Now before i start i must say that I bore no grudge towards anyone or anything to do with this film before I endured it! .So where do i begin i randomly choose a film to watch one night and unluckily the hand of fate fancied giving me a dry slap because it was a film called Elfie Hopkins. Elfie Hopkins is a black comedy, horror, thriller about a teenager and her male mate Parker getting stoned and wanting to be detectives. Elfies main desire to be a gum shoe is due to the accidental death of her mother when she was younger and Parkers desire to be a detective is just because he Fancy's Elfie YAWN. So anyway new family arrives people start disappearing and as you can imagine its all very predictable. Jaime Winstone is just plain annoying with all her face pulling and trying to copy her dads mannerisms in the main role and most of the acting is done with little to no enthusiasm or conviction its like the actors didn't even be-leave that this project was any good so did not bother to act. Ray Winstone turns up as the local butcher on two occasions making the film almost credible but as soon as his 4 minutes are over you remember that your watching a unimaginative piece of dry rot. The film plods on with the introduction of Elfies feuding posh neighbors and it all just seems so pointless it almost hurts, the ending is so transparent from the beginning I thought to myself well maybe the characters and twists are going to be good but I was wrong there are no twists and the characters are painfully stereotypical. With a running time of only 89 minutes I figured at least it will all be over soon but no it felt like I was watching it for 3 hours I have always prided myself on never giving up on a film and turning it off but I came very close with this one. I am sure the director Ryan Andrews may of thought he was making a quirky Black comedy with a great sense of teen angst combined with humor but this is not the case. The humor is near non existent the horror elements are dire the directing shows no charisma or personality at all. Its a paint by numbers story with poor direction from start to finish. SPOILER ALERT ha ha as if you can spoil this movie by revealing and plot twists because their is none the whole film is pointless crap made to keep Ray Winstones daughter in a job do yourself a favor don't watch this crap and if you are tempted don't say i did not warn you this film is drivel.
Review of Elfie Hopkins: Cannibal Hunter
