A new watch for me of GALLOWS HILL (2013, aka THE DAMNED, aka HOUSE ON GALLOWS HILL), a tale of demonic possession with the novelty of being filmed on location in Bogota, Colombia. The story sees an American and his fiancee travelling cross-country with some family members and friends only to get caught out by flooding and forced to take a rural route. After a car accident the group stay at a closed hotel inhabited by an old man who keeps a young girl chained up in his basement. Wrongly believing him to be a paedophile, they free the girl only to get a nasty surprise...
Despite the novelty of the South American filming location this is another stock and routine story with dark and dreary cinematography; most of it is filmed in the dark so the exoticism is wasted. It's one of those stories with paper-thin characters and familiar actors (Peter Facinelli, Sophia Myles) wasted in predictable 'demon' scenes of overacting and possession. Some gore and horror along the way, but I found it all very passe and unappealing, not helped by the tiny scale and low budget of the production.
Despite the novelty of the South American filming location this is another stock and routine story with dark and dreary cinematography; most of it is filmed in the dark so the exoticism is wasted. It's one of those stories with paper-thin characters and familiar actors (Peter Facinelli, Sophia Myles) wasted in predictable 'demon' scenes of overacting and possession. Some gore and horror along the way, but I found it all very passe and unappealing, not helped by the tiny scale and low budget of the production.