WILDERNESS
Charging like a pack of rabid dogs is the British thriller Wilderness from director Michael J. Bassett, a part of Fantasia’s spotlight on the U.K. new wave of horror.
When a timid, habitually bullied young offender commits suicide, his fellow inmates are shipped off to a remote island as punishment. But there’s someone else on the island with ties to the deceased and he’s a wee pissed. In fact he’s made a special trip just to pay them a visit…
Being transferred from confinement to freedom roaming an uninhabited island as punishment renders the film’s initial premise somewhat hard to swallow – but it doesn’t really matter. These guys are pricks and when the hand of retribution comes, your only too happy to watch each of them being summarily dispatched by an impressive assortment of bloody means.
With no shortage of unsavory characters, and copious amounts of vengeful bloodletting, Wilderness is an uncompromising look into base human emotion, or lack thereof.
