CHRISTOPHER SMITH’S inventive and unsettling thriller Triangle is almost certain to become one of those talked-about, must-see cult favourites.

The British film, which has been well-reviewed but slipped under the radar at the box office when released last year, comes out on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on March 1.

Because it’s better if you don’t know too much about it first (although it’s still interesting to re-watch subsequently), I’m going to give only a scant account of the storyline.

Triangle packshot.jpgSmith’s previous directing credits include his entry in the slasher/gorno genre, Creep, (which was too visceral for my tastes); and a comedy horror flick in the form of Severance.

Thankfully, the filmmaker resorts more to atmosphere and suspense in Triangle, though there are shocks and violence along the way.

Filmed in Australia but set in Florida, the basic premise is that struggling single mum Jess (Melissa George) cannot shake the feeling that something is wrong when she agrees to go on a sailing trip with a group of friends.

The yacht encounters unusual weather and then a seemingly deserted ocean liner, with Jess’s nagging unease and growing feeling of deja vu moving inexorably towards a horrible realisation.

Jess has an autistic son Tommy, played by Joshua McIvor. Joining her on the boat are her boyfriend Greg (Michael Dorman), young sailor Victor (Liam Hemsworth), married couple Downey and Sally (Henry Nixon and Rachael Carpani) and Sally’s friend Heather (Emma Lung). (Superhero fans should know that Liam is the brother of Chris Hemsworth, who is playing Thor in Kenneth Branagh’s film, and had also auditioned for that role).

When I first saw this release, I was bothered by oddities in events and behaviour near the start of the film – which seemed at the time to be done purely for effect – but rest assured they are accounted for by the time the credits roll.

If, however, you’re looking to be spoonfed with exact explanations, you won’t find them. Revel in the abstract atmospherics instead. You’ll become aware of what is going on but Triangle leaves you thinking, making you ponder what could happen next (within the film and after it finishes) and rewind your mind over what you have just seen. In that respect, it’s refreshing and a great discussion piece for film fans.

A Greek mythological reference gives a sort of hint to the goings-on while there are nuances of The Shining and also of other ghost-ship tales on occasion.

With its title taken from the name of the yacht, and also undoubtedly a reference to the Bermuda Triangle, this maritime mystery is well worth investigating.

Director and screenwriter Christopher Smith said: “I have always loved movies that play with structure and time, like Memento and Reservoir Dogs. And I wanted to employ those techniques in a psychological thriller narrative.

“The idea came first and then I had to write a story and the characters around the concept – a Twilight Zone idea really.

“I’ve grown up loving horror movies but I wanted this to be something more than that. It doesn’t work just to scare you; it also works to make the audience really think.”

Melissa George’s previous credits include 30 Days of Night, the remake of The Amityville Horror, Dark City, Mulholland Drive, Derailed and a memorable guest appearance as a lesbian nanny in Friends.

Special features on the DVD and Blu-ray include: The Making of Triangle, Audio commentary with director Christopher Smith; three storyboards; deleted scenes; competition winners poster design; The Storm special effects featurette.

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I just added a couple more stills and 1 poster for Melissa’s movie Triangle and I added some on set photos of Melissa filming her new movie Swinging with the Finkels. Enjoy!

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Chris Smith’s Triangle, starring Melissa George, is taking a leap across the pond for a U.S. DVD and Blu-Ray release. First Look Studios picked up domestic distribution rights and plans to give the thriller a debut on February 2, 2010.

Smith directed the underground creature feature Creep and Severance. George plays a woman on board an ocean liner she swears she’s been on before. In addition to the deja vu, she’s being stalked by a masked killer.

I want to thank Melissa George Fans over at Livejournal for the heads up. As mentioned there, nobody’s sure whether or not this is actually legit, but it sounds like it. Hopefully Triangle does get released then because I’m so excited to see it! I’ll see if I can find some more information about this.

Melissa George has revealed she cried all day to make her eyes blood-shot for her new movie.

The former Home And Away actress plays Jess in psychological thriller Triangle, who suffers a mental breakdown after being stranded on board a ship in a storm, and she needed to look tired and drained for the part.

The 33-year-old said: “I wanted to make my eyes look really demented, like she’s been living for like 200 years without sleeping and I think I achieved that – it was very hard, but there was something freeing about playing the role.”

The actress went on: “I was sitting in that film thinking I haven’t seen an actress doing a part like that or had that much screen time in a long time, so it was great to do that kind of film.”

