Intermedio
Intermedio
R | 29 March 2005 (USA)
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Under the border leading into Mexico, within a labyrinth of caves, a deadly presence haunts all who enter. For four friends on an expedition, the caverns become an underground graveyard as the tortured ghosts prey upon them, one by one.

Reviews
Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!
Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.
Hayleigh Joseph This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.
Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
bkoganbing Four teens set out one day to explore one of those tunnels that run under the USA/Mexican border, not on any geological quest mind you, but it's rumored that there is a stash of some really primo grass there, the stuff they called in my misspent youth, Acapulco Gold. Nice and aged it should have a great street value.The four teens are Cerina Vincent, Callard Harris, Amber Benson, and Edward Furlong. At the time this film was made Edward Furlong was all of 28 and looked it, but I'm sure this was the best they were offering him.Now if nothing had ever happened why Benson was along is beyond me. She has a broken foot and is on crutches and she's really not much help in a crisis. And the crises start piling up.First our four explorers meet some real live drug dealers who are upset that someone is on their turf. The only other ones allowed are coyotes running illegals across the border. But then they meet up with crazy old Steve Railsback who has an army of ghosts he's collected in the tunnel. All part of some vengeance scheme involving his late son, Paul Cram who is also appearing as ectoplasm.This was supposed to be a camp version of a horror film, but I found very few laughs here.
MartianOctocretr5 This is a standard teens-against-monsters horror quickie, and you know what that means. There is not one iota of originality in this movie; you've seen every one of these recycled plot devices a hundred times before.Stock teen character personality types: check. Stupidly going somewhere they shouldn't be: check. In the middle of nowhere: check. Grotesque, vicious ghosts/creatures of some kind that get a kick out of killing teens: check. Teens turning into monsters too, and trying to croak the remaining survivors: check. Weird old man who has a history with the evil: check. Incessant screaming, futile banging on doors to escape, arguing about how to kill the creatures, running around in caves, characters "calming down" each other, lots of red paint on stomachs and necks, surprise attacks from supposed allies on each other, cars that don't run, monsters that just keep on chasing you etc etc etc. Check.The acting and scripting are even below the established low level for this kind of movie. This one is only good for background noise while you're doing chores; or to laugh at it MST3K style. As for a story? Nope.
Paul Andrews Intermedio is set in Mexico where a guy named Wes (Callard Harris) informs his friends Malik (Eward Furlong), Gen (Cercina Vincent) & Barbie (Amber Benson) that there is a maze of tunnels beneath the Mexican Californian border which are perfect for smuggling drugs & that he has set up a deal that will make them loads of money, simple eh? Well it sounds it but Wes also says that the tunnels are apparently haunted by 'Inetrmedio's ' which is Spanish for 'In-Bewteens' which are ghost that are caught in limbo. However that doesn't stop them & they head into the tunnels, this being a horror film though the tunnels are indeed haunted by evil spirits...Directed by Andrew Lauer I thought Intermedio was crap, pure & simple. The script by Kraig Wenman has a rubbish premise that is all over the place, it never really explains itself to any degree of satisfaction & the character's are awful. Every character in this film is terrible & so unlikable, a film such as this where the characters are in peril has to have sympathetic characters that you root for & want to survive unfortunately Intermedio has none & you jut end up wanting everyone to die horribly so the rubbish your watching will just end. It's very slow, dull & boring, I mean does watching an hour of annoying teenagers wander around caves arguing & generally being very unlikable sound like fun? Does it sound exciting? Is that something you would like to sit through? Well I did sit through it & it's not far off chewing glass in terms of entertainment value. I can't be bothered to say how bad this film is, how stupid it is, how thin the story & plot are & how pointless it is so I won't.Director Lauer doesn't do anything special, there are just too many long boring stretches of these annoying kids walking around these caves arguing & it becomes extremely tedious to watch. The special effects are terrible, the ghosts look like paint smears on the screen. There is also a distinct lack of gore & violence, there's a baffling scene where a guy has a chain stuck though his eye but how? There are a few dead bodies lying around, someone gets a knife stuck in their throat & a awful scene where someone is sliced in half, the special effects in this sequence are embarrassing.With a supposed budget of about $1,000,000 Intermedio is reasonably well made despite the terrible special effects. There's still too many shots of irritating people walking around caves though. The acting is awful, it really is & this pretty much confirms the end of the careers of both Edward Furlong & Steve Railsback whose character isn't even given a name.Intermedio is absolutely crap, I'm sorry but there isn't one single positive thing I can say about it. It's stupid, full of annoying characters, there's no gore, no scares & it's pretty god damn boring as well. Definitely not recommended.
innocuous Just awful. If I were the producers, I'd get my money back from the film lab. At least, I hope they didn't get charged for color correction, since every shot has a different color balance.I'm puzzled about Cerina Vincent failing to show us anything, too. In "Not Another Teen Movie" she appeared completely nude every time she was on screen. In "Cabin Fever" she managed to keep her clothes on most of the time. Here, she just sort of jiggles a lot, but keeps her shirt on. At least some boobs would have made me give it another half of a star.Most of the time, the characters are sort of lost in a tunnel. Eve though it's conveniently strung with lights, they never think to just follow the light cables to either end.The scenes are shot in very confusing angles and you never really get a sense of where anyone is. Very amateurish. The highlight is when a couple characters are moving through a crawlspace. When they return the way they came, the director just flips the earlier scene...with the predictable result that the very distinct writing on one of the character's shirts is reversed. Guess nobody noticed or cared.Definitely not worth your time unless you just can't sleep.