Beast

2017

Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller

24
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 92% · 144 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 75% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 18862 18.9K

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Plot summary

A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.

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Top cast

Johnny Flynn as Pascal Renouf
Emily Taaffe as Tamara
Tim Woodward as Fletcher
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919.16 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
R
24 fps
1 hr 47 min
Seeds 1
1.72 GB
1920*800
English 2.0
R
24 fps
1 hr 47 min
Seeds 15

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 6 / 10

Jessie Buckley pulls out all the stops here

Jessie Buckley pulls out all the stops here and offers us a really strong performance in what is otherwise a rather unremarkable thriller. She is "Moll" who lives a pretty unfulfilled life under the watchful gaze of her mother "Hilary" (Geraldine James). She hooks up with wide boy "Pascal" (Johnny Flynn - or Tom Burke?) whom many suspect to be behind a series of killings that have rocked their island community. Increasingly shunned by her family and friends, she finds herself embroiled in the police investigation led by "Harrison" (Oliver Maltman) - a man who is also keen on young "Moll" - and gradually she, like us, begins to doubt the probity of her boyfriend's dubious character. There is something fitting about the ending, but I am afraid I found the rest of this just a bit too procedural with the usual dose of familial discord failing to chime with me at all. Buckley stands out and James always brings a bit of gravitas when she is on screen, but the remainder left me underwhelmed and borderline disinterested. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood, but this really didn't do much for me at all. Sorry.
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Reviewed by tonypeacock-1 8 / 10

British independent cinema at its best

Psychological thriller set on the English Channel island of Jersey. It has an element of one of those 1970s low budget Tales Of The Unexpected/Bergerac directed by Pete Walker about it!

The film is centred around a young female character Moll (played by the excellent Jessie Buckley). Moll is a bit of an enigma. Unfairly upstaged by her relatives we see one such example at a supposed birthday party/BBQ being staged for her where she is gazumped by her sister in law announcing to everyone she is pregnant with twins.

Moll's history is revealed revealing a shocking childhood event. Her mother is domineering and controlling (Geraldine James) inadvertently treating Moll less favourably than her brother? Moll is left to babysit not only her nephew/niece but look after her I'll father who has some form of dementia. Anyway she cracks under the pressure leaving the party and getting drunk at a club. She forms an erotic friendship with a rather unfamiliar character Pascal (Johnny Flynn).

The friendship is met with dismay by her mother and upper class fraternity. All these events are taking place whilst Jersey is being terrorised by a serial killer. It transpires the 'rough' Pascal is one of the suspects at first unknown to Moll who is enjoying her sexual freedom. As the film progresses Moll learns of the police suspicions and herself has doubts as to Pascals involvement in the killings. That forms the backbone of the film. The viewer makes their own mind up.

British independent film just gets better and better in 2018. The low budget is counter balanced by the performances of the cast and haunting location photography of Jersey. (I never watched Bergerac!) The end of the film is even more shocking than the events that have taken place beforehand. Let's just say Moll isn't the sweet and innocent choir singer and coach tour guide seen at the start of the film.

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