Caught Inside (2010)

Caught Inside: Directed by Adam Blaiklock. With Ben Oxenbould, Daisy Betts, Sam Lyndon, Simon Lyndon. Surfing charters are meant to be a trip to Paradise. With six male surfers stuck on a boat, there’s bound to be some friction. When two of the surf crew are replaced at the last minute with girls – the heat is turned way up. The one single girl on board – SAM – enjoys the attention. She has Bull and Rob wrapped around her finger. The frustrated, psychotic, Bull soon decides, “she’ll get what she’s asking for” and molests her. Outraged, the others abandon him on an island, but the ever-determined Bull returns, and takes control of the boat. He attacks the crew and holds them hostage. He harasses Sam and tortures the others. It’s a nightmare battle of wits, on board the yacht, as the five imprisoned friends must survive the fury of the psycho at the helm.

“I saw this on the first public screening so there were cast and crew there and the mood in the room of the general public in attendance was very supportive which made it for a very enjoyable experience on the whole. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThough Ben Oxenbouldu0026#39;s performance is the stand out for me, the rest of the cast are also incredibly good and deserve much praise. What I liked most about this film was the believability of the characters, even the villain is someone you can imagine existing (and in school days Iu0026#39;m sure some of us met one or two people who were destined to turn out like the villain!). I very much enjoyed how characters acted in a such realistic manner. One of the male characters is completely de-masculinised throughout the villains reign and unable to protect the other characters, or his girlfriend, which was quite innovative and just screamed of authenticity. Too many films are full of testosterone fuelled 5 minute fight scenes, where as this films fights were clumsy and awkward, as they would be in real life.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe u0026#39;herou0026#39; of the piece (I canu0026#39;t remember the names properly but the brown haired fit looking guy who starts a romance with Sam) is written very well in not being too tough either, heu0026#39;s masculine, and brave, but heu0026#39;s no Vin Diesel, heu0026#39;s just a human trapped in a desperate situation doing the best he can.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMy only criticism is that perhaps it took too long to get to the meaty part of the film when the villain takes control of the boat. The last movie of this type I saw was Donkeypunch, and though that was good in a popcorn movie kinda way, u0026#39;Caught Insideu0026#39; is ahead of a lot of thrillers is the completely believable behaviour and realistic and natural dialogue, which in turn makes for some quite edge of your seat moments. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs an indie Australian film the cast and crew have done incredibly well in pulling together this enjoyable and tense little film and Iu0026#39;d definitely be proud to see it go overseas and do the indie festival circuits.”