Shadow

Set along a mountain cycling path, called The Shadow, this Italian lenses horror features badly dubbed Brit psychopath stalking a soon to return to Afghanistan soldier an the attractive female he meets along the way before all of them, good bad or indifferent stumble into the lair of the cover character and everything goes a bit HOSTEL/SAW.

Despite the backing of Film 4 Frightfest to release SHADOW in the UK spurned along by their positive reviews the movie itself is actually quite derivative and dull. There was definitely hints at the possibilities of a technicolour overload and screaming rock score that graced many Italian films of the past but, if you will excuse the pun, this is a pale shadow of those visual and auditory nightmares SUSPIRIA and INFERNO. The lacklustre "torture porn" or "backwoods survival" element of the story hampers the movie form being the twisted tale that lead villain Mortis should inhabit. And THAT ending, let's just say I've had enough of that ending sometime ago it's not big or clever anymore and has been done better before.

Floppy.