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Primal

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Six friends go camping in the outback of Australia and accidentally awaken something deadly that viciously hunts them down.

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Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Watch it with friends for 80 minutes of contemptuous mocking, but don’t expect an engaging story, genuine scares, or anything that might involve you. Rated: 1/4 Aug 3, 2023 Full Review Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed A forgettable and underwhelming survival horror picture... Nov 21, 2012 Full Review John Gholson Cinematical As monster movies go, 'Primal' ends up being worthwhile through its own simplicity. Feb 9, 2012 Full Review Christian Toto What Would Toto Watch? Primal is neither original nor well polished, but it brings the gore like a respectable genre outing should. Rated: 2.5/4 Jan 27, 2011 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews ...wears out its welcome to an almost astonishing degree. Rated: 1.5/4 Jan 25, 2011 Full Review Laura Clifford Reeling Reviews Writer/director/editor Josh Reed's low budget Australian horror film doesn't really take his audience anyplace new, but he does so with effective suspense, decent gore effects and some well placed humor. Rated: B- Dec 30, 2010 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member A balsy horror flick the blood and gore shine gorehounds are going to go nuts for this one this is another example of fine horror filmmaking all the actors are good here, the effects are somewhat post-modern, the makeup effects are pretty sweet and the scares are genuine not for the faint-hearted I might add Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 07/23/24 Full Review Audience Member Wow. I gave this movie a chance because of the 75 percent tomato rating. It was terrible. I turned it off halfway through. I tried to overlook the terrible quality, the obnoxious/unlikeable/underdeveloped characters and may have been able to finish it if I wasn't so utterly bored. Maybe there is some crazy surprise ending but at this point I just don't care. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member A waist of my life.... Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member This was better than I thought it would be, the creature was never explained but it was very well done, its not just another low budget piece of crap, the actors were believable and the picture was well made. It caught me by surprise this movie. I give it a C-. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 04/27/19 Full Review Audience Member Not a bad watch. This simple survival story has all the typical things you would expect with plenty of gore. Only gripe was some week CGI effects at end of film but that shouldn't stop you from watching it. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member After watching this movie I can safely say that it is not worth you time and that there are many other movies out there that could satisfy your needs for some horror in your life. Bottom line don't watch this movie. There will be some spoilers in the rest of this review so if you read on you have been warned.( However please save yourself the pain and don't watch this.) This movie follows a group of "friends" that are on a camping trip to study some ancient cave paintings. They arrive at a cave where they enter and one of the girls has to get out and drive around the mountain that the cave cuts through. When they arrive two of the kids are in a relationship start having sex in a tent that they have just set up. This is happening when their other friends are siting outside the tent. It a strange scene. At some point they all go and look at the painting that they were here for. 4 of the 6 kids go back to there camp and the two that stay are attacked by a rabbit with crazy sharp teeth. After this they go back to the camp and eat. One of the girls deciding she wants to go swimming in the pond that she has no clue what is in it. As she gets out she screams because she has a bunch of leeches on her body. She then is exposed to this sickness and the confusion starts. That is the start of the movie. That is as far as i'll go with the review except I have to address the three parts/aspects of the movie I hated the most. The fist is a part at the beginning of the movie where they show a flashback of this sickness taking place before to another group of people. It is only shown for 15 seconds at most, but is never explained. Secondly the insane amount of stupidity in this group of people. Lastly is the ending because it involves a tentacle rape scene and an attempted tentacle rape scene and it is why I give the movie only a .5. In conclusion don't watch this movie it is physically painful to watch. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Six friends go camping in the outback of Australia and accidentally awaken something deadly that viciously hunts them down.
Director
Josh Reed
Producer
Nigel Christensen, Josh Reed, John Cordukes, Rob Gibson
Screenwriter
Nigel Christensen, Josh Reed
Production Co
Talisman Films
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 30, 2016
Runtime
1h 24m
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