For my next crappy horror film I decided to try Australia’s Gone, for the main reason that it supposedly stars “Chuck‘s” Yvonne Strzechowski (who appears in one scene and has no dialogue, alas).
As if Wolf Creek didn’t teach us all what a terrifying, Chainsaw Massacre-esque place Western Australia is, Gone sets out a run-of-the-mill three-person suspense thriller, with a young hip Australian couple terrorized by Scott Mechlowicz (of EuroTrip fame, who, after this movie and Mean Creek, can probably never play a normal person again.) That’s really all I can say about this movie. Mechlowicz has fully transformed from the innocent but lovable doofus of EuroTrip to a career as a B-movie creepy guy. There’s really no suspense until the last ten minutes or so, with the buildup consisting of various predictable efforts by the villain to create distrust between the Australian couple–he is helped by the fact that the boyfriend is a spazz and the girlfriend is an idiot.
The grand ending (Spoiler alert!) is definitely one to go down in the hall of fame for Frightening Use of Chain Link. Other than that, meh.