Film Review: Triangle (15)

Oct 16 2009 Liverpool Daily Post

THE circle of life is a giant Moebius strip in Christopher Smith’s disorienting third feature.

Clinging onto some of the horror conventions from his previous films (Creep, Severance), the Bristol-born writer-director tries out his sea legs as he spins an intentionally ambiguous yarn guaranteed to have audiences scratching their heads.

Similarities to the 2007 Spanish thriller Timecrimes, written and directed by Nacho Vigalondo, are inescapable, right down to the time-bending plot and the use of a sack mask to conceal the killer’s true identity.

Single mother Jess agrees to a day trip on a yacht called Triangle with Greg, his hunky room mate Victor and friends Downey and Sally and singleton Heather.

The boat is caught in a storm but the friends are rescued by a deserted 1930s ocean liner.

However, for once, it’s storytelling which holds our attention, teasing and tantalising long after the credits roll.