Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

redrobin62-321-207311 Very few films live up to their billing as being truly graphic and gory, but for movies that do, like "A l'interieur," "Haute Tension," "Martyrs," and now "Storm Warning," you're sure to have an experience well worth your investment in time. I knew very little going into "Storm Warning" other than it was about a yuppie couple getting stranded somewhere in the boondocks and their eventual fight for survival. The couple in question, interesting, seemed like a mismatched pair because the husband has the spine of a jellyfish. At the end of this flick I actually blurted out "Wow!" because everything fell into place - the acting, the violence, the direction and the loud, driving musical score. It was a very intense experience and definitely worthy of the moniker "Dimension Extreme."Note to self: whatever you do in life, don't buy a pitbull.

Leofwine_draca STORM WARNING is a film with the cards stacked against it. The plot, about a couple of innocent travellers falling foul of some psycho rednecks in the middle of nowhere, has literally been done to death so many times that just reading it on the back of the box made me yawn. Director Jamie Blanks was only known for directing a couple of pretty lame Hollywood horrors, URBAN LEGEND and VALENTINE, so he didn't seem to be the ideal guy to make a full-throttle horror/thriller combo. Plus it's a low budget movie with no notable actors. Indications were that this film was going to be dire.While I can't say that it blew me away, I will say this: it kept me watching. This is a film all about the suspense and tension which is slowly racked up over a ponderously paced first half before letting rip towards the climax. Yes, it's predictable, with a tired, seen-it-all-before air to it. There are elements of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes here, along with the sub-genre of 'home horrors' in which innocents are besieged in their homes by psycho gangs (the last one I watched was the execrable FUNNY GAMES U.S., so probably anything I saw afterwards would look good by comparison). But this isn't a film about plot or dialogue. It's a raw, survival-horror with a visceral edge.The characters intrigued me. French heroine Nadia Fares is another in a long line of tough, take-no-prisoners female fighters in the vein of Ellen Ripley, and watching her transform from timid victim into hammer-wielding killer is a plot of fun. She's saddled with a boring husband and up against three slimy redneck characters whose idea of fun is to kill travellers and steal their cars, rape pretty women, and sometimes enjoy a bit of 'long pig'. A lot of the suspense is built up through taut dialogue scenes, which made more of an impact on me than the usual torture-gore style employed by most horror makers today.But then the film reaches its home run, and Fares starts fighting back. It then turns gory. Very gory. Skin-ripping, intestine-scattering gory, completely over the top. It works, because the film-makers invite us to laugh along with the gore. Fares sets up some wicked traps to assail her victims with, and watching them get their just desserts is a matter of high entertainment. I defy anyone not to clap with joy come the last-reel denouement and another splattery death for one of the bad guys. In the end, this is a fine film, a breath of fresh air in a very tired genre. Jamie Blanks' direction is spot on, and the cast really get into it. The gore effects are very well handled and this doesn't leave a bad taste in the mouth like many grisly horrors these days. It may not be terrifying or disturbing like WOLF CREEK, but it is suspenseful, and it is a lot of fun. I recommend it.

TheHrunting "Storm Warning" is an Aussie film that takes on hard-to-mistake characteristics of "Deliverance" and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" still some 30 years later. This likewise has the wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time city slickers, the isolated location and who could forget the dysfunctional family to clench the formula.Are you, or someone you know, the type of person that needs a solid reason to get angry or inflict violence? This film is aimed more at the individual that even when pushed has a tendency to either swallow their pride or let conflict whiz right over their head. "Storm Warning" takes one regular lawyer and one significant other with spiced up French accent and throws them into a situation that leaves them paralyzed by fear. The first half of the film heads in the direction of "Funny Games" and "The Strangers" with too-timid-for-their-own-good folks pitifully matched up against some really shady, don't-bring-these-guys-home-to-your-mother type of characters. Though the fortunate difference is when the going gets rough, these regular people might find out they have more primitive survival skills in them than they thought.This has no doubt been done before, so there aren't a load of surprises to unwrap or leave gaping wounds from. Though the film is effective in that it can take the audience out of their comfort zone and give a somewhat disgusted feeling from these crusty-toothed individuals that missed a few key links in the gene pool. "Storm Warning" works more for the individual who maintains a calm environment and isn't too distanced from routine, because for someone who can instantly spark anger or took a few can't-wait-to-try-these-out techniques in martial arts, this film would have been most likely over in 30 minutes. But that's just it, these people seem to represent that gal or guy that you wouldn't recognize in a crowd or read about in the local paper for on-the-spot heroism. This shows that some wear their caveman attire on the outside, while others repress that due to adaptive, modern conditions. (Also submitted on http://fromblacktoredfilmreviews.blogspot.com/)

BA_Harrison If there's one thing I've learnt from horror films it's that seeking refuge in a building miles from anywhere is never a good idea, particularly if it looks like it was decorated by Ed Gein. The yuppie couple in Storm Warning, Aussie barrister Rob (Robert Taylor) and his sexy French wife Pia (Nadia Farès), obviously aren't fans of scary flicks, however, and happily shelter from the elements in a remote, ramshackle farmhouse that would have me turning on my heels and hightailing it without hesitation.Despite all of the signs saying 'Get the hell out of here NOW!' (a well-used, semi-inflated sex doll on the couch is a dead giveaway that this place isn't home to normal folk), the couple check the place out, only to discover that the owners are growing marijuana on a massive scale. The penny finally drops that they will be in big trouble if they stay any longer and the couple decide to leave, only to bump into vicious drug-farmers Jimmy (David Lyons), Brett (Mathew Wilkinson) and Poppy (John Brumpton) on their way out...Predictable, yes—but despite it's well-worn set-up and a couple of flaws in logic, Storm Warning is a very enjoyable and gory romp. Director Jamie Blanks handles the material well, building the suspense nicely, ensuring that the action zips along at a brisk pace, commanding great performances from his cast (particularly from his vile antagonists), and delivering plenty of that all-important nastiness we expect from such fare.Matters might get rather silly once Rob has been 'nobbled' and Pia must learn to fight or die (she displays an inventiveness on a par with MacGyver when it comes to rigging booby traps), but with so much great gore on display, it matters not if there is the odd iffy plot development. With a splendidly splattery fish-hooks-in-the-face death scene, a nasty surprise for a would-be rapist, and a real humdinger of a finale involving a swamp hovercraft, this is a decent addition for any horror fan's DVD collection.