White Settlers

2015 "They don't belong here."
4.7| 1h23m| R| en
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Young urban couple Ed and Sarah are set to begin a new life when they move from London into an isolated borders Scottish farmhouse. After falling in love with the 19th century Castle Farm and seeing its potential as a fixer-upper they are anxious to get started on the renovations. In bed on their first night Sarah thinks she can hear noises in the darkness but Ed is disbelieving saying it’s her imagination playing tricks. Persisting in her fear they are not alone in the house, she forces Ed to investigate. When he doesn’t return after a scarily long period, she goes downstairs to investigate only to be confronted by a welcoming committee of masked intruders. As she desperately searches for Ed, a terrifying game of cat and mouse ensues with the mysterious assailants. But what do they want and what horrors do they have planned for the two newcomers?

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Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place
Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.
robertleiser Two unlikeable Londoners decide to relocate to Scotland. They're shown a house by an estate agent with a Hollywood Scottish accent - presumably because no Scottish actors are available to play Scottish parts - and decide to buy it.On the day they move in, the female lead (who else?) fuses all the lights while trying to wire a plug, and then begins their terrorisation by Scots in animal masks, whose visceral hatred of the English doesn't appear to need any explanation.If you're still sitting comfortably after these helpings of sexism and racism, you're then treated to an extended chase sequence; about two thirds of the movie's' running time. Just to rub in the low intelligence of the female lead, having killed off one of the attackers, she only stuns the next one, then drops a knife on the floor beside his hand, while standing above him looking the other way. That never ends well.Nor does the film: Having spent the night pursuing and torturing the English invaders, the attackers finally close in on them, and the movie cuts to the pair of them lying outside a Manchester tram station, with bemused onlookers. Meanwhile, back at the house, the attackers have scrubbed up, doffed their animal masks and are throwing a party, the suggestion being that everyone lives happily ever after.Because the victims wouldn't tell the police or anything would they?I've never liked the statement "Based on real events" in movie intros, as it's never clear to what extent. In this case I can only imagine that it's based on the real life event of two people driving to Scotland, as everything else presented here is completely implausible.
foutainoflife This is a run of the mill type of home invasion type thriller. It isn't bad, just same ol stuff. The one thing that really caught my attention with this film was the lead actress. I'm not sure of her name but I know that she was in "The Woman." I thought that she did a fantastic job in that film. I'm not sure of which film came first but I like that she was able to show a great deal of versatility between these two roles.
jenny-91399 I don't even really know where to start with this one. I was tempted to switch it off after the first ten minutes but persevered with it. Firstly neither of the two main characters are likeable in any way, between the husband's constant sniping about Scotland and the wife's inherent lack of being able to function as a human being. Within the first half an hour I really didn't care if either of them lived or died. Then we get to the chase scenes, which felt like an age of not much happening. Though the one good part was the woman's attack on one of the intruders where she was successful, unlike many horror characters prior to her, in hitting the guy more than once so that he would not get up again. I'm going to then skip straight to the good part, what we were all waiting for, the reason why these masked intruders were victimising this couple. Prepare to be disappointed, they wanted the house and then subsequently moved in straight away. They also appear to have dropped the two of them off back in London... I can imagine the police investigation will be one of the quickest in history. All in all, a really terrible and pointless film, I wouldn't waste your time on it.
errorllc Nothing and I mean nothing is good about this film. From start to finish this is bad just awful. The acting is atrocious, the action or fight scenes are less believable then wwf fighting. And to put the cherry on the crap pie. The ending makes absolutely no sense. They bought the house do the kidnappers think they're just gonna go oh well they don't want us there let's just abandon are 100k+ home and pretend we didn't buy it. And we'll never tell any police at all, within one day these capters would be arrested and put in prison easily. Do not waste your time.