there is nothing wrong with a good monster/Alien film once and awhile. Unfortunately this is not one of them. It is likely the first film ever that can make the claim to showing not once, not twice, but three times in the first fifteen minutes a cow having a hand being put up its ass. To be fair to the director Billy O'Brien, (who also wrote this piece of art) the opening is moody at times. You are trying to figure out what the heck is going on. The set-up takes forever to get going, and the yet the ending seems rushed. Lions Gate International has picked up the rights so we may see it on a screen at some point. There is no humor here what so ever. There is a low scare count, the "thing" is small and seemed just fine playing with cows. Is it horrible, no. Kind of wish it was to be honest, it might have been a little more fun that way. The crowd was small, and not reacting much at all. There was no one there to blame at the end of the screening. Hey, just discovered the original name of the film, (The Calf). D!oh, and this was one of the best Midnight Madness films of the year? Come on Colin! Where the hell is the new "Tony Jaa" Film "Tom yum goong" ? Now that would have been some Madness Baby.
Rating = C-
The Programmer, Colin Geddes, nor anyone from the cast or crew is at the screening. Not a good sign. (Found out later that the Directors wife was giving birth!!) Plot Outline: On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
Well there is nothing wrong with a good monster/Alien film once and awhile. Unfortunately this is not one of them. It is likely the first film ever that can make the claim to showing not once, not twice, but three times in the first fifteen minutes a cow having a hand being put up its ass. To be fair to the director Billy O'Brien, (who also wrote this piece of art) the opening is moody at times. You are trying to figure out what the heck is going on. The set-up takes forever to get going, and the yet the ending seems rushed. Lions Gate International has picked up the rights so we may see it on a screen at some point. There is no humor here what so ever. There is a low scare count, the "thing" is small and seemed just fine playing with cows. Is it horrible, no. Kind of wish it was to be honest, it might have been a little more fun that way. The crowd was small, and not reacting much at all. There was no one there to blame at the end of the screening. Hey, just discovered the original name of the film, (The Calf). D!oh, and this was one of the best Midnight Madness films of the year? Come on Colin! Where the hell is the new "Tony Jaa" Film "Tom yum goong" ? Now that would have been some Madness Baby.
Rating = C-