The characters themselves all work for the film. We find ourselves caring for the likes Jennifer and Nicholas ( Noah Taylor) and the acting is all pretty solid too, with the performances helping to ground the scares and add some validity and levity to proceedings. However, it’s Raven‘s The Miller that is by far the most superior of the characters. He is a truly menacing and terrifying antagonist and you find yourself really on edge and tense every time he appears. But more than that, he is also an intriguing character with more nuance and depth than most bland, disposable slashers. Bad dialogue, bad script, bad acting, bad premise, bad pacing, bad delivery, boring development and incredibly bad production. The music sounded like it came from a better film that could be taken seriously. It also manages to tell a 'Repent or Die' story without coming off as preachy, which is quite an accomplishment if you look at righteous little pieces of work like The Suffering and The Binding. Kudos for that.

A bus full of tourists, all hiding their own secrets, embarks on a tour of Holland’s finest countryside and windmills. After an unfortunate breakdown the passengers on-board find themselves without power and being preyed upon by the mysterious ‘Miller’ ( Kenan Raven), who is out for blood and looking to kill. Can our heroine Jennifer ( Charlotte Beaumont), and her new friends survive the night? The film is an action-thriller spectacle set in a dystopian world. When Boy’s (Bill Skarsgård) family is murdered by the city’s brutal leader, he escapes to the jungle where he is trained by a mysterious shaman for one purpose — to avenge his family and kill the leader. The Mole: coach driver Abe is actually an agent of the Miller, delivering souls to him, and referring to him as "Master".On paper The Windmill Massacre brings many of the genre tropes and slasher film cliches you’d expect but it also breaks conventions. The women keep their clothes on and do more than just scream, and our cast of oddballs range in age and race, refreshingly they aren’t the usual sexy college students. Japandering: Fading model Ruby had apparently made a career of this in Japan before a scandal forced her to return to Europe. Finn Wolfhard wrote and directed the upcoming movie alongside Billy Bryk ( Ghostbusters: Afterlife), with both actors also starring in the film. The cast also includes Fred Hechinger ( Fear Street 1994), as well as D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (“Reservation Dogs”), Abby Quinn (“Mad About You”), and Pardis Saremi (“Career Opportunities in Murder and Mayhem ”).

I have to take points off for our heroine's sub-par acting at times. She's the star of the film but doesn't seem to have an awful lot of variety in her facial expressions. The marine, for instance, gives a much better performance.Jennifer is an Australian girl on the run from her past who washes up in Amsterdam. In a desperate attempt to stay one step ahead of the authorities, she joins a coach-load of tourists embarking on a tour of Holland's world famous windmills. When the bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, she and the other tourists are forced to seek shelter in a disused shed beside a sinister windmill where, legend has it, a Devil-worshiping miller once ground the bones of locals instead of grain. As members of the group start to disappear, Jennifer learns that they all have something in common - a shared secret that seems to mark them all for doom. a b "MONDAY 29TH - WORLD PREMIERE – THE WINDMILL MASSACRE". London FrightFest Film Festival . Retrieved 2017-08-31. a b c d e Lowe, Justin (2016-10-27). " 'The Windmill': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 2017-08-31.

Well this is not a great film but not bad either. Horror fans may like it. Slasher fans will enjoy it more. It has shades of Hatchet part one, Jeepers Creepers part one. Some solid gore n killings. Larry Charles ( Borat) conducts an uproarious musical-comedy riff on The Parent Trap that follows a pair of identical twins who conspire to reunite their divorced and disturbingly deranged parents (Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally).Now, Doomhead and friends from 31 can be yours to own! Well, on a T-Shirt, at least, courtesy of Fright Rags. Also in today's Horror Highlights: The Windmill and Yoga Hosers release details. Language Barrier: All of Takashi's dialogue is in untranslated Japanese, indicating that he doesn't speak English or Dutch; the common languages of the other characters. When Ruby is present, she is able to translate (although her Japanese is implied to be rusty, and she frequently has to ask him to slow down). When Ruby is not present, Jennifer is reduced to mime and guesswork to work out what he is saying, which is not easy when he needs to convey information on complex topics like guilt and repentance.