JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Mr_Ectoplasma "Storm Warning" follows a couple boating along the Gold Coast who find themselves lost and winding up at a backwater farmhouse as a storm arrives at nightfall. Unfortunately, they picked the wrong house to lodge in.What "Storm Warning" has working in its favor is a strong sense of atmosphere-one that, oddly enough, doesn't feel all that Australian, but more like backwoods Texas. The film, written by Everett de Roche apparently in the 1990s, feels heavily inspired by "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" in more ways than one, and its visual elements are reminiscent of the backwoods genre-definer.Jamie Blanks, an Aussie himself who brought us two criminally-underrated stateside slashers (1998's "Urban Legend" and 2001's "Valentine") directs the film, and lends the film a grittier feel than his previous offerings, which were much more polished. The reality is, "Storm Warning" is a technically well-made film with solid performances, but it's frankly just not that interesting. Part of this may be due to the fact that it was written nearly a decade before it was made, so the screenplay perhaps does not feel as fresh post-millennium as it did pre-millennium. In any case, there is a "been there, done that" experience to watching the film. Aside from some great gore effects, the backwoods redneck antics feel like a retread with no particular aim, and the singular focus on the two protagonists demands a level of character development that isn't entirely present.The finale is particularly entertaining and at times mildly thrilling, but it ends in a manner that feels almost like a cop-out as it's so abrupt. While I can't condemn the film, I will say that, as well-made as it is, it simply feels stale. For fans of backwoods or backwater "redneck terror" flicks, it will prove mildly amusing though it feels almost as unremarkable as it does aptly-made. 6/10.

Leofwine_draca STORM WARNING is a film with the cards stacked against it. The plot, about a couple of innocent travellers falling foul of some psycho rednecks in the middle of nowhere, has literally been done to death so many times that just reading it on the back of the box made me yawn. Director Jamie Blanks was only known for directing a couple of pretty lame Hollywood horrors, URBAN LEGEND and VALENTINE, so he didn't seem to be the ideal guy to make a full-throttle horror/thriller combo. Plus it's a low budget movie with no notable actors. Indications were that this film was going to be dire.While I can't say that it blew me away, I will say this: it kept me watching. This is a film all about the suspense and tension which is slowly racked up over a ponderously paced first half before letting rip towards the climax. Yes, it's predictable, with a tired, seen-it-all-before air to it. There are elements of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes here, along with the sub-genre of 'home horrors' in which innocents are besieged in their homes by psycho gangs (the last one I watched was the execrable FUNNY GAMES U.S., so probably anything I saw afterwards would look good by comparison). But this isn't a film about plot or dialogue. It's a raw, survival-horror with a visceral edge.The characters intrigued me. French heroine Nadia Fares is another in a long line of tough, take-no-prisoners female fighters in the vein of Ellen Ripley, and watching her transform from timid victim into hammer-wielding killer is a plot of fun. She's saddled with a boring husband and up against three slimy redneck characters whose idea of fun is to kill travellers and steal their cars, rape pretty women, and sometimes enjoy a bit of 'long pig'. A lot of the suspense is built up through taut dialogue scenes, which made more of an impact on me than the usual torture-gore style employed by most horror makers today.But then the film reaches its home run, and Fares starts fighting back. It then turns gory. Very gory. Skin-ripping, intestine-scattering gory, completely over the top. It works, because the film-makers invite us to laugh along with the gore. Fares sets up some wicked traps to assail her victims with, and watching them get their just desserts is a matter of high entertainment. I defy anyone not to clap with joy come the last-reel denouement and another splattery death for one of the bad guys. In the end, this is a fine film, a breath of fresh air in a very tired genre. Jamie Blanks' direction is spot on, and the cast really get into it. The gore effects are very well handled and this doesn't leave a bad taste in the mouth like many grisly horrors these days. It may not be terrifying or disturbing like WOLF CREEK, but it is suspenseful, and it is a lot of fun. I recommend it.

utahman1971 Really, good movie and horror, and by horror I mean gore too. Yes, horror means gore. You got to look up the definition one of these times people. I am sick of people saying horror means scary. That is not all it means. Horror is disturbing, and by disturbing means gore. You can't just be disturbed without it, unless you think PG-13 so called horror is disturbing. To me it isn't, and is not even scary. I do not considered the PG-13 ones even horror since they are so tamed, they are boring.This movie reminds me of The Last House on the Left.I see the spoiler warning, but where is the mandatory votes? The rating system here is messed up, because people do not vote at all. That should of been done first not the spoiler. Oh well, guess the votes are going to stay way off.I have said this multiple times in my reviews, and the reviews are approved, but they continue to ignore the mandatory voting should be there on reviews. As long as this site has been up, mandatory voting should be here.Interesting movie with a couple going fishing and storm starts up and they go and get lost in brush, and stuck on a island where no where to go and thunderstorms are starting. So they go to find shelter at a farm assuming no one lives there, and finally realize some people actually do. Turns ugly when these people are rednecks, and only thing on their mind is rape, torture, and murder.

Squareeyes56 Occasionally a movie comes along which offers suspense, a critique of cultural and class divisions, and a general irreverence to political correctness, and this is one of them! There is an immediate affront made by the yuppie couple who use their privileged status to invade the private dwellings of the redneck father and the 2 sons he has raised single-handedly. The acting is superb, I forgot that I was watching actors, so immersed was I in the engrossing conflicts, the french actress, or was she an Aussie who could talk French fluently, the pompous barrister, but mostly the nihilisic rednecks, with their 'I drink therefore I think' personal philosophies. This makes Deliverance's hillbillies look like a choirboys!