Excellent, smart action film.

Disturbing yet enthralling

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

It is my own fault for buying the movie! I should have read these reviews ahead of time but I did not know about them, then.I tried to watch UNEARTHED and shut it off about 10 minutes from the end. It was so dark that I did not see 20 minutes of the movie. If you are going to make movies that can ONLY be watched in a theater then they should not be put on DVD and sold for $19.95. Your movie has been placed in a box for Goodwill where they will probably sell it for an appropriate price of $2. I do not even want to know the answers to the movie as I could not see enough of it to care. It seemed like a decent movie and good plot, from what I saw.Any movie that is filmed in the dark, even blockbusters like the last version of Godzilla, and cannot be watched on television should either not be put on DVD, or labeled with "Too dark to watch on television and still be enjoyed!" so that the buyer can decide where they want to spend their $20. You are rich enough to waste your money, but a lot of people have to earn their money the hard way and cannot afford to waste it, or their time trying to imagine what is happening on the screen.A long time movie buff, Edgar J Cormier

If you read other comments, then you probably don't need me to tell you this film wasn't up to standard, but one opinion I have of the film is that its pretty dead, as I am referring to the fact that it doesn't really have any interesting characters, and the nearly incoherent dialog sounds like its being mumbled half the time.The storyline is your basic monster is unearthed and starts to kill everything from cattle to people, and that's it, and of course there's a negative side, you can barely see what goes on in half the scenes (and you don't need me to tell you that either, several other comments also agree) Overall, what I've seen from Horrorfest 2007 so far (Boderland, Tooth & Nail, The deaths of Ian Stone, Nightmare Man, Unearthed) this film and Nightmare Man both seem like the worst films in the fest.

These scuzzball horror flicks share the same handful of shopworn techniques and stock characters. In this case, there are the dimly lit interiors and nocturnal exteriors, the cartoonish "urban" black guy, the cute but ditzy starlet-wannabe, the noble Native American, the don't-mess-with-me hardass, the alarmed scientist nobody listens to until it's too late, the "Alien" ripoff monster, the interminable and absolutely pointless conversations and creeping around cluttered sets -- and, last but not least, one character who's gone all guilty and depressed and alcoholic over some mistake he or she once made, and who, we have to admit, would probably be better off dead. In this movie, it's ***************SPOILER ALERT*************** the lady sheriff, whose flashbacks about the little girl she accidentally killed make it very clear that she will sacrifice herself in the end to kill the monster and save her friends. Which she does. The scientist and the ditzy blond survive, everyone else is killed. And most of the time when there's a sudden noise and everyone spins around and points their guns at it, it's just one of the other characters tripping over something. Also, I think it has something to do with nuclear testing (it takes place in New Mexico), so it's kind of a Godzilla movie underneath it all. There, now you don't have to see it.

After a truck is destroyed on a freeway, an alcoholic police officer (Emmanuelle Vaugier) and others are terrorized by a mysterious and violent creature. As the night progresses, the group of survivors learn that the creature is not of this Earth and attempting to destroy the human race.The writer/director of Dead & Breakfast, a fun horror-comedy, and writer of the upcoming reboot of Creepshow returns with Unearthed. Giving a quick scan of the DVD case, I see what's simultaneously the worst-looking cover and most unoriginal plot of the After Dark Horror Fest so far (from both years). It sounded more like a Sci-Fi Original's plot than it did a theatrically released horror film. Hell, even Sci-Fi Originals have more creativity in their plots (who will ever forget Rock Monster?). So, without an original storyline or, at least, cool artwork, Unearthed had a lot of work to do. As expected, it didn't come through. While the acting in this one was quite a bit better than the other After Dark Horrorfest films I've seen, the stale writing and lack of risky direction made for a very boring film. I, truly, have never been less engaged by a film. I never once cared about the characters in peril. . . just hoped they would die quickly to get the film over with. The effects were, when finally seen, poorly done. There were almost no scares and even fewer moments of any suspense. Overall, there aren't really any redeeming characteristics of this film. Not enjoyable, not enough violence/gore to please horrorhounds, no sex/nudity, no spectacularly well done writing or directing. . . really nothing good at all.Final verdict: 2.5/10.