Triangle is promoted as a horror flick, and it didn’t even get a US theatrical release, dooming it to obscurity.  The poster implies a terrifying thrill ride.

There’s a crazy with a bloody axe on the cover, for heaven’s sake.  Everything says, “cheap slasher flick.”

This is miserable marketing in the highest degree.

Admittedly, cheap slasher flicks do more box office than Triangle did, so I can see how they might have thought pretending that’s what it was might have sold some tickets.

Alas, it fails miserably to deliver the terror and gore. This is only a bad thing if that’s what you’re looking for. If you’d rather have a thoughtful, somewhat eggheaded mystery, you’re in luck.

Admittedly, people who like movies that make you think are in limited supply.  But hey, I’m one of them, so I dug it.

I’m not going to ruin the story.  Some people suffer misfortune on a sailing trip, and end up having a miserable time.  This is no gore-fest, but it’s got some violence, and is probably too complicated for kids, even if they’re as desensitized to blood as mine are.

Anyway, pleasant surprise.  I think the most underappreciated movie of 2009.