Alicia I love this movie so much

TinsHeadline Touches You

Wordiezett So much average

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

pigdogg I liked this film. Decent production quality and acting for the budget level. Lake Bell is a natural beauty and a joy to behold every time she is on the screen. The tension is well built and the story progresses at an engaging pace. The action and violence is handled reasonable well if perhaps not entirely expertly. Overall a well done and entertaining effort. *** SPOILERS *** Elements of the plot suggest a distorted moral sensibility or perhaps a screen writer with psychological issues : One of the three female characters is physically engaging one of the men while the group drinks around the camp fire. Touching him flirting with him, overtly verbally expressing her attraction for him while she caresses him in front of the group. This is a man she only met hours earlier. He is reluctant and repeatedly disengages her physical advances. It appears he would prefer to speak to a different woman sitting in front of the fire. The flirtatious woman seems to reach a point of frustration since her advances are not reciprocated so she goes to the woods for a bathroom break shall we say and she lures the man she is interested in to come join her. He does. She kisses him passionately and so he asks if she wants to "have fun". In the context of the scene the invitation is for sex. She agrees. They are lying on the ground, both breathing hard and apparently sex hormones now raging at high levels in both, removing clothing. Suddenly she decides she no longer wants to have sex and she murders the man by crashing a sharp rock into the side of his skull.Now as a viewer it is clear that this woman is emotionally unstable and she has just gone insane and killed a man she doesn't even know. A man she enticed to have sex in the woods. She spuriously and with little warning changed her mind about having sex and kills this poor guy.I believe that the audience is supposed to side with the woman because there was a point in time where she appeared to change her mind. Any judge or prosecutor viewing the exact same footage would clearly convict her of entrapment / murder but the viewer I believe is supposed to see it as an attempted rape.In a sense this one scene, given that it is the pivotal scene of the film, is disastrously misguided. The screen writer should have made it a clear case of attempted rape so that the viewer would side with the woman as a potential victim rather than an obvious criminal psychotic. The women then proceed to murder the other two men and escape to freedom by stealing the dead men's boat. The film was quite good. I enjoyed watching it, but the women in the story were not the valiant women defending themselves against a trio of evil men they were unstable violent criminals plain and simple. I suspect the woman who wrote the screen play, Katie Aselton, sees it differently. This is a sad comment on how women view the world they live in and their place in it, but such is the state of humanity.

Michael Ledo Sarah (Kate Bosworth) has an idea to spend time with her girlfriends camping on a remote island. Abby (Katie Aselton) and Louise (Lake Bell) have old boyfriend issues they need to still come to terms with. While on the island they bump into some hunters/poachers, three guys recently dishonorably discharged from the military. They hit it off fine, especially Abby and Henry (Will Bouvier) until tragedy strikes and the film takes on Rambettes vs seasoned killers with guns.I thought I would never get tired on these type of films, but I believe I have reached my saturation limit. The film is typical of the genre except the hunters lacked the personality to make this short film entertaining. Alex (Anslem Richardson) was a confusing character, poorly scripted. The theme is that we all do things that apologies don't mend, and centers around Abby who was wronged. Later Abbey tries to change how people feel through an apology. Might make for a rental if you like this type of film. Not the best of its kind.Parental Guide: F-bomb, attempted rape, nudity (Katie Aselton, Lake Bell)

Coventry "Black Rock" is a forgettable, derivative and largely insignificant little piece of survival horror/thriller, but it's not entirely hopeless and definitely better than most of my fellow reviewers around here claim it to be. Some of the things I read were undeservedly harsh and overly mean, especially taken into consideration that the film is never boring and contains at least a few good aspects (like adequate performances and one or two surprise twists). The basic plot is formulaic as can be, with a trio of girlfriends heading out to the island where they spent their childhood vacations together. But the times and their lives have changed tremendously, since Sarah – the blonde – attempts to resuscitate the friendship between Abby and Lou, as Lou slept with Abby's fiancée a few years ago. They run into three much younger hunters on the island, and Abby desperately feels the need to prove that she can still seduce boys. The evening ends with attempted rape and the accidental death of one of the hunters, but the remaining two want vengeance. "Black Rock" is the love-child of married couple Mark Duplass and Katie Aselton. He wrote and produced the film, while she directs and depicts one of the lead characters. Isn't that romantic? The good news is that the female characters are identifiable and realistic. They're whiny and pretty insufferable most of the time, but at least they aren't your everyday slasher stereotypes. The hunters are supposedly former Iraq soldiers, dishonorably discharged atop, but don't expect them to be mentally disturbing psychos like the Vietnam veterans in exploitation movies from the 70's. They're rather dull and spineless weaklings that can't even ambush a couple of quarreling city chicks. The film doesn't make optimal use of its remote island location and the violence is disappointingly tame. On the other hand I have to admit that, contrary to other films of its type, the deaths come as a surprise and the final shot is marvelously atmospheric.

Ellen Ripley I literally just created an account so I could review this film. I am floored by the very notion that it received, as of right now, a 4.7 on this site. Are you serious? 'Oz the Great and Powerful' got 6.5 for pete's sakes. Have you seen that tripe? Unbelievable.These women aren't special, that's the point. They aren't strong, they have no means to fight back, they're believably terrified of the situation. If you're waiting for them to retaliate against their attackers with a slew of clever traps, you may prefer such torture porn as I Spit on Your Grave. This is a thriller. No one promised you guts. In fact, I was a little confused by the nudity. I didn't think this would be one of those movies.So yes, the notion of several beautiful women on a camping trip from hell has been done. The revenge flick has been done, the "female empowerment" horror movement is one we all know. But I felt Black Rock was different, it had heart. It reminded me a bit of The Descent, in that it built characters I truly liked, they had dimension, I cared what happened to them. They fought back because they had to, and it was hard, and they didn't magically gain superpowers to do it. It built suspense, and threw a few thriller clichés out the window with the way things turned out. And maybe a little bit of female empowerment never hurt anybody.