Product Details

• Actors: Joan Plowright, Hugh Bonneville, Tamsin Egerton, Natalie Press, Jamie Harris
• Directors: Anthony Hickox
• Producers: Knife Edge
• Format: Import, PAL, Widescreen
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: ScanBox
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002W5GKCI

Editorial Reviews

United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Horror starring Natalie Press as Emma, a successful career woman, who gives up Wall Street to live the quiet life in the English countryside with her husband and son. But her plans for a peaceful existence are soon disturbed when the house starts trying to communicate with her. Plagued by frightening visions and horrifying occurrences, Emma becomes hysterical and finds herself convinced the woods at the bottom of the garden hold the answers to the house's secret. As the story unfolds it is unclear whether it is Emma's paranoia that is causing her imagination to run wild or if the house is in fact hiding a deep dark secret... ...Knife Edge

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not as bad as all that!, December 20, 2011

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MommaMia - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Knife Edge (DVD)

I've read other reviews and have to respectfully disagree. This movie is not as bad as all that!

Granted I didn't know any of the actors, except for Joan Plowright (who I adore, by the way), but overall, they didn't do a bad job at all. Some of the dialogue seemed contrived, yet what movie doesn't have a line or two that doesn't make you tilt your head and wonder what they were thinking when the wrote it?

Overall, a suspenseful mood is set, lighting, props, atmosphere, all were used to the greatest advantage and there were several moments that really made me jump.

I think this movie is definitely worth a viewing. It's not horrible at all. It's not the greatest story ever told, but if you are looking for a good suspenseful scare, this just might be it. If I were you, I'd ignore the nay-sayers and give it a try. Make up your own mind.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great Cast - But an Average Story, March 30, 2010

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Compay (New Orleans, LA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Knife Edge (DVD)

Knife Edge is an average psychological horror film. And it shouldn't be, considering the cast. What immediately caught my attention was that it starred the lovely Natalie Press, whom I previously enjoyed in Fifty Dead Men Walking. Add award-winning actress Joan Plowright into the mix, and you have the potential for a terrific movie.

The problem? The story isn't very original. The "spooky home with a secret" concept has simply been overdone. The scariest elements of the film either borrow from different movies (the Orphanage, Changeling), or are recycled from others. How many films feature a scene where someone opens a medicine cabinet, grabs what they need, and closes it only to be surprised by what's in the reflection? Yet a veteran horror director still chose to include such a scene in this movie.

The film doesn't grab your attention until it reaches the halfway mark, and it doesn't gain steam until the final 15 minutes. Some of the earlier clues in the film also make the conclusion fairly predictable.

I wanted to enjoy this movie given the cast, but it simply brought nothing new to the table as far as psychological horror films go. Watch it once before deciding to buy the DVD.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Ugh, August 7, 2011

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Brian (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Knife Edge (DVD)

What a mess. This pastiche of murder-mystery/psychological-thriller/haunted-house cliches tries to coast along on autopilot, its disjointed, psuedo-Hitchcockian plot borrowing greedily from an array of superior sources ('Gaslight,' 'The Shining' and any of various takes on 'The Turn of the Screw' most obviously), but gets bogged down by a muddled script, indecisive pacing and an overabundance of hand-me-down images and characters that seem not to know which genre they belong to. The dialogue, especially in scenes that require a shade of jargonistic authenticity (e.g., the opener at the Wall Street brokerage, Henri's urgent business dealings and the legal jockeying for control of the son's trust), is weak and so follows the bulk of the acting. Perhaps the creators thought they couldn't miss if they tossed enough familiar ingredients into the stew-- well, with the exception of some slick photography, they missed the pot altogether. 1 1/2 stars.

If you're in the market for a satisfyingly atmospheric supernatural mystery/thriller, check out 1995's 'Haunted,' 1981's 'The Changeling,' 1973's 'Don't Look Now' or 1961's 'The Innocents.'