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KEEPSAKE (Paul Moore/USA)A Paul Moore filmScreenplay : Paul MooreCast: Robert Pralgo, Sunny La Rose, Anna Tulou, Courtney Hogan, Jeffrey Schmidt, Barry EllenbergerRunning time: 101 min.Young photographer Janine is a woman with a troubled past who wants to give herlife a new start. The traditional car engine trouble on a deserted highway is theintroduction to this new beginning, but certainly not the one she would have wanted.A lift from a psychopathic trucker will take her on a trip straight to hell. The manthrows her in a dungeon and gives her thirty days to live. Janine now has to face thedemons from her past as well as the dangers of the present. Bodies are starting topile up, blood is flowing freely. The true nature of her precarious situation revealsitself. Janine is stuck in a grisly game with only one purpose staying alive !There was a time when scary movies gave you plenty of escapism, followed by aliberating catharsis. The (un)human monsters were defeated and the survivorswalked home, hand in hand towards the sunset. With the world around us becoming a very unpleasantplace, a new generation of genre directors genre has stood up to give the middle finger to this traditionalhappy end. One of them is Paul Moore. Keepsake spares us no detail of the brutal degradation of the maincharacter. The label torture porn is a perfect fit for this terror trip.REEF (THE) (Andrew Traucki/Australia)An Andrew Traucki filmScreenplay: Andrew TrauckiCast: Damian Walshe-Howling, Gyton Grantley,Running time: 87 min.Adrienne Pickering, Zoe Naylor, Kieran Darcy-Smith, Mark SimpsonA bunch of friends decide to sail along Queensland’s tropical shores:turquoise water, white sand, palm trees, sun lotion with protection factor50… Paradise ! After their yacht hits a reef and overturns, our cheerfulfellows are a bit less enthusiastic as they find themselves adrift,heading towards the big blue. Luke, the brightest of the bunch,suggests swimming to the nearest island to avoid getting grilled by thehammering sun. According to him, sharks rarely attack humans. So,don’t panic! But what they don’t know is that an 18feet long great whiteshark wants to be the exception to this rule.You really need some cohones to make a shark movie after Jaws or themore recent Open Water. It certainly didn’t frighten Andrew Traucki. Thefact that he scared us into the trees three years ago with Black Water,starring a giant crocodile with an insatiable appetite, might have hadsomething to do with it. And it has to be said. Traucki has succeeded inscaring us out of the water. The Reef is beautifully shot, with effectiveediting and a haunting soundtrack boosting the tension meter into the red. By the way, the movie’s based onactual events. Party poopers who want to know who survived, may now surf to wikipedia, the others arewelcome to get their thrills at the Bifff.47