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Genres:
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Thriller
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Director:
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Mark Tonderai
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Actors:
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Robbie Gee,
Andreas Wisniewski,
Stuart McQuarrie,
William Ash,
Claire Keelan,
Peter Wyatt,
Carol Allen,
Harry Mondryk,
Tobias Adams-Heighway,
Dasiy Mondryk,
Allison Saxton,
Christine Bottomley,
Sheila Reid,
Shaun Dingwall,
Rupert Procter
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Rating:
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(6.3/10)96.5
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Plot Summary:
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Weary and irritable, Zakes Abbott drives home along the motorway, his girlfriend, Beth, asleep beside him. Failing to spot his exit he speeds across the causeway, cutting up a white van and barely avoiding an addition. Apoplectic with rage, the truck driver gives chase, and as he violently overtakes the tailgate flips up revealing a lassie bound and bloodied in the back. But up front there is time in favour of a subordinate look, the door is slammed and Zakes is red bewildered and wondering if what he saw was genuine. Later at a service station, Zakes' fears thrive when Beth goes missing, an... d as he begins a excited search, he is enticed into a deadly game of cat and mouse on the neglected motorway. But being the sole witness to the earlier scene, how does he convince others of his beyond hope want for the benefit of help? Playing on our most primal fears, this taut suspense thriller challenges a time where we constantly move responsibility over to someone else and asks the give someone the third degree: what do you do when there is no one else there?
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Hush
Mark Tonderai's low-budget debut sees Will Ash mislay his girlfriend Christine Bottomley (the actors known to British viewers from 'Clocking Off' and the pub-based sitcom 'Early Doors' respectively) at a service station and then embark on an increasingly dangerous mission to rescue her. It's a well-worn premise and 'Hush' takes plenty of cues from 'The Vanishing', 'Wrong Turn' and, in its M1-bound action, the classic freeway thriller 'Duel'. If plausibility occasionally takes a backseat, Tonderai at least delivers the fairly routine chills, thrills and spills at such a breathless pace that you barely have time to consider the more ridiculous elements of the plot. In fact, for a debut, the director shows considerable mastery at main...
Brilliant - tense and very real.
We saw Hush at the cinema in London last week - bit of a buzz about this one for such a small budget film - first showing was completely sold out so had to hang around for the late showing. Was worth the wait though - a really tense and beliveable drama - I had to keep unclenching my hands as they were starting to ache !
Film starts off with a couple arguing in a car on the motorway at night. Camera work is a bit jerky (almost camcorder) but this just helps highlight that this is just an ordinary couple. They then witness what appears to be a kidnapped woman in a white van and how the male lead reacts to this (sort of its someone else's problem) leads to the couple finally breaking up at the next service station. And then the female lead goes missing. The rest of the film is inc...
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