The Tunnel
In 2007, in the midst of the drought and water shortages, the NSW State government has unveiled plans to tap into and recycle millions of litres of water trapped in a network of abandoned train tunnels just beneath the heart of Sydney. However the government suddenly goes cold on the plan and it is not made public why. There is talk of homeless people who use the tunnel as shelter going missing, even though the government states that there are no homeless people in there. This, and the silence from the officials and ministers, leads a journalist, Natasha to begin an investigation into a government cover-up. She and her crew Pete (Producer), Steve (Cameraman) and Tangles (Sound Technichian) decide to investigate the story in the tunnel.
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- Cast:
- Luke Arnold , James Caitlin , Goran D. Kleut , Peter McAllum , Renee Lim
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I love this movie so much
Such a frustrating disappointment
Good movie but grossly overrated
Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
A found footage horror mixed with interviews dealing with what was in the tunnels. An Australian film crew hits the tunnels looking for any sign of homeless people and reasons why the water program was abandoned. The deeper they get the more horrors they face.This was the film that they crowdfunded by selling the 135 000 frames that made up the film for one dollar each. This was also the first film they made just to be put on bitTorrent sites for free. They ended up selling 35 000 frames but had a good amount of orders in for DVDs to make a go of it.The film wasn't too bad with a few genuine scares, but after 45 minutes it seems too long. I liked the effect of the camera lens breaking near the end forcing us to watch the final frames through a cracked lens. A majority of the film is in the dark which makes for not knowing what the hell is going on.
Please, please, please, please, please don't watch this movie!!!! Let me tell you what I experienced as I watched this movie....Husband is gone for the night... yes.. horror movie night tonight!!!! I am the sickest, most earnest horror movie lover girl... then I put this horrible movie on... dear god, I have to say, this is one of the worst movies I have ever seen!!! I would have put that in caps! And I totally go for underrated horror movies!!!! When I was about 25 minutes in, I kept the movie rolling and had to write this review. Listen, I want my four bucks back from Amazon, and I want to implore other horror movie lovers not to watch this crap. It really is crap. I like a lot of terrible horror movies to my delight... usually... Yet, it was so boring that I actually had to write this badly written movie review, JUST to tell you how bad it was. There is nothing happening... it is an obviously fake documentary movie, but not even on a good way!!! It has no appeal, no scary parts whatsoever!!!! I am so angry that I have wasted my time with this movie that I am truly bummed, and I shouldn't be this mad, because I am. I normally write really thoughtful movie reviews, but this one really did it to me. Don't watch it! Save your time and life11!! Ugh!! (Phew!)
I hate paid reviews and ratings. Expected a lot, but this was honestly the worst movie and waste of time EVER! It totally sucks and the smallest spider on earth gives me bigger scares. This movie actually did not have one single scare or scary moment at all.The movie is really really really bad and makes no sense at all. Really.. What the f*. Ps. If you hate the screaming chick in The Blair Witch Project. Good luck with this one. Let's keep screaming and "sshhhh"-ing when were being followed and "hunted" on. Full on frustration. At the end of the movie I actually wanted to smash my TV, because this movie was so extremely bad.
Whether you enjoyed the Blair Witch Project or not, it set a president in these 'found footage' horror films. Over recent years they've been cropping up in every country, showing us the tale of people who - for some reason - feel the need to feel the entire of their supernatural encounter, right up until the point of their demise.This is Australia's entry into the genre.It starts off slow. You can basically skip the entire first half hour - it's all backstory and character-building. Some may like a slow start, others won't, but, either way, you'll still be able to understand the film if you do.It's about four members of a news crew who go below Sydney into the abandoned underground system to get a story. Naturally, they get more than they bargained for. Unfortunately, what follows is simply the same as you'll see in any other 'found footage' film. You have people running around screaming, talking into camera, shaky camera-work, only brief flashes of whatever is hunting them, the obligatory night-vision shots, getting lost and bickering with each other and so on.Yes, it's well acted and nicely presented, but, perhaps the most disappointing aspect of the film were the 'interviews.' Whereas in other 'found footage' films they go the other way and have a piece of text at the beginning telling (spoiling?) the viewer by saying this footage was all that was found, i.e. everyone in the film is dead or missing. The Tunnel Movie interviews the survivors all the way through the film, cutting their thoughts on what they've filmed. For me this kind of told me who survives and who doesn't. I felt the interviews should have been taken out all together. At least that way the viewer wouldn't know who lives and who dies until the end.The Tunnel Movie is okay. There's nothing bad I can really say about it, but then there's nothing that I haven't seen before. If it was released before Blair Witch, it would have been the benchmark with which all others are measured against. Sadly, it's nearly fifteen years too late for that title, therefore it gets lost in the multitude of 'Blair Witch clones.' Not bad, but nothing new.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/