Credit to Bill Bennett he manages to reinvent himself. Here he goes for the low budget horror route - an attractive young couple are on an island where Strange Things Happen. He touches on the colonial past and it's about a woman of colour being raped and getting revenge which is fair enough, just feels a little off soming from a white filmmaker. Geraldine Hakewill and Henry James are fine - James didn't do much else, I'm surprised that he didn't at least get a soap and/or some guesties.
Bennett goes on location which is pretty. It doesn't quite build appropriate menace - people keep getting knocked out and waking up when letting scenes play out might have been more effective. Ditto giving the young couple to play something more than "young hot couple" might've been ideal. And the Greek fisherman just being, well, bad Greek fisherman.
Basically it needed more menace and jump scares. Says I, anyway. It was fine. Hakewill has a strong screen presence.
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