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Oct 4, 2019 · “Harpoon” begins life on dry land, though, as it introduces its three key figures. Jonah (Munro Chambers) and Richard (Christopher Gray) are best friends, although they couldn’t be more different. Jonah is an average-looking, middle-class sad sack who’s in the process of packing up his parents’ house after their deaths.
Oct 8, 2019 · To misappropriate 16th century political philosopher Thomas Hobbes’ most famous utterance, Harpoon is “nasty, brutish and short”. But in a good way – a very good way! And while it’s not a deep dive, chin-stroking treatise, neither is it shallow-end fluff.
- Rob Grant
Harpoon: Directed by Rob Grant. With Munro Chambers, Chris Gray, Emily Tyra, Brett Gelman. Rivalries, dark secrets, and sexual tension emerge when three best friends find themselves stranded on a yacht in the middle of the ocean desperate for survival.
- (6.3K)
- Comedy, Horror, Thriller
- Rob Grant
- 2019-10-08
- “The Sea Finds Out Everything You’Ve Done wrong.”
- Diverting Direction & Control
- Harpoon Reels You Into A Stomach-Churning Boat Trip
The film opens to Gelman’s blunt narration, which operates as a sustained dark comedy mechanism while also categorically expressing the levels of friendship: The friendship of utility (like a co-worker), the friendship of pleasure, and friendship of the good (mutual respect). As Gelman enlightens us during the first few minutes, Grant goes on to li...
In this brisk 80-minute horror-comedy, you’ll squirm and smirk, laugh and gasp. Grant’s execution is consistently self-aware: Sasha references Edgar Allan Poe and the Life of Pi, while Jonah cites the original tale of Richard Parker’s bad luck. By no means are the literary references subtle, they aren’t supposed to be, but they’re also introduced a...
The stability between black comedy and horror does get a bit muddled in the end — as the tonal movements become abrupt — but it’s still continually amusing. Rob Grant’s Harpoon is a mean-spirited genre film, meshing lurid blood splatter, contumelious repartee and mental deterioration. Richard, Jonah and Sasha are caught in a love triangle, heading ...
- Andrew Stover
Writer-director Rob Grant’s viciously funny horror comedy Harpoon, about three “friends” marooned on a drifting yacht with no food or water, explores the toxic relationships between the wealthy Richie, his girlfriend Sasha, and their friend Jonah.
Harpoon is a 2019 Canadian horror comedy film written and directed by Rob Grant. The film stars Munro Chambers, Emily Tyra, and Christopher Gray, and is about three best friends who become stranded on a yacht in the middle of the ocean. [4]
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Jan 10, 2020 · Harpoon is best described as Dead Calm meets Alive. It follows Jonah (Munro Chambers), Sasha (Emily Tyra), and Richard (Christopher Gray)— a trio of unlikable friends with some serious issues who do horrible things to one another for roughly eighty-two minutes.
