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Harpoon (2019)

Harpoon played for exactly one night, once, and at the cheapest theater in the city. It’s too late for me to tell the rest of the people who sat next to me if they should see it but if I could go back and time and tell other moviegoers to check it out? Would I? It’s heavily flawed and tonally inconsistent - even for a horror-comedy - but comes together in the end.

Richard (Christopher Gray), his girlfriend Sasha (Emily Tyra), and best friend Jonah (Munro Chambers) decide to bury the hatchet after a misunderstanding by going on Ricard’s yacht for the weekend. After his jealous suspicions about Sasha and Jonah prove to be true, things get out of control. Next thing you know, all their supplies have been thrown overboard, the radio’s been destroyed and the engine… won’t start.

The picture begins on a wobbly foot that’s stepped on shards of glass and is left shredded and unappealing. You don’t like ANY of the characters. Richard’s the kind of psycho douchebag who'll beat up his “best friend” because he SUSPECTS he’s been sleeping with Sasha. What kind of friend takes that? Jonah’s a spineless loser. If he can’t realize this friendship is toxic, maybe he deserves it. As for Sasha, either she cheated on her boyfriend with his best friend, or she’s the kind of woman whose only course of action when the violent beatdown begins is to meekly yell and slap the aggressor with her purse. These three are best friends? They have NOTHING in common. On the upside, it establishes the trio as perfectly deserving of each other. You just want them to suffer horrible shark and/or harpoon-related deaths. I’ll give the picture credit for obliterating any pathos we’d normally have for them, but the scenario just isn’t funny enough -, not until about the last third - to be worth it.

These cinematic equivalents of swallowing a ball of sandpaper - without a glass of water to wash it down - become more entertaining once they’ve landed themselves in a pickle and their survival skills kick in. They hardly have any. It’s one stupid decision after another, and these do make for a few morbid laughs. It’s a low-budget film but it looks fine overall. The performances are decent. Some decisions by director Rob Grant I could’ve done without - such as the use of a narrator (by Brett Gelman) to insert more gags throughout. It doesn’t fit with the rest of the film, which only focusses on the 3 characters.

Harpoon isn’t consistently funny but it the right amount of gory. There are a few laughs, which show it had more potential than this. If it had been edited down to the length of an episode of Tales from the Crypt, it’d be a winner. I suppose I can nonetheless recommend it as something you’d watch as a rental for the ending. (Theatrical version on the big screen, October 7, 2019)

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Credits: @brutalposters_ Credits: @arrowvideo We are happy to announce @brutalposters_ as the winner of our HARPOON reverse art competition! A massive thank you to all the entrants and the impressive talent that was showcased! A gallery of runners up and honourable mentions can be found on our website @harpoonmovie @epicpicturesgroup (em Brasil - Rio De Janeiro) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMsPc5jlLsV/?igshid=ogsai811gmxm

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Harpoon - movie teaser trailer: https://teaser-trailer.com/movie/harpoon/

written and directed by Rob Grant and starring Munro Chambers, Emily Tyra, and Christopher Gray

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Fantasia Festival 2019: Harpoon (2019)

Fantasia Festival 2019: Harpoon (2019) #Fantasia2019 #HarpoonMovie #Canadian #Movie #Film #Review

Harpoon (2019)

Director: Rob Grant

Cast: Munro Chambers, Christopher Gray, Emily Tyra, Brett Gelman

Harpoon is a 2019 Canadian dark comedy horror film about three friends who need to set aside their differences to survive being stranded when the yacht breaks down in the middle of the ocean.

Harpoon starts in a fairly dark comedy way introducing its film with a snarky narrator (Brett Gelman).…

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Fantasia Festival 2019: Harpoon (2019)

Fantasia Festival 2019: Harpoon (2019) #Fantasia2019 #HarpoonMovie #Canadian #Movie #Film #Review

Harpoon (2019)

Director: Rob Grant

Cast: Munro Chambers, Christopher Gray, Emily Tyra, Brett Gelman

Harpoon is a 2019 Canadian dark comedy horror film about three friends who need to set aside their differences to survive being stranded when the yacht breaks down in the middle of the ocean.

Harpoon starts in a fairly dark comedy way introducing its film with a snarky narrator (Brett Gelman).…