

While it would have been nice to know more about the ‘thing’ they run into down there, the chance to make up your own mind adds some extra creepiness to things. 1987: When the Day Comes Watch options Storyline A MANS DESPERATE STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE Jung-su, an ordinary car dealer, is on his way home with a birthday cake for his daughter. There are several questions to be answered before, while and after watching the film. It’s a mysterious story and by the end, a lot of answers remain. However, most of this can be forgiven because The Tunnel does almost everything so very well. Especially in the latter, more frantic parts of the movie.
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It’s a dark movie and while effort is made to light as much as possible with night vision and torches, it doesn’t stop many parts being unwatchable. As the audience, we knew that the man Dean and Nora had seen in the tunnel was not Roger Kaplan. Even though Dean and Nora believed it was Kaplan who was sending them the letters, Kaplan denied knowing them.

Dean saw a man running through the tunnel, but they were unable to catch him. Picture the things that make found footage such a chore to watch and then amplify them with darkness…that’s The Tunnel. The tunnel was a long one, and there was a bed in it. Of course that does bring us to the films biggest and most annoying flaw. The cast are strong and never seem to make frustrating or idiotic decisions, even the constant camera carrying is explained and makes sense. Grounding it in reality as we often cut from the action to the surviving characters taking about their experience. The documentary-style is also praise worthy. Tunnelen (The Tunnel) Award-Winning Sci-Fi Thriller Short Film 651,182 views From director Andr vredal (Trollhunter, Scary Stories. The premise is clever, the logic is sound and it builds up the tension well. A curiously humdrum disaster film about an accident in a mountain highway tunnel that traffics in clichs and coincidences more than excitement. Let’s get that clear right from the start.

It seems like a dead end…until they start to hear noises. What they find is miles of dark and dirty tunnels, abandoned shelters and a huge lake of water. Along with her producer Peter (Andy Rodoreda), cameraman Steven (Steve Davis) and audio engineer Tangles (Luke Arnold), she decides to head into the tunnels. She believes the government found something down there and is determined to find out what. This, alongside reports of homeless people going missing in the tunnels gains the interest of a journalist, Natasha (Bel Deliá). Then quietly and suddenly the government changes its mind and doesn’t reveal why. Other than some up uproar regarding the relocation of the homeless that sleep in these tunnels, the plan seems like a good one. They plan to recycle huge expanses of water that is trapped below in a network of abandoned train tunnels. Through news reports and documentaries it is revealed that the New South Wales State government has found a way to combat water shortages. However, The Tunnel sets its story up really well. It stars Bel Deliá, Andy Rodoreda, Steve Davis, Luke Arnold and unsurprisingly is set in the abandoned railway tunnels of Sydney, Australia.Ī found footage horror set in disused underground tunnels is hardly cause for excitement. The original themes of doubt and vengeance struggle to emerge - how much proof is required for crimes as barbaric as those that Thomas is supposed to have committed? what punishment is appropriate? - but this update's fixation on achieving a bloody catharsis drowns out other ideas.Playing out like a documentary, The Tunnel is an Australian found-footage horror movie directed by Carlo Ledesma. The original shows were set in an unnamed South American country, with the suspected villains accused of working for a brutal former regime.įor some reason, that setting has been changed. Outside, this breaking news creates media frenzy. Minutes later, he realizes that he is completely caught in between the debris. As he drives into a tunnel an unbelievable thing happens the tunnel collapses on him. This movie is a remake of Death And The Maiden (1994), which itself is based on the play of the same name. A MANS DESPERATE STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE Jung-su, an ordinary car dealer, is on his way home with a birthday cake for his daughter. But the only person who can help her, husband Lewis (Chris Messina), also the town doctor, thinks she is mistaken. She believes him to be a particularly sadistic former German soldier, living in plain sight with a new identity. Maja (Noomi Rapace), a survivor of horrific World War II experiences, is living in post-war America when she spots a man, Thomas (Joel Kinnaman). The erratic The Secrets We Keep opens promisingly.
