Death Tunnel (2005)

Director:

Philip Adrian Booth

Writers:

Christopher Saint Booth (writer)
Philip Adrian Booth (writer)

Release Date:

11 January 2006 (Australia)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Your initiation into terror.

Plot:

For an initiation stunt, five college women are locked in a Kentucky hospital built in 1910 where 63,000 people died from a disease known as the "white plague". Deep under the hospital is the "Death Tunnel" which once were used to secretly remove the dead from the grounds.

Plot Keywords:

Plague | Death Tunnel | Corridor | Asylum | School

Cast

Steffany Huckaby	...	Heather
Melanie Lewis	...	Devon
Yolanda Pecoraro	...	Elizabeth
Kristin Novak	...	Ashley
Annie Burgstede	...	Tori
Jason Lasater	...	Richie
Gary Wolf	...	Gio
Robyn Corum	...	Leah
Gill Gayle	...	Professor
Brian Dyer	...	Dr. Vangard
Reenie Varga	...	Ghost Nurse
Jilon Ghai	...	Mason
Jesse Bernstein	...	Cameron
George W. Harr Jr.	...	Death in Sanatorium (as George 'Big John' Harr)
B.J. Winslow	...	Death in Morgue

MPAA:

Rated R for strong bloody violence/gore, language and nudity.

Runtime:

Argentina:97 min | USA:97 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:MA | USA:R | UK:18 | Singapore:M18 | Argentina:16 | Germany:16 | Finland:K-15 | Iceland:16

Filming Locations:

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Plus Entertainment (+Entertainment)

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Ritchie wakes up at the morgue, the bodies are clearly breathing when he and Heather leave the room.

Quotes:

Death in Morgue: Here... I am God. I am life, I am death.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Spooked: The Ghosts of Waverly Hills Sanatorium (2006)

Soundtrack:

Before the Strike

Mostly uninteresting and unexciting.

Movie is based on the True Stories and Hauntings of Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky. This horrific Five story structure is listed as one of the Top Ten Scariest Places on Earth, due to the 63,000+ deaths within this monument of Terror. They were then carried through the massive Five hundred foot underground Tunnel to their final resting place. The story involves Five girls on a college initiation, dared to spend the night separately on the Five floors of this sanatorium, with the Five ghosts that exist within it's abandoned corridors. Will they make it through the night? For the only way out is through...the Death Tunnel.

This is a film which tries to scare you with cheap imagery and jump scenes. There's nothing really good about this movie (maybe the girls?), it does have a haunting setting and theme but it's executed amateurly. They also rip-off multiple mainstream movies, most notably SAW.

After a few moments into the movie, you realize it's basically just another teen movie (the awful parties, the bitchy girls etc). After they pick some of the most sluttiest girls from our new generation to spend their time in the "haunted" place, you get a movie riddled with confusion. You can be sure to watch girls walk around, investigate and yell out "What the hell am I doing here?" type questions.

The acting isn't too bad but the characters all suck and have shitty lines. So its hard for me to rate them but they seem OK. I like the music in the movie but it's repeated at nauseum. It's like they loved it so much, it was the best part of the movie... it was the movie! Death Tunnel is a bullshit ride which House On Haunted Hill remake lovers could endure but any self-respecting horror fan will realize it's just a festival of try-hard "scary" stuff happening on screen. There's too much scene chopping and flashbacks to keep it progressing well.

Mostly uninteresting and unexciting.