Detour (2009)

Detour would be a very good horror movie if it would not suggest typical American horror concept. For any horror movie fan it is obvious mix of few, well known titles. For me the suggestion goes to Texas Chainsaw and Hills have eyes. It is Norwegian-Swedish language movie, with good cast and quality production. Unlike most of the Scandinavian horror movies which are slow, this one is fast and tense, but very predictable. The plot have those well known elements which are typical: scary night, abandoned gas house with bunch of abandoned cars, turning to the nowhere road, abandoned mansion, crazy family, torture with recording, helping policeman turning to be a bad guy, victim running through wood... There is a lot of flaws, but in general it is not so bad, as many horror movies today seems to copy each other or strongly lay on some of the famous titles. What disappoints me is the elimination of bad guys that looked too easy, and all of the positive characters stayed alive (even we like them), except one fellow who acts as a collateral here. So, nothing smart or new here, too predictable, yet more fast than typical Scandinavian horror.

It's actually harder finding this movie with its English title (Detour), then finding the hiding place of Santa Clause. Seriously though, this little slasher movie is pretty decent. It's straight from beginning to finish and delivers on its premise. Of course you have to suspend your disbelieve here and there, but then again there's almost no movie out there, who doesn't ask that from you.What I liked, was the fact, that it stayed true to its premise and was mean and lean. Not too much and not too little. You know what you are letting yourself into, when you rent/watch this movie. It's low budget and has quite a few flaws of course. It's up to you, if you like those movies or not ... if you do, give it a try!

Snarvein is a new horror movie that also includes the Wilhelm scream. The Wilhelm Scream was created by Sheb Wooley in 1951. Sheb Wooley was an actor that played the character Pete in Rawhide. George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Quentin Tarantino use the wilhelm scream all the time in their movies. Other movies that have the Wilhelm Scream are Under the Tuscan Sun, Date Movie, Willow, Texas, Bolt, Dragonball evolution, Tooth Fairy, Once Upon A Time in Mexico, Street Fighter, Star Trek the Motion Picture, Over Her Dead Body, Wrong Turn 3 left for Dead, The Mist, Flushed Away, History of the World Part 1, Meet the Spartans, Watchmen, Time Machine, Howard the Duck and The Green Berets. Plo keywords, Horror, Wilhelm Sercream thriller.

Sondre Larsen, a Norwegian television-star, lends his face to this very poor horror effort. I would not recommend this movie, based solely on the fact that it brings nothing impressive to the table.It is just pure boredom, pure noise and pure crap. What I mean by noise, is that the main character in the movie is loud and annoying music stings, paired with noisy sounds of people crashing into things. Sure, you jump out of your chair when a shadow moves in front of the camera, and the music shrieks, but haven't we seen that in every thriller or horror flick? I jump out of my chair when my friend sitting next to me in the theater goes "boo!", but does make him a genius? No, but, in his defense, that was the scariest part of the movie.It fails in the horror-department, but that's not all. The script didn't do it for me. Every single plot-twist is completely predictable, and the movie fails to impress me with all of its symbolism, both religious and otherwise. Mikkel Gaup, a far better Norwegian actor, appears in an extremely forced and ridiculous cameo, that was obviously shoehorned in simply because they had a chance.That's about enough for me to give this bad-boy one out of ten stars. I hated this movie.