Day 7 of my 31 day horror film binge. I thought I had already seen this one but when watching it nothing was familiar. Outlander (2008)
This is a mixed genre film. Mixing fantasy, sci-fi and horror. Starring Jim Cavaziel, John Hurt and Sophia Myles, this film is surprisingly set in Viking times. Cavaziel plays a man from the future/distant galaxy (not sure which) who crash lands on the Earth at the time of the Vikings. When he realises that he has inadvertently also bought a creature from another planet, he sets out to find it. He gets captured by a tribe of Vikings who at first, think he is responsible for the slaughter of one of their rivals villages. Once they realise that it is far worse than they imagined they all decide to group together and hunt the monster themselves. What follows is a well paced film with just the right amount of horror. The creature alone makes this a horror film and in places its quite gory and blood filled. It is one of my favourites watched so far and I give it a score of 8 out of 10.
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