Writers Retreat: Good English horror, has the feel of the 70's about it. A Writers Workshop on an isolated island joined to the mainland by a causeway which is only above water for a few hours twice a day. A bunch of misfits, even the professional writers - one of the has writer's block and lives in the shadow of her Booker Prize winning father. The amateurs include an old soldier with his war tales, an unstable guy with a chip on his soldier and a self-harming woman who has her own dark secrets. When one of the group disappears there are plenty of suspects, among the writers together with a surly taxi driver and a local yokel. The tension rises as does the death toll. Some really creepy scenes of torture and violence as stabbings,shootings and smotherings proceed. It also has a Occult feel to it as dead and skinned animals seem to be strung from branches throughout the island. Good fusion of the Slasher/Whodunnit Tropes. Directed by Diego Garcia from a screenplay by Jeremy Sheldon & C.M. Taylor. On contv. 7/10.
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