FEAR IN THE "TRIANGLE"

You may or may not have picked up on the fact that I am not a fan of horror movies. (the complete and persistent absence of the genre two months into the blog may have been a clue ). However, my job brought me face to face with Triangle – by Christopher Smith, the director of Creep and Severance - and I have to admit it is a cut above the rest.

Jess (Melissa George) and her friends have decided to go yacht sailing. The weather is perfect and all seems to be going well, but Jess cannot seem to relax and enjoy the trip. Her fears seem to be founded as well, because a freak storm completely destroys the yacht. Luckily, the group manages to climb on a large cruise ship as it passes…. Jess explores the ship with her friends accompanied by an increasing unease and strange feeling of déjà-vu… The strange thing is that the ship seems completely abandoned and running on its own… But they soon realize there is someone on the ship. And that someone seems intent on killing them all…

Now, of course this is a post for the fans of the genre mainly. There are many of the horror movie clichés we all snigger about. The most awkward looking one is the first to go, long dark corridors (ALOT of long dark corridors – it’s a cruise ship from the ‘30s), the abandoned ship itself, oh and the yacht is called “Triangle”. And for the first half of the film I didn’t really see what the fuss was about. But then as things progress and the “explanation” part of the film comes round, things certainly move up a notch. Because even though the events themselves may be slightly cliché the explanation for them most definitely is not… I would go as far as saying it is a distant cousin of the classic “Donnie Darko”. (A seriously distant cousin, but related all the same).Another good thing (I thought) was that the film is not a gore-fest (not that much blood ) nor does it try to make you jump with sound effects and the like. In fact, the main aim of the film as far as I could see was to make you feel creeped out and disturbed more than anything else. It is seriously successful in doing so. I do not particularly enjoy this sensation on a regular basis, but if you do, this is definitely one for you…