"Really Not the Way to Do It"
Where would ultra low-budget British horror films be without drone shots, those often professional-looking pieces of footage that are then interspersed between scenes of characters talking about nothing in particular, frequently in nightclubs or at parties until 'some horror happens', eventually, in films that tend to last around 80 minutes and still feel as if they take an age to get going?
And so we come to PUNCH, which somehow premiered at this year's Frightfest, is getting a digital release from Miracle media, and is guilty of all the above. Girls have been disappearing at a grim seaside resort and it looks like a man in a 'Punch' mask (as in 'and Judy' although the film assumes the viewer has a working knowledge of this seaside tradition) is responsible. He whacks people over the head with a baseball bat, talks in a frequently unintelligible 'Punch' voice, and sets his sights on Frankie (Alina Allison) with the climax taking place in an amusement park at night.
PUNCH boasts a great, grim, seaside location, and the killer's mask is scary, but otherwise this is pretty low rent stuff with numerous missed opportunities to build suspense and atmosphere. Here's the trailer:
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