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Chris Smith’s Bermuda Triangle thriller, aptly titled Triangle, coasts into England on October 16. And courtesy of Empire magazine, here’s a clip featuring star Melissa George on a cruise ship being stalked by a masked person with a gun. (Click on the title above for a full synopsis.)

Smith previously directed Severance and Creep; he’s currently at work on Black Death. Triangle should be hitting our shores early next year.

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Up-and-coming British writer director Christopher Smith made a cheapo horror debut with Creep, followed by a cheeky black comedy in Severance. Now he moves in the direction of psychological thriller, with mixed results.

He certainly succeeds in creating an atmosphere of mounting horror and psychological breakdown, as a stressed- out single mum (Melissa George) goes on the sailing trip to hell, encountering a storm that capsizes her boat and a sinister cruise ship where the crew has disappeared, all the clocks have stopped and a mysterious sniper is on the

The final scenes of the movie are nonsensical and pretentious.

George gives a strong performance, but the script never gives her character sufficient depth – all we really know about her is that she loves her very autistic son.

I think Smith is trying to liken the bringing up of a disabled child to the unending labours of Sisyphus, but he doesn’t bring off his central metaphor.

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The latest offering from director Christopher Smith (Creep, Severance) is a twisty-turny time bending horror set aboard a mysterious cruise liner. Melissa George stars as Jess, a young woman with an autistic son who meets up with her friend Greg to go sailing with a party on his boat. Things take a turn for the worse when an electrical storm hits their ship, smashing it to tinder and leaving them stranded. When a ghostly cruise liner shows up, the group board the apparently deserted vessel, and that’s when things start to get interesting…

What follows is a convoluted series of events that touch on familiar facets of time travel theory and mythology. As in the recent Spanish thriller Timecrimes we are witness to key events several different times, from a slightly different perspective each time, as our heroine tries vainly to alter the tragic events that befall her and her friends.

Having premiered at Frightfest this year, with Timecrimes taking its bow the year before, Smith was at pains to point out that he had come up with the idea four years previously. However Triangle does feel like something of a diet version and shares too much with its Spanish cousin (even down to the “villain” wearing a sack to disguise their features). The inevitable comparisons are a shame because otherwise the film is trying hard to be original and distinctive.

Melissa George has always been an actress I’ve enjoyed watching, and she is very good in this, taking on multiple versions of her character, each slightly different as they’re weighed down by knowledge of what’s to come, and what’s happening. I was particularly impressed with the scenes bookending the movie that take place in her quiet, suburban home. It’s here, as a violent, abusive mother, that she displays the best acting I’ve seen from her, and indeed in any recent horror, with the possible exception of Martyrs.

Triangle contains some great imagery (one scene in particular will stay with you for a while), and benefits from effective sound design, not least the unusually impactful gunshots, all of which adds to the film’s few geniunely scary moments – the woman next to me jumped out of her skin a couple of times.

Overall, Triangle feels like it falls under the weight of its own logic, and at times the timeline and concurrent events don’t make all that much sense. This isn’t for the Final Destination crowd, it’s more interesting and intelligent than that, but it doesn’t quite fulfil its ambition.

Our Rating: B-

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Hey everybody! As you can tell, there has been like no updates on here for awhile. I just haven’t had the time to update, but I’m now full of time and I will try and update everyday. I just added a couple of Triangle stills and some posters too. Enjoy!

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Melissa George doesn’t believe her new horror film Triangle is scary.

The Grey’s Anatomy actress stars in the Bermuda Triangle-themed psychological thriller – directed by Christopher Smith – as Jess, who suffers a mental breakdown after being stranded on board a ship in a storm.

Melissa revealed: “Really, it’s a journey of a woman with different levels of sanity, she could have schizophrenia, she could be just purely demented – but no I didn’t feel like the movie turned out to be a scary film.”

The 33-year-old Australian actress added: “I think it’s more like a woman trying to figure out where she’s just been and why is everything she’s just seen something she has seen before. So I think that’s more what I spent the movie doing… trying to make each Jess correlate and make them all work.”

Melissa has worked on several horror movies, including 30 days Of Night with Josh Hartnett, and revealed she’d like to do a costume drama next.

She said: “I’d like to do a period piece like a nice sort of Charles Dickens novel thing, after they see Triangle then they certainly won’t put me in that but I’ll try my best. They didn’t thing that I was funny either but they put me in Swinging With The Finkles so that was good. But I would like to do a nice sort of 1920s or 18th century or something like that.”

:: Triangle is released in the UK on October 16.