Hayden Kane
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Juana
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
Philippa
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Leofwine_draca
One of a trio of unconnected war horrors (along with THE TRENCH and DEATHWATCH), this is a hugely atmospheric, spine-tingling chiller which seems to take its inspiration from THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. The result is a successfully scary story about some ghosts haunting old tunnels beneath a bunker, and the people trapped inside succumbing to paranoia, terror and eventually madness. A low-budget British production, this is thoroughly effective throughout from the nerve-clanging action beginning to the explanatory ending. Director Rob Green really fleshes out the cast with some accomplished young actors and strong characters for them to really get their teeth into. Really, there need to be more horror films made like this, then the genre wouldn't be so crappy as it is today. The film starts off very strongly with plenty of explosive dialogue, really creepy, waterlogged locations and actors you want to stay with.Relative unknown actors play the pivotal roles very well indeed, whilst Jason Flemying and Jack Davenport are also around to lend the gravitas needed. Once things move into the tunnels, not a lot really happens but that's the beauty of it: although there are no physical terrors, the psychological onslaught is overwhelming and extremely frightening. Scenes of tired, scared men fighting with rotting plague corpses and running from spectres in the mist are absolutely excellent, and the running time absolutely flies past without you realising it. The ending does go a little bit Hollywood with the appearance of a Jason-like unstoppable killer, but at the end of the day it stays on the right side of believable and the result is a deeply unsettling film.
Spikeopath
We are on the German/Belgian border in 1944 and a group of German soldiers are holed up in a bunker trying to survive. But just as they find a tunnel system underneath the bunker, and the enemies outside are closing in, they suspect that something very sinister is down there with them......One of the most frustrating British films I have watched in a very long time. You see there is a real great movie at its core, one that is desperately trying to get out, but instead of a top notch eerie thriller we get something that looks like a chopped together homage to John Carpenter. Definite shades of Carpenter's chiller, The Fog, and Russell Currie's great and creepy score sounding suspiciously like a reworking of Morricone's scoring for The Thing. The production is not helped by using an array of non German actors for this German soldier based picture. Much as i like Jason Flemying and Christopher Fairbank {my reasons for watching this film}, it's a bit of a stretch to accept them as German soldiers.With a better director than Rob Green at the helm, Clive Dawson's story could have been fully realised as a serious and dramatic horror film. Instead the end product comes off as something that was too big a task to handle, and sadly the nicely tuned atmosphere is lost amongst the insipid and unimaginative cop out that the film invariably is. 3/10
Anthony Pittore III (Shattered_Wake)
What I don't understand about this movie is the fact that the cover has skeletons in German uniform, and yet there is nothing even close that could allow such an image to represent your movie.This pisses me off.A lot.I despise when films misrepresent themselves, which is why I will give this a low rating. When you have a cover like that, you're expected to put on a HORROR film, not a very, very slow psychological thriller.Regardless of its actual quality (which is just barely 'ok,' mainly because of some very bad directing), this movie doesn't deserve to be seen because of its misleading of the consumers.Anyway, I only picked it up because I'm currently writing a WWII horror film, and wanted to see someone else's perspective of the same field.Oh well.3/10.-AP3-
Andrew Jakiel
The first thing that got my attention when I saw this movie on the shelf was the cover. Being located in the horror section I thought that this movie might provide a different outlet in a genre that is dominated by sequels and knockoffs of what is common right now (I can only imagine the amount of saw knockoffs that will be flooding the market in the next few years).But I was rather disappointed with the movie and am surprised how it got a decent rating on IMDb (are these people watching the same movie that I am or do they simply have relatives that star in this film?) The action wasn't too bad and the characters and their acting was better than what you would expect from a direct to video movie. But to classify this movie as horror is probably the biggest mistake that the director made. Now I'm not saying that it should be placed in the historical section of your local video store, but I can't honestly say that there was a moment when I was truly scared.There are some points of suspense but the director I believe fails to capitalize on this moments and get a jump out of the audience. I knew renting this movie that I wasn't going to be seeing a cult-classic or anything that was Oscar worthy but I was let down at the ending. I guess on the plus side I was never bored enough to want to turn the movie off, but that isn't saying that much.In the end I would say not to rent this movie unless you are truly a WWII buff and want to see a story based on that time period. This movie wasn't even like the typical B horror movies where you are laughing throughout the movie and not in a state of panic or fear as the director had intended with his project. This movie got a 4 from me because it wasn't the worse thing I've seen but I am still being somewhat generous with my rating.
