A family take a vacation to a remote Swedish island named Svalta only to find that a serial killer is on the loose.

Richard (Nick Frost) and Susan (Aisling Bea) take their grown children Sam (Sebastian Croft) and Jessie (Maisie Ayres) to Svalta during the once every ten years festival of Karantan. A festival that remembers an incident two-hundred-years ago when the island was placed into forced quarantine due to a flu pandemic and some grisly acts of cannibalism took place. The locals however do not take kindly to outsiders on their island at such a sacred time. Especially when they discover Susan is related to one of the British Officers who took part in the slaughter all those years ago.

The weirdness goes both ways though. The island’s matriarch is keen on the idea of being able to do some real sacrifices now there are interlopers whilst the family’s Air BnB host is clearly creepy in more ways than one. Nothing seems to phase the family though and they have their own peculiarities as well.

Get Away is a horror comedy written by and starring Nick Frost and just like the recent Strange Darling it attempts to take horror tropes and subvert them in a way that will keep fans of the genre on their toes. Get Away feels very much inspired by The Wicker Man and follows the trope of our protagonists being stuck in a remote location with a killer. Of course with Frost as writer there are many moments played for big laughs as well.

The overall result though is rather muted. Aisling Bea stands out as the funniest of the group and there is a good sequence set to Iron Maiden’s ‘Run to the Hills’. But in general the film’s eighty-six minutes drift by without really gripping you or making you more than chuckle.

If you enjoy Nick Frost’s slightly off-beat humour there may be something for you here. Otherwise it is fine without offering anything memorable.