Elfie Hopkins: Cannibal Hunter

WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT ELFIE?
Elfie (Jaime Winstone)lives in the quiet town of Thorntree Valley. She plays detective along with her stoner friend Dylan Parker (Aneurin Barnard). When the Gammon family moves in next door, Elfie immediately becomes suspicious of them. What they are up to, she doesn't know, but along with the help of Dylan, she is going to find out. The family operates a specialty vacation agency, so the people they book, stay gone for a long time.

The audience is left in the dark as to what is going on, if anything, as things have an explanation outside of the Gammons.

This is a cult film which is a light dark comedy, pardon my oxymoron. Elfie operates in an amateur fashion using 1980's technology. She clearly plays her hand too soon. Just a fun cult popcorn film.

Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

rather slow, until it changes gears, and goes for the throat...
Elfie Hopkins: Cannibal Hunter (2012) is a deceptive British horror/comedy, where what seems to be a rather pedestrian mystery story, abruptly explodes in a display of violence. Elfie Hopkins (Jaime Winstone, Made in Dagenham) is a strange and often angry young woman, who talks into a tape recorder, and has the unlikely ambition of becoming some kind of detective. Living in a small village with her family, she and her geeky friend Dylan (Aneurin Banard, Citadel), seem to have little to do except smoke weed, until the Gammon family, moves into the house next door.

Mr. Gammon (Rupert Evans, Hellboy), and his wife Ruby (Kate Magowan, A Lonely Place to Die), are in the travel business, and...

Subtle British Horror
The British Horror Film has seen a resurgence in the past decade with some really nice gems in the mix of all the blood and guts. Here we have Director Ryan Andrews's 'ELFIE HOPKINS: CANNIBAL HUNTER'-2012, a film which builds into a pressure cooker frenzy by the last 30 minutes. It's really hard to give a synopsis of what goes on before entering spoiler territory, suffice it to say that the DVD cover does not do the film justice as its advertised as a splatter fest in 'BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER' mode. The film is very subtle in its build up, the characters are eccentric (you may want to press the subtitle button because the British dialects are hard to fathom sometimes), and the story is wonderfully original. Jamie Winstone is excellent as the title character and her father Ray Winstone who is also Executive Producer on the film plays a nice cameo which abets the mania. Beautiful location photography by Tovia Sempi and a melancholic music score by Jordan Andrews round out the mix...

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