Death Tunnel (2005)

Why so much hype?

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

I've seen plenty of bad movies, plenty of them are B-movies, but it's safe to say that DEATH TUNNEL is the ultimate nadir of the genre, one of the worst films I've seen in a long time. The only interesting thing about the movie is that it takes place in a real-world building with a sinister history far more frightening than anything in the film, but unsurprisingly the writers and producers fail to capitalise on this connection.Instead, DEATH TUNNEL becomes a film that causes excruciating pain as it progresses. Both writing and direction (from the 'Booth Brothers') are exceptionally poor, with the narrative involving various porn-looking actresses wandering around in flimsy attire and calling to each other. Meanwhile, the director goes all out with his flashy, headache-inducing, MTV-style editing, making each and every sequence a real mess to look at.For some reason, the narrative jumps all over the place in time, throwing in constant flashbacks and the like so that the cast are still being introduced about halfway through the film. Then there are the inevitable death sequences, which are lame in the extreme, along with gratuitous nudity from the silicon-enhanced actresses taking part. Not that these people can be called actors, not really; I've seen better acting from my local pantomime group. Each and every thing about DEATH TUNNEL makes it a hopeless mess, a production that absolutely nobody could like.

The idea seemed interesting so I gave this one a go. Little did I know that Death Tunnel would be one of the biggest wastes of time I've had. The concept promised much, but other than a haunting setting the movie delivered next to nothing. Death Tunnel is very over-edited, making it incomprehensible to see what it's going on and it cheapens any scares the film has. Which is actually not saying much, the lack of atmosphere and the increasingly predictable jump scares mean that Death Tunnel just isn't scary. The dialogue is of stilted quality, the characters are incredibly obnoxious, the pace is dull and the story doesn't make any sense. As for the acting, what acting, everyone seems to have forgotten their acting lessons. So all in all, a terrible movie that failed utterly to live up to any potential it initially had. 1/10 Bethany Cox

This has to be the worst movie I have ever seen. From beginning to end the movie was unimaginative and uninspired. The plot made little to no sense, and I can honestly say there was nothing scary about it. I generally love the horror genre, regardless of budget or quality of acting. However, I found nothing enjoyable about this film. There was just nothing interesting about "Death Tunnel". I feel like I watched a 90 minute film where literally nothing happened. The movie could have been 20 minutes and they still could have fit in all the action that took place in "Death Tunnel". The characters were boring and the editing was awful. I just don't understand why the director decided to flash random pictures of sick/dead people during scenes where they had nothing to do with the story.Please don't see this movie!

Here is a movie that actually makes very little sense. In all honesty, I don't know were to begin to explain why this movie is so horrible and why you should never watch it, or come as much as 5 feet close to it.The only thing that this movie is good for is serving as an example on how not to make a movie. It's a typical new-age horror flick, that I admit is good looking but never succeeds in becoming tense, scary, or even understandable.The movie has some extremely poor story-telling. The movie is all over the place and it switched back and forth between the past and present. Halve of the time this really isn't serving a purpose for the movie its story and it only becomes more and more annoying. It suffers from its totally horrible editing. All they were caring about with its editing is how stylish and cool it would all look. They seem to don't realize however that editing plays an essential part for the movie its storytelling.Just imaging this movie being an 90 minute lone trailer that just randomly puts on ghostly images and extreme fast cuts. It's all so totally random and it absolute makes no sense. It makes the story totally uninteresting and above all things also really ridicules. There is just very little that makes sense in this movie.But above all things, with all the fancy stuff jumping around on the screen, there is actually very little happening in the movie. It's a lack-lusting movie and it's true that the movie is one because of its very messy overall story-telling.It of course also isn't a too original movie and it borrows heavily from lots of other popular genre movies. Quite funny that the movie in the beginning claims that it's based on actual true events. Well, it's true that the white plague excised and the hospital in the movie is also real but that's about it really. Of course no ghost ever came back from the death and came to haunt a bunch of teenagers, well I at least think that that was the story was all about but I can't be sure since it was such a big mess to watch. 2/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/