Review: Unhinged (2017)

So, funny thing about this movie. I really wanted to watch the 1982 version of “Unhinged” but couldn’t track it down anywhere. This one popped up in the Amazon queue and I figured why not. (I guessed it was a remake, and research says I guessed correctly. I’m pretty smart.)

The plot is built around four girls traveling the English countryside on the way to a wedding for one of them. They have an unfortunate interaction with a local and something terrible happens. Let’s just say it sets up the “guilty protagonists” trope.

The girls run out of gas and end at the house of a strange woman named Mrs. Perkins. (Oh, and there’s no cell service, of course.) Mrs. Perkins is a hoot! She seems right out of a BBC sitcom.

But soon the girls are being assaulted by a mysterious figure wearing a mask and a wedding dress.

The final reveal is exactly what you think it would be, but sometimes that’s not a crime.

“Unhinged” gets into some pretty grisly moments of torture porn. I literally got chills in one scene, which almost never happens. In that regard, this was successfully horrifying on a limited budget.

With the English setting, I was slightly reminded of the Sam Peckinpah film “Straw Dogs.”

I’m fairly certain the original “Unhinged” is better, but I can’t find it anywhere. This one will do in a pinch.

Best line: “I said very clearly you should not go into the woods and you walked into the woods.”

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