![]() ![]() A lot of the angles and shots were weird and disorienting too, although I could see what they were trying to achieve. I wish that I could say more about the cinematography and camera work, but I found it to be quite dull and uninspired despite the forest setting. Miraculously, Josh also survives because he had 6 hours to live after the snake bite and he only had to wait 5 hours and 59 minutes for the antidote. For some reason, none of the very heavy mud is actually on her and she just looks wet. In a feat of astonishing agility against the very heavy mud, Sofia is then able to use her upper body strength to lob a lasso (made of a 15kg dead boa constrictor and other bits and pieces) over a rock and pull herself out of the pit. She is likewise very fortunate to be able to conduct neck surgery on Josh to remove a blood clot after he is bitten by a snake. They are initially unable to move their arms above the very heavy mud but luckily, Josh is able to reach into his pants and retrieve a bottle of vodka when Sofia gets attacked by fire ants. They very conveniently find a dead man in the hole and are able to raid his entire MacGyver kit. The husband decides to jump in after her and then they are both doomed. They encounter a violent attacker, escape into the one place they've been warned against, and the wife lands in quicksand. In short: married couple are getting a divorce, they inexplicably go for a hike in the woods. This was partly due to the bare bones of a plot. I enjoyed Allan Hawco in The Breach but neither Hawco nor Gaitán had much to work with here. Sofia and Josh argue in every scene but the audience is never given insight into who they are as people or what caused the breakdown of their relationship. If you've ever sat at a table while a couple bickered and aired their dirty laundry in public, then you'll be familiar with the primary dynamic of Quicksand. Turn away now if you haven't watched Quicksand. Spoiler alert: I need to talk about this film and I'm going to dive straight into some key plot points and outcomes below. I’m also conscious that there is a subset of horror fans who watch films because they get bad reviews and also horror fans who read reviews because they want to vent about a film.With that said. I'm always conscious that there are human beings behind every project and horror, especially, needs our indulgence and willing suspension of disbelief, but Quicksand was not my cup of tea. They might have escaped their pursuer but the couple land up in quicksand and need to use every survival skill they have to save themselves. On the run and desperate, they escape into Las Arenas, the very part of the forest that locals are too afraid to go into. When a storm moves in and they try to return to their car, they have a violent encounter with an armed man. They are in the throes of a divorce yet decide to take a hike together to find the La Chorrera waterfall. Sofia (Carolina Gaitán, Encanto) and Josh (Allan Hawco, The Breach) travel to Colombia to attend a conference. Andres Beltran's Quicksand had me shaking my head from the very beginning, first because of the arrogance of our unlikeable protagonists and then because it defied logic. ![]() Who knows? Maybe the linger of death will bring these two back together romantically.After 125 years of horror films, you'd think people would know the basics: never, ever ignore local knowledge of dangerous places and never follow someone else into certain death, no matter how much you love them. The couple will have to work together (assuming with little to no help from others) to escape and survive the situation that they are in. The rain could increase the water level and make the sand rise higher. ![]() Anything could be living in the quicksand, ready to strike at the couple. Not only are they trapped in the thick muck known as quicksand, but they are also vulnerable to the dangers of the jungle. Quite the adventurous tale between a disgruntled couple. Unable to move, it becomes a struggle for survival as they battle the elements of the jungle and a venomous snake in order to escape.” While on a hike through the rainforest, a storm causes them to become trapped in a pit of quicksand. “ Quicksand stars Carolina Gaitán ( Encanto) and Allan Hawco ( Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) as an American couple on the brink of divorce who travel to the country for a work conference. This is the official synopsis of the movie: ![]()
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