Film Brain takes a haunting walk on the chilly Yorkshire moors in this eerie horror film, that is the final film credit of beloved actor Bernard Hill.
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00:00To quote another horror film, keep off the moors, stick to the roads.
00:03That's what Sophia the Portisher done in this horror movie,
00:06where she accompanies the father of a murdered childhood friend to try and find his body,
00:11but the land holds terrifying secrets.
00:14As you'd expect, the film makes a lot of use out of its eerie and misty central location,
00:18where it's easy to get lost in the featureless landscape filled with hidden dangers,
00:22but it also serves as a metaphor for the guilt and paranoia of the main characters.
00:27The performances in the cast of Most of the Unknowns is generally solid,
00:30but the movie is also notable for being the final film credit of Bernard Hill,
00:34who plays the inspector who worked on the original case,
00:38who brings a welcome integrity to his brief appearance.
00:41It's a promising feature debut for Chris Cronin,
00:43but I found this more haunting and unsettling than outright frightening.
00:47There are some good scares in the final 20 minutes,
00:49but it takes an awfully long time to get to them because the film's excessively baggy pacing.
00:54It would have bare fit for being massively tightened up,
00:56and I found myself thinking that less really is more.