Andy Serkis, Reece Shearsmith, Jennifer Ellison

Forced into hiding after their kidnapping plan goes awry, two rival siblings, David and Peter, find themselves fighting for their sanity while they hole up in a secluded country cottage. Weighed down ...( read more  read more... )by a hostage who refuses to stay quiet, they quickly find themselves held captive by their own victim. But everyone's problems go from bad to worse when they come face-to-face with their psychotic axe-wielding neighbor: a demented farmer with a dark, nasty secret...

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Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Paul Andrew Williams

Release Date: February 7, 2008

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DVD Release Date: June 3, 2008

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  • December 17, 2008
    This is a very good comedy horror in the vein of Shaun of the Dead, Severance. Funny, gory in places with a good sense of British humour about it too. If you liked the other films mentioned here this is worth checking out, good to see Andy Serkis in an unusual role and nice to se...( read more)e Jennifer Ellison. Even the DVD animated menus are refreshingly good!
  • December 1, 2008
    Very funny movie with a big dose of gore throw in.Mixed up with the 1st part being a comedy cape double acted which leads to the horror slasher part next.Its great to see the british making horror movies again and not just gangster movies also check out "eden lake" another well m...( read more)ade british horror.By the end of the cottage you are left with a very twisted and funning end worth wanting for!
  • December 1, 2008
    Very fun British horror/comedy with many nice and messy surprises. I rather expected a horror, but spent the first half laughing at a a kidnapping gone wrong! A fairly unknown cast does well, (great to see Serkis/King-Gollum in the flesh) and the script is sharp and doesn't feel ...( read more)recycled. Highly admirable for it's originality, but sadly it's market is greatly limited by a sceptic audience and a pretty crap title.
  • November 6, 2008
    Disappointingly mundane horror-comedy which is horrid but not funny.
  • September 20, 2008
    Williams comes off the excellent London to Brighton and takes the only logical step. He makes a slasher comedy. It's a brilliantly made slasher comedy. Not the usual road trip goes bad or just some people being cut up the film starts as a crime caper. Shearsmith and Serkis are ex...( read more)cellent comedy siblings with great chemistry, I can imagine them being the burglars in Home Alone. Steven O'Donnell soon joins in the fun as a bungling idiot whom you simply have to sympathise with, he's so clueless you have to wonder if he knows that kidnapping is bad. Finally there's Ellison who looks and sounds great as a foul mouthed violent little bitch. She's more than enough for her captors to be dealing with. After a humourous encounter with the locals the film spirals into slasher territory and does it rather well. It plays with a few horror conventions, uses gory slapstick to excellent effect and keeps the relationships between the characters fun and fresh. It's no horror classic, sacrificing scares for laughs, but it is a nice twisted tale of brotherly love.
  • November 6, 2009
    I dont know why but I expected this movie to suck but it was a 100 times better then I ever expected.What a Great movie!!!
  • October 29, 2009
    THE COTTAGE is a great place to live but I certainly wouldn't want to visit because as the villagers warn, strangers don't do very well around there. This film is a perfect example of how to make a horror film: take 1 part droll British humor, add 2 bumbling criminals, blend in 1...( read more) foul mouthed kidnap victim, pour in several gallons of bodily fluids (preferably red), and then hack, slash, rip, rend, slice and dice with everything from knives to rakes, shovels,and pick-axes until you think you've seen all the viscera there is to see--and then add that nice little surprise twist at the end. That's what I call entertainment!
  • October 22, 2009
    Terrible acting from everyone in it! Really bad. Disgusting, horrible, sick and utterly terrible acting!!
  • September 28, 2009
    Worth checking out. The storyline was good, the acting was so so. The characters were kinda boring and the maniac killing everybody wasn't that scary looking, he was probably the worst character of all. I thought director Paul Andrew Williams could've done more with this movie. I...( read more)t had decent humor, the gore was good and so was the ending, that and that only is probably the reason why I'm rating this above average.
  • September 17, 2009
    This was kind of a silly movie. It did have lots of gore and silly brittish humor. Overall it is worth watching.

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