Idyll

Just watched a truly superior horror film from Slovenia with subtitles. This is definitely a must-see, the production is amazing, the acting is great, and the script is extremely frightening with great graphic kills.

I absolutely love "Killbillies (2015)", it delivers the goods on all levels, and is better than most American horror films I've seen lately.

A photo shooting crew with two models and the photographer, go to an area they certainly should have stayed away from. Shortly, a couple of hillbillies capture them, putting them in a room while they prepare to use them to create an alcoholic beverage everyone loves. totally bizarre to say the least.

I can't rate this gem any higher, You really need to see this one. I absolutely loved it.

I don't often write reviews but I have to for this hidden gem. How on earth is this fine slasher film only rated at five stars? Ok, I get it the dialogue in the beginning is stale and the acting just ok. But, the movie doesn't waste much time on the exposition and once it gets going this is one beast of a movie. First of all it has great pacing, there is a continuous flow with lots of small twists and turns. Second, the main villain is fantastic. What a fear inspiring, evil and huge man. One of the best villains in movies like this. Next, the visuals are great. I mean this is a low budget film, but it has lots of cool atmospheric shots. And the gore and violence factor should also satisfy your expectations.

KILLBILLIES (aka: IDILA) is about a not-so typical day in the life of a model named Zina (Nina Ivanisis). Everything seems normal as Zina, along with a photographer and another female model, head out into the hinterlands for a photoshoot.

Along the way, a foreboding atmosphere starts building, as the local denizens exhibit some strange behavior. Once the trio meet at their wilderness destination, the weirdness gets a bit more frightening. The shoot is interrupted by two rural "gentlemen", who make the odious pair in DELIVERANCE look like Penn and Teller!

From this point, things go rather quickly downhill, and a harrowing, torturous ordeal unfolds. This is where it gets pretty gruesome! As the reason behind the grisly, seemingly sadistic horror becomes clear, it makes a sort of twisted sense.

At its black heart, this is a tale of addiction, supply, and demand. It's also a fantastic story of survival in the face of certain doom. Making full use of the breathtaking Slovenian countryside and ruins therein, the final sequence rivals the best of its sub-genre with its sheer power and exhilarating pace!

This movie is gory. Extremely so. However, it's also chilling, and has a novel, interesting plot.

Ms. Ivanisin is outstanding in her desperate, yet strong role. She plays it in a way that would make the likes of the great Tura Satana proud! Hair, leather jacket, and all!

Francl (Lotos Srarovec) is a very memorable, disgustingly eeevil character. He's like all of the inbred mutants from WRONG TURN rolled into one icky package!

Gorehounds and those willing to take a chance should add this one to their watchlist...

I mean, if you are looking for one film to scare the sh*t out of you this Halloween...Slovenia's first ever horror film Idila (aka Killbillies) is an excellent choice.

Cause this film is scary as hell. And when it's not scaring the crap out of you, it's wrought with tension...getting you right into things.

It starts out pretty tamely, with a group of models drinking at a bar. The next day, two of them head off on a photo shoot, in a rural part of the mountains, with their photographer and his assistant.

However, right when they are about to start shooting...they are approached by two creepy, disgusting and deformed, rednecks. One wielding an axe.

The two men promptly knock out the photographer...and the next thing you know...they are all held up in a cell.

Taken prisoner by these psychopathic mountain hillbillies.

And this is where it starts to get terrifying.

They murder the photographer (by bashing his skull into the wall). And seize the eldest of the three women.

You totally think they are going to viciously rape her...but instead, they tap into her adrenal gland and drain it of it's juices (until she's dead). They use this to distill a popular bootleg moonshine.

The girls do still have some fight left in them though. And they use a golden oppourtunity to escape.

Although, it doesn't exactly go as planned.

What ensues is an epic, tension-filled, chase and fight to the death.

With an ending that is sure to disappoint you in the best possible way.

This film is totally vicious, filled with gore, and great special effects. The scenery is beautiful. And there is so much tension, that it is genuinely terrifying.

A great film to turn to if you want to get your fright on this October.

7.5 out of 10.

OK yes, this scenario has been played out before many years ago and it lifts elements going back from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre(original)" with a good splash of "Deliverance" and borrows the "Wrong Turn" concept, but with much more violent content. I personally don't have a problem with it because as a true horror hound I relish when a film truly does justice to films of old and entertains viewers on some new levels of horror.

Being a very low budget film at €220,000 didn't stop it from delivering very explicit and realistic gore. The team behind all of the practical special effects did one hell of job as there were plenty of memorable gore that looked perfect.

The villains, oh boy the villains, these two mountain "killbillies" were the most vile and disgusting duo I've ever seen in a horror film, the very sight of them is almost enough to induce vomiting for those sensitive to such things. Hats off to the casting director who found these guys, wherever they came from. One of them is more or less useless, but Frankl aka puss-face is one formidable son of a b!tch and he played his role well. I'm leaving out the plot in this as it's pretty straightforward and there isn't much need for repeating the film's summary, moving on.

Again hats off to Slovenia for bringing the goods for one entertaining splatter horror/thriller. I found the acting to be good, but since I was reading subtitles they kind of have a way of covering up any badly delivered dialogue. I felt the ending was great, though admittedly I do have quite a dark sense of humor, it was kind of refreshing from the usual cliché endings in these type of films, sick and twisted, but good.

So far the film in my opinion is criminally underrated at a 5.0/10, this is an above average horror flick which was made on a budget, but you can hardly even notice the cash restraints. The effects guys really put their heart into it and gave it their all and it showed.

Also when the girls aren't in the dark cellar, the film is chock full of amazing and breathtaking visuals of the gorgeous Slovenian mountains, talk about a view. The location they film at was visually stunning, it definitely added to the film. Not only the isolation, but the landscape itself can be treacherous for our protagonists. This being a Slovenian film, they showed that while absorbing all of our American horror flicks, they in turn gave us their own little unique version of madness and depravity that while familiar managed to be unique to them and their territory. My final score is a 6.5/10(rounded to 7/10), but apparently I enjoyed it more than most(to each their own) and I am totally open for catching the next film of writer/director Tomaz Gorkic, if he gets the opportunity to make one. Recommended only for true horror fans.