The Loch Ness Horror (2023) Review

The Loch Ness Horror (2023) Review

A submarine vanishing prompts a rescue operation that comes face to face with the cause -The Loch Ness Monster. Having escaped the Loch, it is now unleashing decades of pent-up aggression on all those it encounters. In a fight for survival, our team of rescue operatives must overcome the terrors both beneath them and within their ranks.

In September this year my partner dragged me along to Chatham’s Historic Dockyard for a tour of some of the exterior locations used in TV’s CALL THE MIDWIFE. As part of that tour, we embarked upon HM Submarine Ocelot (there’s absolutely no room to swing a cat around on there, not that I would ever try that or recommend doing so either) as well as CA-class destroyer HMS Cavalier, a boat that features heavily in THE LOCH NESS HORROR.

THE LOCH NESS HORROR, written and directed by Tyler-James, which is neither set at Loch Ness nor has much in the way of any horror, is a B-movie bereft of any B-movie thrills. The cast are earnest and give it their all but both the script, which has a kind of ALIEN/ALIENS rift in that the company sending them out under the illusion that it’s a rescue mission when it’s more about finding out more about the beast, and the direction lack any life and it unfortunately plays out on one-note throughout.

It’s yet another release from Dark Asylum Films, who seem to be on a bit of a roll lately, and there a couple of familiar faces starring from their usual cannon of actors. Rob Kirtley gets more to do here than he was allowed in MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB. Kirtley has a strong onscreen presence and deserves to feature as a lead rather than in support. Another studio regular May Kelly is called upon to do much the same as she was in both WINNIE THE POOH: BLOOD AND HONEY, MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB and THREE BLIND MICE (all 2023). May Kelly has presence and can act so it would be great to see her offered a role that requires her to do more than just scream.