Thehibikiew Not even bad in a good way

Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

TheBlueHairedLawyer Oh, I'm sure that at first glance the cover poster wit the woman in the gas mask draws those post-apocalyptic and virus-type film fans in, but photoshopping a gas mask onto something doesn't make it a good movie. Death Tunnel sounded so cool to me at first with its description...After the first few minutes I was ready to run outside to the coal mines behind my house and scream. What an awful movie! What is it with horror movies made in the 21st century with these stupid women in tank tops dancing at the bar? I don't understand! And the acting, terrible! They really scraped the bottom of the barrel, I've seen high school drama classes do better! The soundtrack was horrible, special effects even worse, and the most pathetic of all was how they tried to give the into a vintage film look and failed miserably.Stick with The Crazies (1973), Warning Sign (1985) or the Omega Man (1971) if you're a fan of biohazard films. Don't bother watching this.

Spikeopath 1928, Kentucky. A horrific disease known as "The White Plague" claimed over 63,000 lives. A monstrous sanatorium was built to isolate the infected and play host to bizarre experiments in desperation to find a cure. Unable to cope with the large amount of corpses, a five hundred foot underground tunnel was constructed for the removal of these bodies, hiding the enormous death toll from the rest of the outside world. This was called "The Death Tunnel".The above opening salvo from Death Tunnel and the stories doing the rounds about spooky stuff happening during filming, are significantly better than the actual film. All things are in place for a rollicking haunted building movie, a genuinely creepy location with a bleak history (The Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky), a young and pretty cast lining up to be terrified and continuing stories of real hauntings in the vicinity. What transpires, sadly, is a desperately derivative picture made worse by a group of film makers who on this occasion are out of their depth.The writing doesn't give the characters any depth to begin with, and then they are thrust into the horrors of the sanatorium and we are supposed to invest in them. Tension is in short supply as the same old same old routine of the girls walking around scared quickly gets dull. The editing and intrusive camera work shows a rookie director (Philip Adrian Booth) let loose unsupervised, making his film seem more like an over extended rock video by some Death Metal band. There's no pausing for breath, something which makes the haphazard structure of the plotting even more baffling. While of course screeching levels of volume are over used throughout as Booth and company crib from a number of other – and better – horror movies.IMDb ratings are rarely a true measure of quality for films, especially with a diverse genre such as horror, yet Death Tunnel's rating of 2.7/10 is very very appropriate. The brains trust behind this movie could have done no worse than learning from Brad Anderson's superb Session 9. Philip Booth and his brother Chris clearly love horror, but their subsequent genre films will need restraint and thought in equal measure. 2/10

Paul Andrews Death Tunnel is set in Kentucky where the notorious Vangard Sanatorium has been closed for years, during the early part of the twentieth century tens of thousands of people died there from an incurable disease known as the 'White Plague' & the countless bodies were secretly taken from the sanatorium by a train through a tunnel under it which has since become known as the 'Death Tunnel'. High school medical student Heather Reed (Steffany Huckaby) is invited to the annual 'Truth or Scare' initiation party & decides to go, during the party five girls are chosen to spend the night in the old creepy supposedly haunted Vangard Sanatorium & Heather is one of them. While Richie (Jason Lasater) looks on using hidden cameras the five girls find themselves stuck in the rundown sanatorium but they are not alone as it becomes clear that there is a supernatural presence & past horrors come back to haunt the present...Edited, photographed, co-written & directed by Philip Adrian Booth this is yet another really bad low budget indie horror film that is a total bore from start to finish, makes no sense, is annoying to watch & has little or no entertainment value. The first thing I noticed about Death Tunnel that annoyed me was the broken narrative, for some strange reason Booth has decided to place sequences out of order so within the first twenty minutes there are dream sequences, flashbacks, flash-forwards, montages & a complete lack of linear structure which would be alright if he was building up to some twists but there aren't any. It just seemed to me Booth was jumbling up the logical order of the plot to try & be clever but it fails, badly. I mean as an example the first thing that actually happens in Death Tunnel is a blonde girl stabbing someone else to death with a shard of glass which then isn't referred to again until it actually happens again latter in the film at the point it should have, the flashbacks, dreams & flash-forwards just didn't make any narrative sense to me & it carries on throughout the rest of the film. There are numerous instances of people doing idiotic things, why doesn't Richie remember the fire escape at the end in order to get out? Why does Ashley suddenly decide to take a shower in a rundown, decrepit old mental hospital? Even though I get the idea that the initial of each of the girls names spells out Death (Devon, Elizabeth, Ashley, Tori & Heather) what does that have to do with anything? Why did that ghost paint their initials on their clothes? Was no-one else meant to check on them? Did Richie not have a mobile phone? Who set all the camera equipment up? Why was it so hard to just walk out of the bloody place? The character's are poor, the plot has momentum & features endless shots of dark corridors & people wandering around in order to stretch the running time out & the plot is near incomprehensible. At an hour & a half Death Tunnel is far too long & there are better films out there.Death Tunnel can't even provide any gore to liven things up, there are a few dead bodies & a little bit of blood splatter but all the kills are off screen & really tame. Death Tunnel looks like one long music video with the constant jumpy editing, shaky camera, the fact that no shot seems to last longer than five seconds & all the black and white montages, the lame attempts at ghostly patients & doctor's & a silly overdone soundtrack full of whizzing & flashbulb type effects to go with the machine-gun editing. Death Tunnel is a real irritant to watch & even think about. There's one scene of gratuitous nudity which is appreciated but hardly compensates for the rest of the film being pretty terrible.With a supposed budget of about a million bucks this was at least partly filmed at the real-life Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky. The film looks alright in terms of on set footage I suppose but the editing ruins it & it just becomes an eyesore. The acting is bad, simple as that.Death Tunnel is a bit of a painful experience to sit through, the constant pointless changes in narrative & time-line annoyed me & serve no purpose that I could see. The lack of gore, the lack of any coherent or logical story & a low body count don't help it.

lauragilcomb44 Having worked in independent films for years, I'd like to think I can rate a movie with detachment and clarity. One thing I have noticed on IMDb is that "indies" get a lot of reviews that use words like "horrible," "a must miss," "sucks," "don't wast your time," and "worst movie ever." Really? Worst ever? First thing I discovered is that in more cases than you would believe these comments are written by friends or acquaintances of the film makers. For what ever reason, jealousy, envy, or even just kicks, they feel the need to write the worst tripe about the movie. They use false names, and as these small movies do not get a lot of votes or comments the vituperative remarks tip the balance against the film. Second are the snipers. They love to assassinate every movie they can. Don't you wonder why they rented or bought this movie in the first place? Do they not recognize the signs of a B movie? What were they expecting? There are two possible answers. They are stupid. They cannot tell the packaging of a low budget B movie from the latest Dreamworks DVD. If this is the case I pity them as they are just showing their lack of intelligence by purchasing the movie in the first place, and then telling everyone on IMDb how stupid they were. Or they may just like trashing movies. It's fun. Like beating up an elderly person. Not much chance of getting hit back.As mentioned above their comments lack style, insight, or even a modicum of actual film critique. Death Tunnel and others like it deserve better. Those of you that care about independent film must learn to disregard the rantings of these vermin that seem to thrive on low budgets. Pity them. If you can't pity them kick them in the shins.