Storm Warning | |
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Directed by | Jamie Blanks |
Produced by | Gary Hamilton |
Written by | Everett De Roche |
Starring | Nadia Farés Robert Taylor |
Music by | Jamie Blanks |
Cinematography | Karl von Moller |
Editing by | Jamie Blanks |
Distributed by | Dimension Films The Weinstein Company Genius Products |
Release date(s) | 19 October 2007 5 February 2008 (DVD) |
Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Storm Warning is a 2007 Australian horror film directed by Urban Legend director Jamie Blanks.
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Rob and Pia, a couple who are out for a day of sailing become lost in a heavy storm and end up on a desolate island. They come across a barn with no one home. There is a large amount of marijuana in the barn suggests the homeowners may not welcome their presence. There is also no telephone or means of communication to the outside world. But when the deranged, redneck owners, Brett, Jimmy, and their even more terrifying father Poppy return, Rob and Pia realize a fear far beyond anything they have ever known, and resentful of the affluent intruders, the monstrously sadistic hillbillies imprison and enslave the couple, who fearing for their lives, submit to appalling degradation and humiliation. When Rob and Pia learn their kidnappers have no intention of ever letting them go alive, they finally understand they must do whatever it takes just to survive, and whatever it takes means going to a limit they could never have imagined.
The films pays homage to numerous other films including, but not limited to Spider Baby, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Deliverance, The Hills Have Eyes, The Last House on the Left, Straw Dogs and Wrong Turn.
The film was met with reviews such as:
Dimension Extreme released an unrated version of Storm Warning on 5 February 2008. The DVD contains an audio commentary by director Jamie Blanks, screenwriter Everett De Roche, actor Robert Taylor, cinematographer Karl von Moller, production designer Robby Perkins, and special FX artist Justin Dix, and a making-of featurette.[1] The DVD was released in Australia on 5 June 2008.[2]
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