recommended

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

There are bad films and bad films. Bad films like Night of Horror, boasting a set up excremental enough that not even Orson Welles teamed up with Ray Dennis Steckler could have gotten something good out of it. Then there are bad films like Death Tunnel, which could have been a good film were it not seemingly made by pubescent coke heads. Interesting story, check. Great location, check. Decent freaky designs, check. Unbearable directing style, uh oh, back to square one. Essentially Death Tunnel is the most intrusively directed film I've ever seen. Put together by the Booth brothers it tells the story of five girls who get chosen to take part in a college initiation game, exploring for five hours the five floors of an abandoned local sanatorium with sinister past. Needless to say much weirdness goes down as it turns out they aren't alone and that their company isn't friendly... The right elements are in place. Filmed at a genuine abandoned sanatorium (Waverly Hills), Death Tunnel looks sporadically great, all decaying walls, dripping ceilings, sickly green pallor, the times when the camera stays still there are even a few nice compositions. I don't know exactly how much set dressing went into the place to make it look scarier but I'll wager its a great location even without. Then there are all the design touches, surveillance cameras like robot eyes, foul hued plague spectres, fiendish suited and masked creatures, lots of grisly interest to be seen. But rather than the time tested tactic of using decent writing to build characters and suspense whilst gradually feeding in an ever increasing flood of scares Death Tunnel seems to assume that the audience has the attention span of a gnat and no means of processing storytelling, hence requiring constant visual stimulation to stay interested. Every 30 seconds or so there bursts of sepia tinting, monochrome, camera jerks, subliminal apparitions, flashbacks, loud noises and every imaginable overbearing audio-visual gimmick one can imagine. Perhaps a lot of time and fun went into putting it all together, but the net result is dull within twenty minutes, and by the last twenty minutes I could hardly wait for the whole darned thing to be over. The acting wasn't great either, but to be honest I give them the benefit of the doubt as this film would have made an idiot of Olivier I wish I could like this one more as there's the kernel of something quite cool in there and if the film was shortened and drastically re- edited it could have been quite fun. But it just irritated me for the most part. Pretty much the most satisfaction I got out of this were a couple of kill shots (one being nicely bloody), one decent pair of live tits and a couple pairs of plague ridden ghost tits. This could almost make me score the film higher, but its not enough and this film isn't recommended. 3/10, screw it.

I strongly recommend this film. As opposed to the usual "straight to DVD run of the mill" crap that hits the horror shelf, this one actually was a bit original in its take on the "locked in a scary place" angle. I also enjoyed that the scary effects relied more on sensory input, flashbacks and some empathy with the victims rather than drenching the watcher in blood, gore and badly created monsters/ghosts.It looks like the director had a clear vision that he wanted to get through to the audience and he executed it brilliantly. It is, in my opinion, "Barker"esque when it comes to the visual presentation of the entities inhibiting the hospital.

Based liberally on true events involving a 1930s Kentucky sanatorium. A party with the theme of "Truth or Scare" goes horribly wrong and five college girls wake up trapped inside an abandoned sanatorium formerly used to house patients dying of TB. The only way out is a tunnel that was designed to take the dead out of the building without other patients viewing and losing what little hope they had left. A mystery voice on a speaker system reminds the five girls they are each on a different floor and must survive five hours. The girls encounter visions of ghosts past and they must fight for dear life to prevent history from repeating itself.The story is eerie, acting is good enough for this genre; but movie itself is just poor. Some grisly and gruesome scenes. Strong language is over used. Most viewers will be brought in by the R rating. The cast is full of eye candy and includes: Steffany Huckaby, Kristin Novak, Jason Lasater, Annie Burgstede, Melanie Lewis and Yolanda Pecoraro.

This movie was the worst movie I've ever seen. I couldn't even watch it to the end. The story is that 5 dumb girls are put into a haunted sanitorium as a prank but then there are also these 5 ghosts and something happens. It's impossible to tell what happened because the whole movie was composed of 5 minute scenes that are all mixed up.It also seems that they picked random people to play the main characters because the acting was horrible. All the lines were made up of high pitched screaming that makes your ears bleed, and your typical scary movie dumb blonde clichés. Not to mention that the characters do have the intelligence of a 3 year old. Every character will say to themselves "where am I", then they will call out to someone, see a ghost, ignore it at first, something jumps out of the shadows, and finally the girls scream for 10 minutes and run around.This movie has it all! Bad editing, bad lighting (everything has a stupid tint to it), bad acting, bad script, nonexistent plot, and a large amount of breathing and shouting. Do not see this movie, do not rent this movie, do not make eye contact with this movie. I cannot stress this enough. This movie gets a 1 out of 10 for FAILURE.