Gnaw

2008 "Nice to have your friends for dinner..."
3.4| 1h30m| en| More Info
Released: 31 October 2009 Released
Producted By: Straightwire Films
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Official Website: http://www.gnaw-movie.com/
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In this dark, tongue in cheek, British Horror, six friends take a holiday in the heart of the English countryside which turns into a culinary nightmare when they discover that their hosts are a sadistic family of cannibals, set on turning their guests into their next meal! It's nice to have your friends for dinner

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Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place
Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
BA_Harrison A cannibalistic mother (Carrie Cohen) and her son (Gary Faulkner) feed on holidaymakers who rent their farmhouse (located in the only part of the UK still without mobile phone coverage), clearly not deterred by the fact that most people usually tell someone where they are going, and that—if logic were to play any part in this movie—it would only be a matter of time before the police came a calling.Having conveniently ignored logic, the makers of Gnaw also turn a blind eye to originality: I've seen more creativity from a photocopier, the film employing every tired slasher cliché imaginable. Hell, it even shamelessly rips off the Halloween theme and borrows the 'ki ki ki, ma, ma, ma' sound effect from Friday the 13th.None of this would be such a big issue if only director Gregory Mandry actually managed to deliver either effective scares or creative deaths, but because everything in his film is so predictable, genuine frights are in short supply, and to keep his budget down, nearly all of the kills occur off-screen. Most of the 'gore' consists of minced beef drowned in fake blood, although there are one or two severed body parts on show towards the end. That other staple of the slasher genre, nudity, is limited to one pair of bare, bloody breasts, courtesy of Julia Vandoorne.
kittenkongshow One thing I shouldn't do before watching a film is read the reviews on here.I wonder if some of the slating is due to the early reviews being fake ones probably cast/crew.So the film...It's really a Brit Low Budget run through Texas Chainsaw with the added food factor, It's not badly done and runs nicely through the Horror film clichés that we all know and love.It's a short film (without credits around 65m) so it doesn't outstay it's welcome (although the scenes of the people getting there are in need of an edit) - Take it as a homage to TCM and such like and you can except the fact it isn't original.It's another one I got from a pound shop and it was worth the money.
dschmeding OK, first of all I have to jump in and support the thesis that a huge bunch of comments in this thread are fake or promotional. Gnaw is by all means a below average horror movie that is so damn full of clichés and at times funny in a definitely unintended way. The plot is already paper thin considering we are talking about a movie thats basic idea is a bunch of kids arriving in a house at the countryside that turns out to be inhabited by cannibals. There is not much gore here for a 2009 horror movie and many scenes are pointless to ridiculous like when a guy is strapped to a table and has his tongue removed with pliers while a girl is watching it through a window. This scene is the essence of uninspired and badly edited horror even ending in her bumping in a bucket and alarming the evil cannibal.I will give the movie that the cinematography is pretty good and visually it delivers what it can't on the story, suspense or gore side. A really large part of the movie works with no dialog at all and considering its so clichéd and lacking any suspense or surprise that sure is a bad idea. The movie doesn't look but surely feels like a film school project gone wrong so don't bother wasting your time on a uninspired and pointless ten thousandth take on the "Cannibal Weirdos in the last house on the right" premise.
nj_mcintyre Crickey! this has totally put me off booking a holiday cottage... for good.Sh*t you're pants scary. I can understand that people may find it disturbing and that it is very twisted in many ways but this a genuinely terrifying film and my opinion great fun to watch.You know you are watching a good film when you feel shudders run down your spine, you know your watching a good film when you look around the house to check if someone's there, you know you are watching a good film when you feel so involved in the film's element and you can't escape from it! I just hope there is a sequel soon. It's strangely addictive being petrified, the team behind Gnaw have certainly pulled out all the stops here. Fantastic.

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