White Settlers (2015)
Young urban couple Ed and Sarah are set to begin a new life when they move from London into an isolated borders Scottish farmhouse. After falling in love with the 19th century Castle Farm and seeing its potential as a fixer-upper they are anxious to get started on the renovations. In bed on their first night Sarah thinks she can hear noises in the darkness but Ed is disbelieving saying it’s her imagination playing tricks. Persisting in her fear they are not alone in the house, she forces Ed to investigate. When he doesn’t return after a scarily long period, she goes downstairs to investigate only to be confronted by a welcoming committee of masked intruders. As she desperately searches for Ed, a terrifying game of cat and mouse ensues with the mysterious assailants. But what do they want and what horrors do they have planned for the two newcomers?
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A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.
Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
It wasn't the best movie ive ever seen but it wasnt that bad. People complain about the end but that can be left for your own thoughts. Acting wasnt bad at all.
First of all, there is nothing original or exciting about this film, it starts out decently, but is extremely obvious what is going to happen next after the first couple of minutes. You can already see the events before they have happened, which is always a sign of unwitty film-making. The couple is not really likeable, so it is hard to feel any suspense or thrill while they are getting chased by the crazy scottish folk. The film really is an over exagaration of the hate between these two nations, i do not believe people would be ready to kill just to get a newly moved in couple of an abandoned house up for sale, seems a bit too daft. What it comes down to is just a normal chase movie, where the main characters try to escape and fight off the bad guys, nothing original, do not recommend this movie, although it had some great views and a couple of ok moments it is still not worth watching overall as it is quite boring, regardless of the relatively short runtime!
Four stars for the beginning which has suspense. Then as soon as the pig men arrive it heads downhill and finishes with a ridiculous ending.So: the Scots hate the English so much they want to stop them buying farms. That's clear.But, the couple murder one of the pig men and probably maim another one, yet no action is taken.The couple are bound up and dropped in Altrincham, England. So am I to take it that the couple can't go to the Scottish police because they're English? Perhaps this is set after some form of Scottish independence?They bought the house and farm buildings. So suddenly they no longer own them just because they've been dropped (by force) back in England?There is no explanation (apart from the implied hatred of the English) as to why the pig men are doing what they are doing. A boss is referred to, but that's left completely unexplained. Who is the boss? The First Minister? A local major landowner? The Queen?This could have been so much more, but it's almost as if someone started writing this, got tired of it, and gave it to someone incompetent to finish it.
The movie is a straightforward, unimaginative but slightly suspenseful home invasions thriller. I was wondering why the bad guys were doing what they were doing (I knew nothing about the movie going in, not even the tag line). Wondering right up to the ridiculous ending. I was left wondering how the perpetrators in this story thought they would ever in a million years get away with it. Once the police find the guy with the sliced up face or the one who's face was bashed in they're all done for.