Retreat Page #3

Synopsis: In a last-ditch attempt to save their failing marriage after the stillbirth of their first child, Kate, a journalist, and Martin, an architect, escape London for a retreat to the beautiful, yet remote and unpopulated Blackholme Island, which is off the west coast of Scotland. Fairweather Cottage is a place where they once shared a romantic holiday and the island holds fond memories of happier times. Kate and Martin arrive by boat, it's autumn and the rocky barren moors are blown by freezing winds and the before they've even settled in, the generator and CB radio communication start to fail. Their relationship is already fragile and anxieties are pushed higher when they lose all contact with the mainland and after a heavy storm, an injured man is washed up on the shore. Dressed in military fatigues and carrying a gun, the mysterious stranger regains consciousness and identifies himself as a British soldier called Private Jack Corman and he soon reveals that he carries a deadly message -
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Carl Tibbetts
Production: Samuel Goldwyn Films
 
IMDB:
5.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
73%
R
Year:
2011
90 min
Website
319 Views


I don't wanna have to hurt anyone.

- What's going on?

- It's fine, Kate.

Come here.

Just come. Come here.

- Martin, you're shaking!

- He can hear.

He's just told me there's a disease

out there, a pandemic.

- It's killing everybody...

- What?!

He's got to seal the place up.

That's what he told me.

- He has to seal the house up against it.

- OK, enough.

- Look... Kate!

Hey!

We would know if there was a disease.

Doug would have come and told us.

Hopefully, for his sake, he's been

sealing up his house like everyone else.

This is bullshit.

This is bullshit!

If you want to go, go.

But do it before I seal this place up.

Once that door is shut...

it's not opening again.

He's f***ing crazy.

We should just get our things and go.

Kate...

I have no idea what is actually

going on out there.

All that I know...

is that for the moment

we are stuck on this island.

We're surrounded by freezing water

and there's nowhere else to go.

I want to go home.

And I'm not staying here with him.

We have that.

We have his gun.

Now all we can do is play along

and keep him sweet

until I can figure out

exactly what's going on.

Because I don't want to see

anybody get hurt.

Martin!

Martin!

Morning.

Kettle's on if you want some tea.

- This is Kate of Fairweather Cottage.

Doug, this is Kate...

The battery works but it's not receiving

anything. I checked it last night.

Doug? This is Martin and Kate.

Do you read us? Over.

I'll need to take a look at that generator

as well because your power's out.

- Why have you barricaded the door?

- To stop people bringing the infection.

I thought it was against

the risk of a virus.

Everything we do here

is to minimize the risk,

not just of the virus

but of people trying to escape it.

I was gonna ask you, do you have

any weapons in the house?

- Hunting rifle, anything like that?

- No.

Anything we can use

to defend ourselves?

No, we don't have

anything like that here.

Then I'm gonna have to improvise.

Get something out of that

and give me a hand.

And the tinned food in the kitchen

needs organizing.

Martin!

How do you know that we haven't got it?

We've been outside.

You don't have it.

That f***er doesn't hang around.

- You breathe it in, you cough it out.

- That's the first symptom? A cough?

Uh-huh. You breathe the microbes

into your lungs,

they attack the host cells, which is you.

You cough those out and then

the rest comes out as liquid.

We just...

We need to contact our families.

We need to...

You said you'd fix the CB.

There's nothing out there

for you any more.

Now I need your help. You can start

by sorting the food in the kitchen.

Go f*** yourself!

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