F (2010)

Not Recommended

UK

Feature Film

Writer/Director: Johannes Roberts

Cinematographer: Tim Sidell

Composer: Neil Stemp

Cast: David Schofield, Eliza Bennett, Ruth Gemmell, Juliet Aubrey, Emma Cleasby, Finlay Robertson

Exploiting and exploring rather than embodying bourgeois paranoia about knife-wielding hooded youths, Johannes Roberts’s vaguely promising school-set horror flick is certainly a big step up from the execrable Eden Lake (2008), with which it shares some common traits and themes, but with its wafer-thin characters and bafflingly illogical plot turns the film is certainly far from being an accomplished one. Iain.Stott