The Grey (2012)

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Reviewer Rating: 
7


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Rating #: 

7/10

Director: 

Joe Carnahan

Runtime: 

117 minutes

Cast: 

Liam Neeson,
Dermot Mulroney,
Joe Anderson,
James Badge Dale,
Dallas Roberts,
Frank Grillo,
Nonso Anozie,
Ben Bray

Overall: 

The Grey is a multi-layered survival pic that really puts you right in with the group and offers some tense scenes and incredibly menacing foes. The slow and moody atmosphere may deter some people who went in expecting a fast-paced thriller, but if you forget the misleading trailers and accept it for what it is, you'll see that this is definitely one of the better and more memorable survival man-vs-nature films to come out in years.

From dirty cops, overzealous hitmen, flying tanks, and now murderous wolves, director Joe Carnahan has had an interesting career the past decade and he really surprised me with The Grey. Not just because I liked it, but also because the film was actually quite different than how it was portrayed in trailers. While all the footage seemed to depict a really ballsy fast-paced survival pic, the movie itself was actually more of a moody survival drama, with brief spurts of action and thriller aspects now and then. It worked in it’s favor, in my opinion.
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The Grey (2011) Review

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

I have experienced things in life that have taught me to never say,”It can’t get worse than this”! Because I know it can.Every horror fan usually knows this by the films they watch. If you mistake what happens in films as things “that will never happen to me”,well,you’ll learn.

As The Grey opens on the cold,bleakness Liam Neeson appears as a man that has no dream of life left,no lies,no illusions.The reasons are not apparent.

He is a sniper contracted to protect oil rig workers from infrequent wolf attacks,and shoots only when completely necessary.He respects the animal enough to know its dangers.His fellow humans he has much less admiration for,at least the ones he works with.They are the refuse of the real world,who deserve to be in the harsh conditions that he has chosen to be in.

On a routine flight to return to civilization the plane crashes literally in the middle of nowhere.The sound editors and techs did such a fantastic job with this film you feel as close to everything that is possible without actually being there.Real depictions of crash victims-and the cold,the cold is a complete character on it’s own.That would be enough to threaten your life.

Then you are hit with the real fear.The primal one most of us have forgotten on our long ride at the top of the food chain. The line between our world of safety and 911 and sanity, and complete all bets are off,nothing will save you but yourself world, is very thin.

He finds out in the worst way possible that the plane has crashed in the world of the wolf and they do not belong there.

Having some knowledge of the animal, but not much else he scrambles to live and protect what is left of humanity in this unforgiving reality. The survivors try to cope as well as you or I could,and we are along for every terrifyingly tense moment.

The Grey is real,raw,scary and so good you will be appreciative of every aspect of your life.Neeson is at his best when thrown against everything that man and nature fears, and it is a film experience. See it!

Editors note: This review was contributed by a reader by email submission to scoops@horror-movies.ca! 


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Grey Lady

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The Grey Lady is a true ghost story about a haunted library in Indiana. The ghostly image of a lady in grey has even been captured on security cameras that were installed in Willard Library. The Grey…



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Wolves Become the Slasher in ‘The Grey’

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

The upcoming survival thriller The Grey from Joe Carnahan (The A-Team, Smokin’ Aces) is directed the flick which is currently in production according to the guys over at STYD. The film stars A-Team star Liam Neeson and Frank Grillo from Bousman’s Mother’s Day, and in the latest edition of Entertainment Weekly, the first official still has been released and we have it for you below.

Now your probably thinking, what the heck is this guy on about, when wolves are the slasher? Well in the film a group of men are being stalked by a pack of wolves and Joe Carnahan goes on to tell EW that the wolves are “like a slasher in a slasher movie.”

This sounds pretty good to me, I’m just hoping the wolves ain’t laden with CGI, just give me a wolf, a real one or at least prosthetic or even a dog.

What do you guys think?


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