The Preservation is nothing like that, but don't be surprised if it reminds you of it.
It only takes five minutes for the clumsy characterization of our protagonists to unfold and to bluntly reveal the entire movie's agenda, which is reinforced just as heavy-handedly throughout the next 85 minutes until the very end. But who cares about that, right? In fact the cast looks way better than what we see in the typical outdoor horror and the production quality seems quite adequate. That is why you would never expect to see such absurdly bad and unbelievable scenes. It begins with the first death of the movie and gets progressively worse until you wish to never sit through another movie of that writer again. Instead of following their internal logic characters are puppeteered into situations and actions, thus never feeling alive. The cast, Wrenn Schmidt in particular, does the best they can, but a storyline this bad just can't be saved.
I can only assume the writer saw Eden Lake, enjoyed it thoroughly and got ideas for supposedly very cool scenes, which he wrapped up in the mess of a plot we see before us. This is one of those cases where I wonder how the movie even got produced, one thing is for certain - the preservation should have remained closed.
It only takes five minutes for the clumsy characterization of our protagonists to unfold and to bluntly reveal the entire movie's agenda, which is reinforced just as heavy-handedly throughout the next 85 minutes until the very end. But who cares about that, right? In fact the cast looks way better than what we see in the typical outdoor horror and the production quality seems quite adequate. That is why you would never expect to see such absurdly bad and unbelievable scenes. It begins with the first death of the movie and gets progressively worse until you wish to never sit through another movie of that writer again. Instead of following their internal logic characters are puppeteered into situations and actions, thus never feeling alive. The cast, Wrenn Schmidt in particular, does the best they can, but a storyline this bad just can't be saved.
I can only assume the writer saw Eden Lake, enjoyed it thoroughly and got ideas for supposedly very cool scenes, which he wrapped up in the mess of a plot we see before us. This is one of those cases where I wonder how the movie even got produced, one thing is for certain - the preservation should have remained closed.