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Movie review - Charlie’s Farm

24/10/2016

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Charlie’s Farm is a 2014 Australian horror film, starring American actress Tara Reid. It concerns a group of four friends that decides to go out on a trip, to investigate an isolated farm, on which supposedly lives Charlie, the violent and ferocious cannibalistic killer, that grew all by himself in the vast desolation of the completely abandoned farm – that belonged to his parents –, after they were killed by locals, who discovered their vicious and sadistic rampage of kidnapping, murdering and cannibalizing innocent farm laborers. Assuming this to be folklore, and all part of a local legend, thinking little of it to be true, despite being warned, the four friends decide to spend a couple of days in the abandoned farm, only to be victimized by the atrocious and violent murderer. 
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This is a movie with as much as positive as well as much as negative aspects, although the positive ones, somewhat, in the end, seems able to overcome its overall misdemeanors. One of its major problems is the pace of the movie, being incredibly slow. Only after forty minutes the group finally arrives at their destination, and the horror begins at one hour of movie. And when it begins, the excessive and explicit amount of violence it ensues is far too heavy to tolerate, even for a horror movie. Nonetheless, the movie has its remarkable features, like a cohesive and realistic plot, believable background elements, coherent unfolding of the events, well-structured story and good acting, to say the least, which makes it very difficult to evaluate, being so good, and so bad, at the same time. 

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Well, the movie is watchable, that is for sure. If you feel patient, and really appreciates a story being told in a very calm, slow manner, with no hurry, and don’t mind turning your head a little bit when the blood (and skull fragments, and many other body parts) starts to spill, you will like this movie. It is remarkably well done, has the 3 C’s (Cohesion, Coherence and Consistence), which is vital for a good plot, and, unlike many other horror movies, comes with a somewhat painstaking degree of audacity, since none of the characters survives the horrible ordeal, which is a rare feature, very hard to find in horror movies these days.

Yes, definitely this movie has it all to be a good entertainment, since – by a very thin margin – its positive points, in a certain way, can redeem a little its flaws. It’s a very nice horror piece, with potential to become, one day, a cult classic. Definitely, it deserves three and a half stars, out of five.             


​Wagner

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