Primal
2010 · Movie · NR · 80 min · ★ 5.2 · 70% critics
A group sets out to study ancient rock paintings in a remote wilderness, but one traveler becomes delirious after swimming and quickly regresses into a vicious, predatory state. As the others realize they’re the prey, they struggle to survive and must rely on a dangerous cave where the art’s meaning hits too close to home.
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Details
- Years
- 2010
- Release date
- 2010-09-22
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 80 min
- Critic score
- 70/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.2/10 (117 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy Primal if you want a straightforward, gore-heavy creature feature with a tense survival run in the wilderness; Not for you if you dislike predictable teen-horror plots or want a fully satisfying, polished finale like Ruin Me or Flight 7500.
Pros: animalistic monster energy; creepy remote setting; lots of gore | Cons: formulaic story; uneven final stretch; frustrating screaming
Themes
- australia
- cave painting
- transformation
- leech
- blackout
- black magic
- machete
- pregnant woman
- turns into animal
- teeth
- prehistoric man
- sickness
- +3 more
Cast & crew
Zoe Tuckwell-Smith
as Anja
Krew Boylan
as Mel
- WT
Will Travel
as Dace
- DF
Damien Freeleagus
as Warren
- RF
Rebekah Foord
as Kris
Lindsay Farris
as Chad
Directed by Josh Reed