I hired out this film just for curiosity and found it to be quite intresting. While it runs along the lines of being a war film, the horror side is good too but could do with a little more work. Set in the first word war in France, a group of men stranded after an overnight battle of hell come across a abandoned german trence with a few germans in it. They shoot the germans except one which they take hostage who seemes very hysterical. The film brings to life the conditions of what those men had to endure, about the rats and the mustard gas.
My grandfather fought in the Somme and some of the stories he told me is enough to make your hair stand on end, the rats made a tasty meal for empty bellies so I am told.
The film is rather dark in places, and can be a bit gory, as with the barbed wire which wrapped itself around one of the men before cutting him to pieces. Everyone of tyhose men except Charlie Shakesphere meets up with a nasty end, all the men start to turn on each other because they don't understand what is going on.
It would be nice if there was a sequal, say in the second world war or something like that. I write scripts and I would love to write something like this. :)
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Production Year: 2002 - Thriller - Director: Bharat Nalluri, Rob Bailey, Andy Wilson - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, David Oyelowo, Peter Firth, Jenny Agutter, Lisa Faulkner
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