An Exercise In Nonsense

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Primal is a horror film from Australia directed by Josh Reed.The plot: Anja, Mel, Dace, Kris, Warren and Chad are six people on vacation and they enter the forest where the prehistoric painting is located as well as study it ... But the nightmare comes .. Mel's mysterious illness turned into a bloodthirsty mutant. One by one of them die .. Only Anja who still survive Will He succeed Congratulations ??? Review: the movie is quite tension .. Quite a lot of gore scenes disgusting ... Acting is pretty good from the cast in this movie .....

The Horror genre, as underrated as it might be, has several sub-genres that us Horror freaks know how to recognize and differentiate. "Primal" is a well made and nicely assembled combination of the virus/plague sub genre (like Cabin Fever) and various werewolves films. It uses just the right amount of motives and aspects of each of these sub-genres, and remains realistic and scary enough to be very enjoyable as a Horror film.The screenplay is good, with a clever script (and some very amusing dialogues giving us a nice, if short, occasional comic relief), the characters are reasonably realistic, and the make-up/effects department sure has done its homework.I must say the ending lacked, as is the case with many Horror films. "Primal" could have used a more elaborate one, better explaining the weird occurrences of the final 15 minutes so they don't appear to be coming out of the blue and almost forced.All in all, "Primal" isn't a masterpiece, but is a good and enjoyable film, and I'd recommend it to any Horror fan.

I just saw this movie on syfy... even with the parts edited for content this is still arguably the worst movie ever. It goes from archaeological expedition flick to zombie movie to Japanese tentacle rape... seriously pick a genre and go with it will you? Is this how Aussies deal with threats now that their government has taken away their guns? big f*cking rocks and torches? I guess the socialists won huh? You've reduced yourselves to cavemen with cars and cable TV... good job. This movie would have been over in about 30 seconds if it took place in America. Oh look shes crazy and she bit me *bang* problem solved. But instead I had to put up with 2 hours of screaming over the simplest things and inaction when action is the only logical response to the stimuli... Girl running with machete and gets caught by 2 "zombies" don't get off your ass and help just sit there and tell her to run... uh yeah that's gonna solve the problem. I guess the commie government took your testicles too.

Yup, because we haven't seen that like a million times since "Night of the Living Dead"! Six Australian students go to a lost cave where there are some cave paintings painted by some guy just before he got killed by a fellow caveman. And apparently, there is something in the water that mutates people into savage killing things that are serving some kind of host creature in the cave that apparently doesn't mind waiting a few thousand years for a host or something.So we watch as characters are either turned or killed by the ones who were, as we get over the top scenes using the less than prime cuts from a butcher's shop somewhere.I give the movie a bit of credit for the uninfected characters arguing over who is going to kill the infected ones or if they should kill them. But the whole scenario is so contrived it was laughable- like insects that eat through tire rubber on an SUV. Really? Wow, that was convenient.I think there was supposed to be some kind of sub-plot with the cave painting, but not really. They didn't go with it or they lost it in editing.