Death Tunnel (2005) -Archive

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There's this supposed fun little initiation for four girls chosen by a supposed hunk for a supposed popularity push. So the initiation takes place in an old Kentucky institution for researching and housing those who were infected by a white plague. The film's creators thought it neat to claim this film was based on real events, but the film is far from believable even as a phantasmagoria of horror. Where Booth desires to hit like a ton of bricks with thrills through a massacre of jump cuts and plays with photography and film speeds, the film comes off amateurish and laughable. When a sequence in the film is supposed to be scary, it comes off as so silly one can't help but chuckle under his breath. The idea seems thrilling enough. Four girls trying to find their way out of this huge building of decay with ghosts of those who died of disease and violence(it's offered in the story that the administrative doctor attempting the creation of the cure may've experimented and murdered many with the compound amongst a number of other horrific acts of violence such as suicide). But, it appears that the director Booth through his film roll in a blender and mixed it all up so that the story is all over the place and hard to decipher through. While the film desires to say that it seems the girls are here(as is Richie, the hunk who finds that his friends were eliminated by those ghosts running amok)for a purpose, the film's original idea of watching characters being chased loses steam. The film is just poorly executed and hard to stay interested in. Instead of keeping the film still at all, it seems the viewer is following a wild goose chase instead of the characters. Booth can't seem to keep his camera still long enough for us to identify with the characters, but I guess he has to take up the slack of rotten, amateurish acting. The film is just a failure. The Scarecrow says, stay away from this garbage and follow some other goose chase instead. Perhaps, you'll be less dizzy.

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-- 28th of March, 2006