DVD Review: 'F'

In the summer apart from the weather I do really love working on the blog especially during May until early August. The reason is down to this been the time when I get the chance to post lots of great news, images and of course Trailers as there from the Uk’s best Horror Fantasy Film Festival,Frightfest. Last summer there was one movie that really caught my eye and when I was given the chance to check the movie out I could turn the chance down, Johannes Roberts debut Feature ‘F’. Continued after the break.....
Rated: 18 (UK)

Release Date: 10/01/11 (UK)

Drector: Johannes Roberts

Cast:David Schofield, Eliza Bennett , Ruth Gemmell, Juliet Aubrey


David Schofield (Pirates of The Caribbean, Valkyrie) plays troubled teacher Robert Anderson who turns to alcohol after a bloody attack from a disgrunted student. Roberts life is a mess and just seems to be sliding down the downard spiral, even his disgrunted daughter Kate (Eliza Bennett) even cant stand him, now comes the so called ‘fun part’ of the movie.

F is a bad, bad movie  when it could have simply been a movie with lots of potiental. F’s concept & Story felt like someone had ripped it apart and then decideded to attempt to piece the script together and made a even bigger mess. Characterisation is so bad that Robert & Kate’s relationship is the closest to any type developed characters though that was lacklustre and its takes half of the movie to realise that the pair are related.

This is a Hoodie Horror which at first actually does its job by building  that tension creating a claustophobic pyschological chiller that crumbles in front of us after the brutal deaths coming very forgettable. So where do these nameless hoodie beast come from? Was this movie a revenge one? Looking back at the evidence we can assume it was, But who where the culpritsyou can paste together the disgrunted student who attacked Robert Anderson at the start of the movie is responsible. But you need to be pyschic to guess as were given no evidence, so when the movie ends your left as confused as the Australian cricket Captain on why the pommes won the Test so easily.

Looking at F Roberts tries to makethe movie into some sort of social commertary highlighting the past few years problems with irate students, even Hoodies brutally attacking other students and teachers (especially). There’s so much red tape and beaucracy that many victims (teachers) are been treated like the guilty party simply due to them doing there jobs and some fatcat scared of irate parents and loosing there finance.

There was a few jumpy moments, as well as the odd gory moment in the movie but sadly turning into forgettable dross which could have been better. The movie had fantastic potential Which Johannes Robert decided not to grab the bull by the horns to make full use of the potential but what we got was forgettable movie which had a  a few scary moments but more unexplained points that made movie that would have Mulder and Scully very jealous, the truth is out there but its sadly not in F.

Movie Rating: 1/5

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