All pretty scary if we hadn’t seen the same things many times before. There are the expected tropes: despite numerous cameras, poltergeist vandalism is unfilmed loud bangs in the night nasty things in the basement “a presence” being felt cameras getting knocked over a baby screaming an unexpected visitor a séance.
Once set up in the allegedly haunted house the couple realise that they might be out of their depth and enlist the help of their professor (Robert Daws) and his medium friend (Kitty McGeever) to try and rid the house, and themselves, of an entity. Then they arrive and sadly the clichés set in. In a nice touch, one character later assures them, “with everything going on in the world, this house is probably the safest place to be” (which is debatable). They assure each other that everything “Will be alright in the end” – we know it won’t be. Throughout the movie the cast listen to frightening news on the radio – Britain is on the brink of nuclear war and nowhere is safe. They even talk about eventually moving to Dartmoor. Our couple leave their car to wander around Hound Tor (pictured above) and there is a weird Dartmoor scene with something out there in the mist – proving hand-held cameras can be effective. It’s set in the near future of October 2016. This beginning is probably the best part of the movie. Here’s the plot: Tam (Lachlan Nieboer) and his girlfriend Rose (Lisa Kerr) are driving across Dartmoor to stay in a centuries old house where Tam hopes to obtain evidence of paranormal goings-on – he’s doing some kind of PhD.
It’s recently been showing up on the Horror Channel.Īt 90 minutes, and rated 15R, ‘The Unfolding’ is basically a haunted house horror film written, produced and directed by Eugene McGing – think a British Paranormal Activity set on Dartmoor and you won’t be far wrong. This is ‘The Unfolding’ made in 2015 and released under the ‘FrightFest Presents’ banner by Icon Film Distribution and presented at the horror fantasy film festival FrightFest.
It’s therefore nice to see a new horror movie made on Dartmoor. Here at WASD we like movies made locally in places we can recognise.
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