Monsters have become a mainstay in
low budget horror film arena. Ever since
Alien (1979) became a Box Office and audience hit film makers have been trying
to create the next big monster film franchise (of which only the Predator films
seem to have done). This is the sub-genre
of horror of which the film Killer Mountain (2011) belongs.
When the team of mountain climbers
lead by Kate Donovan (Emmanuelle Vaugier) go missing during a snow storm, her
husband Ward (Aaron Douglas) is hired to mount a rescue team. As Ward and his team quickly ascend the mountain
they learn that the previous team had a previous agenda on the mountain and
that this agenda led to them encountering an unknown creature that uses the
mountain to hunt and kill its prey. Now
time is running out for Ward as he tries to find and save Kate while also
trying to find a way to keep his team alive when the mountain just wants all of
them dead.
Having the film take place on a
mountain is a welcomed change in location from the typical horror film and
despite the usual low budget CGI the monsters in this film are not half that
bad. Vaugier, as usual, does a good job
of keeping the film more on the serious side rather than the comedy-horror
route that most other horror films have taken.
She has been a horror genre icon
in such films as Saw II (2005) and Saw IV (2007), Mirrors 2 (2010), Hysteria
(2010), Dolan’s Cadillac (2009), Unearthed (2007), Cerberus (2005), and House
of the Dead 2 (2005), to name a few. She
has a great rapport with co-star Douglas and both keep the film moving along
even when the film gets convoluted in the third act.
The film is never dull and there
is enough to be had in the film to appease both the horror and sci-fi fans.
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