Triangle - Fear comes in waves
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Triangle - Fear comes in waves |
| Original title | Triangle |
| Country of production |
Australia United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christopher Smith |
| script | Christopher Smith |
| production |
Jason Newmark Julie Baines Chris Brown |
| music | Christian Henson |
| camera | Robert Humphreys |
| cut | Stuart Gazzard |
| occupation | |
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Triangle is an Australian-British horror film . The focus of the story is the young mother Jess, played by Melissa George , who rescues herself after a shipwreck with friends on a seemingly abandoned ghost ship . She gets into a time warp.
It premiered on August 27, 2009 at the London FrightFest Film Festival . The film was released as a direct-to-DVD production in Germany, the USA and a few other countries .
action
The single young mother Jess, who is stressed by her autistic son Tommy, takes part in a relaxing sailing trip on the boat of her friend Greg, who is interested in her. She looks disturbed and tells of having had a nightmare, but the contents of which she no longer remembers. When Greg's buddy Victor asks her where she left Tommy, she replies that he is in school. The other passengers on the Yacht Triangle are Downey and Sally, their girlfriend Heather and Victor. On the high seas, after a surprising calm, the group gets into a devastating storm in which the boat capsizes. Heather remains lost in the sea. The rest of the castaways save themselves on the Aeolus , a suddenly appeared, apparently deserted ocean passenger steamer .
While they are walking through the corridors in search of crew members and looking for the stairway to the ship's bridge, Jess experiences déjà-vus several times and asserts that she already knows the ship. Victor finds a bunch of keys that Jess recognizes as her own. In the dining room, Jess thinks she saw a stranger. While Victor takes up the chase, Jess and Greg discover a mirror in room 237 with the words "Go to Theater" written in blood on it. In the dining room, Jess meets the returning Victor, who has a fatal wound on the back of the head and attacks her. In the theater she finds Downey and Sally bent over Greg's corpse and witnesses how both of them are shot from the gallery by a masked perpetrator. As the only survivor, she fights the stranger until she can throw him overboard. Before her opponent falls into the sea, he gives Jess the puzzling clue that she must kill all of her fellow travelers in order to be able to leave the ghost ship herself. You can tell from the voice that the masked woman is a woman.
A little later, Jess hears calls for help at sea and sees the castaways, including himself, before they board the steamer. Surviving Jess now watches the plot repeat itself and gradually understands that she is on a time warp. While trying to explain the situation to the new Victor, she accidentally bumps his head against a hook on the wall, inflicting the fatal wound on the back of his head. Then she finds numerous pieces of paper in the locker room on which the masked person's request is repeated in her own handwriting: “If they board, kill them all.” (If they come on board, kill them all.) She procures a rifle and hits in the dining room on Victor and her alter ego . Her appearance changes the action, the action does not proceed as it did the first time and she recognizes in this the opportunity to change fate. She also tries to convince the new Downey and Sally of this. However, the couple encounter a later version of Jess, who lures them into room 237, stabs Downey there, and seriously injures Sally. The younger Jess follows the seriously injured Sally onto a side deck, where numerous dead copies of the woman are lying. On the lower deck she sees another Jess fighting with the hooded woman. After the wounded Sally dies, Jess hears again the approaching castaways.
After Jess observes the scene between her alter ego and Victor on the outside deck, she takes Downey's body from room 237, writes the message on the mirror with his blood and throws it overboard, as does Greg's body from the theater. With rifle and mask, she goes to the gallery of the theater, where she meets the new Greg, who recognizes her by her shoes. She explains to him that she must kill everyone and then not let the next group on the ghost ship. So she shoots him and the others in the group besides her copy. After the ensuing fight against her copy, the masked Jess falls overboard and is driven onto the beach from the sea. From there she gets back to her apartment.
The time loop is not over, however, she finds herself in the house next to Tommy and observes herself as an aggressive, overwhelmed mother. She kills her negative counterpart with a hammer and explains to Tommy, who witnessed the crime, that he had a bad dream. She drives away with Tommy in the back seat and her own corpse in the trunk. A seagull flies against the windshield. When Jess throws the dead animal into the ditch, she discovers numerous other dead seagulls there, which confirms the continuation of the loop. She drives on, tries to calm her distraught son down, is distracted and crashes into a truck. Tommy dies in the accident, the body that has fallen out of the trunk is mistaken for the driver by the helpers. Jess leaves the scene of the accident unharmed and lets a taxi driver take her to the port. There she meets Victor, who takes her to Greg's ship, and tells him that her child is in school. She goes on board and the cycle appears to start all over again.
background
The action takes place on the Miami coast , but filming took place in Queensland , Australia . Filming locations were the cities of Brisbane and Gold Coast . The pictures on the ghost ship were made on an artificial pier near Southport .
The film title Triangle (English: triangle ) originally referred to the Bermuda Triangle , in which the event was planned. After changing the script, the capsizing sailboat was given this name.
criticism
The majority of the reviewers rate Triangle positively because it differs from common horror and splatter films in its complex structure .
Renatus Töpke emphasizes the surprising twists: “The twists are terrific, they don't allow for boredom. Rather, there is more than one moment in which the viewer intends to watch the film a second time. ”In his opinion, the success in addition to“ the original story [...] a beautiful camera work, a dense staging and first-class actor performances ”contribute .
The reviewer for “Wie ist der Film?” Had a déjà vu himself at the beginning of the story: “Everything starts like we've seen umpteen times - and ultimately becomes the mindfuck of the year.” He sees a “not entirely new one, but implemented with a lot of brains Idea, inspired camera work, oppressive music, solid special effects and little-known but capable actors ”.
At filmszene.de, René Loch praises not only the pleasant uncertainty, but above all the leading actress Melissa George, in whom he sees “the emotional center of the film without a doubt”. "The fact that your film character Jess is the one who has to give the viewer support in a confused plot makes her authentic performance appear even stronger."
Michael Drewniok from filmbessprechungen.de rates a review of this film, which is “itself an endless loop”, as “a real challenge”. The supposedly incomplete plot, which “at first seems to expose the mistakes of a sloppy screenwriter, turns out to be a memory of a confused soul.” Melissa George impresses with her versatility: “Although she can sometimes be seen several times at the same time in her different identities, she puts every Jess a little different, so that we can clearly differentiate. "
Web links
- Triangle - The fear comes in waves in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Triangle - Fear comes in waves in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Approval certificate for Triangle - Fear comes in waves . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2010 (PDF; test number: 121 563 V).
- ↑ IMDB entry filming locations
- ↑ a b Michael Drewniok: Triangle - Fear comes in waves. filmbessprechungen.de, April 30, 2010, accessed on November 7, 2010 .
- ↑ IMDB entry FAQ for film (English)
- ^ Renatus Töpke: Triangle. (No longer available online.) Kino-zeit.de, archived from the original on July 2, 2010 ; Retrieved November 7, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Triangle - Fear comes in waves. wieistderfilm.de, accessed on November 7, 2010 .
- ↑ René Loch: DVD tip: Triangle - Fear comes in waves. filmszene.de, accessed on November 7, 2010 .
