Primal - Reasonable little horror

I must have watched 'Primal' about 5-6 years ago.  I watched it again and completely forgot every last moment of it.  That kind of sums up the film.  You'll probably enjoy it if you're into horror/slasher type movies, but it's unlikely you'll remember anything about it in a few years time (and that's generous!).  In fact... one of the reasons I'm making sure I review it this time around is so that I can remind myself what it was like next time I decide to watch it.

If you've seen one teen-slasher film then you've pretty much seen them all.  Ever since the seventies' 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' was released, the premise of a bunch of teenagers (good-looking, of course!) getting stuck in some out-of-the-way location, only to end up being stalked by anything from rednecks to werewolves.

Here, you're typical bunch of overly-attractive teens happens to be Australian this time rather than American and instead of the mid-west States, they find themselves without cell phone reception in an Australian rain forest while researching some sort of... yeah, I kind of tuned out as to why they were there.  It doesn't matter.  Their presence basically awakens something pretty nasty and they start getting picked off one by one, just like every other teen-slasher film.

If you like the genre and you're not totally tired with the set-up then you could give this one a go.  It's pretty good - for what it is.  Of course you won't remember any of the characters' names during and definitely not AFTER the credits have rolled.  You'll know them only as 'brown-haired guy, slutty girl' and so on.

There are some pretty cool moments such as a stylish fight scene towards the end and something really gross in the final act.  There's quite a lot of gore, but nothing too over the top or anything you haven't seen before.  You'll know who's going to die and who's not when you first meet the characters, so there's nothing here you won't see coming.  Either way, like I say, if you're not bored of this type of film you could certainly do worse.

7/10 if I woke up on Groundhog Day and had to watch this again, I could live with that