Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

CurtHerzstark Some people reviewing this film have been complaining everything from the script to the actual film itself but I wonder how many films they have seen that live to their high expectations? This lowbudget supernatural horror film was a big surprise for me because I never heard about it before nor have I met anyone who have seen it.The story about demon hunter Cathal(James Nesbitt) using irish "Pikey" or traveller/gypsy magic in order to snare a demon beast is slightly different from similar stories in the same genre. The hunt is not as easy as its seems and some people have a hidden agenda....Using very ordinary locations, in this case, a rundown apartment complex in Edinburgh poses it challenges. A type of location used in many other films like Fish Tank (2009), All or Nothing (2002), or A Taste of Honey (1961)etc.How to make such usual, cliché ridden location into something more menacing, chilling, more resembling the Gothic horror environment in an old abandoned castle for example? Director Colm McCarthy has the answer by using very little lighting, editing and very sparse use of CGI, makeup etc he creates a most chilling atmosphere out of a normal housing project.However, being a lowbudget means that whatever SFX is used is not as good as bigger budget movie but Colm McCarthy does a very good job with it.Story itself is reminiscent of some of Clive Barkers films, such as Lord of Illusions (1995), Hellraiser (1987), Nightbreed (1990). Mix this with irish traveller/gypsy magic and that type of culture (watch Ian Palmers doc Knuckle)and add some HP Lovecraft, especially themes from The Dunwich Horror and you will get what Outcast (2010)is about.The acting is very good, James Nesbitts obsessed demonhunter Cathal, Kate Dickies Mary who has done a lot great performances in films like Red Road (2006) now mostly famous from Game of Thrones is just excellent.The new faces for me are Hanna Stanbridge, Niall Bruton who are very good playing two teenagers thrust into a problematic situation that none of them seem to understand.So, future viewers that like supernatural horror films, and don't mind lowbudget flaws, watch this film with a different approach to witchcraft, demons and sorcery.

thesar-2 What happens when you like horror movies in addition to a dozen of other horror/action/adventure/TV shows but only have limited amount of time and money? You get Outcasted.I stopped counting around 12 or so of movies (and one TV show – the blatant references to The Sarah Connor Chronicles made me wonder if they had an original idea) Outcast reminded me of. One in particular, The Beast Within, sadly I have not finished watching (thanks Netflix streaming for holding my place) but it sure had similarities to the hour I've seen so far.While I'm always attracted to werewolf movies, I was surely tricked into seeing this one. The trailer didn't give too much and the poster – oh, boy – really made me think I was going to see one. Do not be fooled: this has as much to do with the werewolf lore as Twilight: New Moon does.Also, this movie is just plain overloaded with far too many plots/directions and it doesn't help that, though they speak English, the accents were as thick as the blood spilled in the film. Though I did admire they didn't make a straight-forward horror/beast story, this really bogged it down too far for most to follow. Further, they shot most of it in the dark – and I mean DARK, so good luck with the visuals.(The following paragraph reveals a lot of the plot, and is considered spoilers. Suffice it to say, it dissects roughly 9 directions the movie makes you weave in and out of to finally get a grasp of what this movie's really about.)Mommy (Bradley) and son (Bruton) not only have to keep on moving from town to dump, they have to arrange demonic symbols to ward off...something. Meanwhile, a hunter needs permission to, well, hunt the boy. Meanwhile, a beast is lurking in the shadows snatching women at night. Meanwhile, Mommy's paranoid and wards off anyone asking questions while trying to get her son to be gay. (Okay, not really true, but close enough.) Meanwhile, a gang terrorizes a neighbor and soon-to-be girlfriend of the Fergal, the son. Meanwhile, she's having a heavy burden of taking care of her "slow" brother and demanding mother. Meanwhile, there's another hunter who talks with the dead and disagrees with the traveling hunter. Meanwhile, more and more is revealed about Mommy's past. Meanwhile, Fergal's horny and that's not a good thing…While the movie's all over the place, it was still worth a shot to see. The acting's pretty good and the cinematography is decent – when it's bright out, that is. But, after you get past all those "meanwhiles" (or subplots, some of which I probably overlooked) you will finally get the conclusion that (REALLY DOESN'T – I'm still confused) sorta explains it all.

Paul Magne Haakonsen Well, this movie was sort of interesting in some ways, and dreadfully boring in others.The good parts about the movie was the setting, being in a run down apartment building, so there was sort of a gritty feel to the movie. And also the characters were quite interesting."Outcast" provides you with a somewhat good enough cast for the roles in the movie. Ciarán McMenamin, playing Liam (one of the two hunters) actually did a quite nice job in the movie. As did Hanna Stanbridge, playing Petronella. And despite having a really small role in the movie, then James Cosmo brought his usual grace to the movie. Just a shame that he didn't have more screen time.The movie takes a long time to build up its thrills, and when they do climax, it is sort of a disappointment, because nothing much actually does happen. You sit around, waiting and waiting, but nothing fruitful happens. Now, I am not saying that the movie is all together bad, it just drags on for a very long time. And the story told in "Outcast" proved interesting enough in a way.What killed off the movie experience for me was the time the movie took to get from A to B, with very little happening in between. Had there been more action and a quicker pace to it, this movie would have been awesome.And the 'beast', well what little you did see of it actually looked promising enough, but not nearly enough was shown of the creature in my opinion, and that also brought down the movie a notch. I like to see what we are dealing with, not being kept in the dark with only rare glimpses of what is out there.In overall, the movie had great potential, it was just killed off by its slow, dull pace. And that was a shame.

oOgiandujaOo_and_Eddy_Merckx This was really just meant to be a filler film for me at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, I just thought I'd cram in as many films as possible and went along to a late night showing of Outcast.It was actually really really good, and compared to the pap you get to see these days if you turn up at the cinema expecting horror fare, extraordinary. Successful horror plunges deep into fears that we have, here there's some really good stuff about sexual insecurity and fear of one's own burgeoning sexuality during adolescence, fear of pregnancy, fear of homelessness, anger about parental domination.It's a story about Mary (played by Kate Dickie - the lead in Red Road) and her adolescent son Fergal (Niall Bruton). They're on the run and hiding in an Edinburgh housing estate. The mother clearly has supernatural capabilities and is being hunted by Cathal (James Nesbitt) who has been temporarily given similar supernatural capabilities. It's a ritualistic hunt. Nesbitt usually plays debonair blarney-spouting roles but is cast against type as the baddie here, which is quite refreshing.There's some sort of underground feudalism going on as well, as Cathal crosses territory and has to ask a gentleman called The Laird for permission to hunt on his grounds. Maybe some secret yearnings for the feudal past going on here. What works well with all the supernatural stuff is that it's hinted that there are much larger issues at play, but these are left as mysterious.Fergal wants to hang with Petronella, a lovely wee lassie with a short skirt who is intent on laying him from the moment he arrives on the estate. There's a good young love story here and as well a good sex scene. Mary is very keen for Fergal to stay away from Petronella and insistently suppresses him. There are some very creepy scenes where Mary dominates Fergal and warns him away from girls.The special effects scenes work really well, but I don't want to spoil those for you, I would just say though that I felt they produced a good personification of some of the fears I've been referring to.Anyway this is a film I would describe as a cauldron of angst and desire, I think it deserves to be seen, the audience applauded spontaneously at the end, if it didn't at least get a wide release in Scotland, that would be a tragedy. Walking back to my hotel that night (a long walk) was damned spooky given I was in the location of the movie!