Directed by:
Kevin GreutertScreenplay:
Jared RivetCinematography:
Andrew RussoComposer:
Anton SankoCast:
Johnathon Schaech, Deborah Kara Unger, Stephen Dorff, Nick Roux, Alyssa Julya Smith, Chelsea Ricketts, Ben Sullivan, Cassie Hernandez, Jason Scott Jenkins (more)VOD (3)
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When Justin Powell (Ben Sullivan) is captured by two ski-masked men and dragged back to a secluded cabin, it's anything but a standard kidnapping. Waiting for Justin at the cabin are his father (Johnathon Schaech) mother (Deborah Kara Unger), brother (Nick Roux) and former girlfriend (Chelsea Ricketts). Together, they attempt to free him from the sinister brainwashing he's undergone at the hands of a vicious cult known as The Jackals. (Showtime)
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Jackals is another brutal variation of the sophisticated French film Them as well as the more straightforward American movie The Strangers. The idea to put a family member in the spotlight is intriguing, but it makes the work with the characters and their behavior more challenging. Which, given the director’s limited experience and a healthy dose of narrative stupidity, brings about Jackals’ ultimate downfall. [Sitges FF]
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A fairly well made home invasion movie with a relatively interesting and original foundation, but which gradually falls into classic and well known tropes, failing to build anything on top of it in the end. As a genre exercise, however, it is solid: it is tense where it needs to be tense, the characters behave tolerably, the growing tension between them is realistic, and Jackals does have a few things to cheer at. For the horror audience looking for sleek genre movie, it is recommendable.
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