Preservation

A watchable forest survival. Nice setting, summer atmosphere, moody score. I would reach for the 3*, even if the characters’ behaviour becomes increasingly stupid with time (they all could’ve killed each other like a hundred times, but the film would have ended too soon). But, on top of that, it clearly rips-off scenes from similar movies, in particular Eden Lake, without bringing anything new, like nothing at all of its own, to turn a blind eye to that. It’s enough that it’s already an unoriginal and uncreative, modern commercial horror flick, but please, don’t ruin the indie scene with this kind of decadence. (2015.01.09)

One good scene unfortunately doesn't make a great movie, and while watching Preservation, you'll feel like you're watching something that takes the basic rule of survival genre, and... that's pretty much it. It doesn't bring anything new to the table at all. You're just watching what you could have watched many times before. In this regard, Eden Lake is definitely better and much more intense, which has a similar starting point but manages to have an incredibly strong impact on you. (2016.09.29)