TheLittleSongbird
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
Michael_Elliott
Death Tunnel (2005) 1/2 (out of 4) Horrendously bad movie about five college girls who are put inside a haunted sanatorium where they must go through five floors of terror but things take a turn for the worse when they start being murdered off. If you're not familiar with any of the story then you might want to check out some of the TV shows and documentaries that have dealt with Waverly Hills Sanatorium. It's a true place that is considered to be one of the most frightening and haunted places out there but this film, shot entirely on location there, wouldn't tell you that. I've seen quite a few things on Waverly Hills and they've all been pretty creepy but that's certainly not the case with this very bad film. I'm really not sure where to start but I guess it's fair to say that the majority of the blame has to go towards director, writer, editor and cinematographer Philip Adrian Booth. I'm really not sure what exactly he was going for but the film comes off as a major rip of SAW, THE SHINING and THE RING. The added goodie is that they're shooting in a real haunted location but this never comes across for a number of reasons. What I hated most about this movie was that it's simply very annoying. We're given all sorts of suicide worthy sound effects that are just so annoying that you'll be wanting to hit the stop button right there. Just as worse is the type of editing, which results in a lot of fast cuts that try to "shock" when when scenes cut to violence, death or gore but it just comes across very silly. I'm really not sure what the director was wanted by the Waverly Hills place has all sorts of atmosphere but all of it is missing here, which is something I thought could never happen. The performances are all bland, the story full of non-sense and in the end this is just a really bad film.
BakuryuuTyranno
Five girls spend several hours in a creepy hospital for a college sorority initiation. However, the place really is haunted and a body count starts to appear.Simple enough, right? Apparently not. Death Tunnel opens with a sequence in the past that turns out to be a character's dream. From that point on, too much incoherentness occurs due to cutting to scenes in the past, ghostly images and rapid editing, this movie quickly loses all sense of... anything.It fails to be scary due to relying on things like jump "scares" and the chase scenes too fall prey when over-directing comes in. Sometimes they resemble something you'd see during music videos, sometimes they're simply slow-motion. Unfortunately they are never intense, frightening or exciting.As an example of how incoherent this movie is, I missed the first death due to inability to understand what was going on.
board-5
Love or hate this I've seen far worst,also far better,maybe it's entertaining factor is not work as far as the creators wanted,but the message is just shocked me,that is what I will not forget for my life.Interiors of the big scary,abandoned hospital,just take what creators wanted to take from you,attention,but sometimes they need more,and clear story.Creators wanted use sound editing to be more entertaining,sometimes it's worked for me,but not every time,the whole film becomes boring,and getting better only at the last 30-minutes,but finally the ending is not as satisfying as creators dreamed about it.This is a low budget film,but it would be better with bigger budget.(Rare situation)5/10
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