Directed by: Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego

Starring: Sharlto Copley, Joseph Morgan, Thomas Kretschmann, Erin Richards

For a horror-thriller, Open Grave bravely decides to throw high-octane ‘thrills’ out of the window in favour of a slow-burn tale of trust and discovery. This dark, harrowing story sees South African actor Sharlto Copley (District 9, The A-Team, Elysium) regain consciousness in a pit full of rotting corpses, with no idea who he is or how he got there.

Think of Open Grave as ‘The Hangover’ as written by Cormac McCarthy, and you actually wouldn’t be too far off – although Copley’s amnesiac stranger’s ‘night before’ is less about zany misadventures with Mike Tyson and more about the steady discovery of atrocities he may or may not have committed before the sudden memory loss. Continue reading →