Storm Warning (2007)

Storm Warning (2007)is an Australian suspense film, that's a bit hard for me to describe. I would definitely recommend watching it, because there is some gore factor in there that was a bit surprising, but it really doesn't hit until the last 30 minutes of the film or so. I am still a bit perplexed about what the lead female character stashed between her legs to avoid being raped. It looks like a bottle of some sort, but again, still pondering the physics and reality behind that one.

A brief synopsis of this movie, is a married couple who goes out on the water in a boat, ends up getting off course. They find some dry land, get a little lost and happen upon a house occupied by two brothers and a father who are all Australian, uh, let's say hicks, barbaric hicks at that. They do the typical fear and physical abuse that most suspense movies which involve plots with isolated hicks who like to torture and kill people, nothing very original there.

I do have a few issues with some of the plot in this movie, namely that if you are going to throw a husband and wife in an outside shed and they know you intend to harm them at your leisure, you probably shouldn't lock them up in a shed that has actual weapons. There were sharp metal equipment pieces, heavy chains, a plethora of huge fishing hooks, and just a number of impaling, bludgeoning, strangling items made available to these two who were locked up with apparently enough free time to fashion a number of weapons to defend themselves.

The one thing I found truly amusing, is how the wife, a very beautiful actress named Nadia Farès, it was painfully obvious that she was probably going to be brutally raped in this movie. Her husband, a fairly big athletic Aussie, proved absolutely worthless in doing anything to help her out, she took matters into her own hands, and said fuck it, I'll kill them on my own. Aussie women must be bad ass!

One of the other bits of info that makes this movie interesting to watch is actor David Lyons is in it. He starred in TV shows like Revolution and E.R. and a few movies; Safe Haven and Eat, Pray, Love to name just a few. Trust me, you have never seen him like this, and you will never want to again. The makeup they did to transform him into a brown toothed, dirty Australian, possibly inbred torturer, is a little overwhelming.