Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre

The title might indicate that this is a documentary about the whale hunters on Iceland and their savage way of hunting these animals and thereby also a critique against Norway and Japan but no, it's not.

This is a not so succesful horror movie with a few glimpse of a more elaborated ideas, never being succesfully implemented in this œuvre.
The film makers - with director Júlíus Kemp at the front - is marketing this film as being made in "the same tradition as 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'".
It might be in the same tradition superficially seen, if meaning a horror movie with psychopaths and strange characters but not with the same twist as theses films and then you might envisage the quality.

In this film we meet a group of people of different origin and characters realizing a whale watching trip on a not so stable boat with a not so professional captain, being somewhat of a psychopath too.
On the way out, problem occurs and the captain leaves the - if not sinking - fragile vessel.
In their dispair the people left behind are finally being picked up by another boat with a "fishbilly" (as they are called on IMDb)-family who "takes care of them" in their own way.
Of course the director uses a clichéd image of a family of this kind: A "mad" mother who is in charge of everything and two sons: A "mentally retarded" one and a violent, psychpathic and strong one who - in cooperation with his brother and mother - uses his force, harpoons and other fishing tools to dispose of this group of people being 'rescued'.
A lot of blood is shed but the most disturbing scene is - in my opinion - a rape scene where a young woman is raped by the captain who fled the boat.

Well, we've seen much better horror movies and the blend of to many other film in this genre, makes it to a failed eclectic piece of work.

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