The Rig (2010)

In the midst of a tropical storm, the crew of an offshore oil rig must survive the rampage of a creature after invading its undersea habitat.

Director:

Peter Atencio

Writers:

Scott Martin (original screenplay), C.W. Fallin (story),

Stars:

William Forsythe, Stacey Hinnen, Serah D'Laine

Cast

Complete credited cast:
William Forsythe	...	Jim Fleming
Stacey Hinnen	...	Freddy Brewer
Serah D'Laine	...	Carey Fleming
Marcus T. Paulk	...	Andrew
Carmen Perez	...	Rodriguez
Dan Benson	...	Colin Brewer / The Creature
Robert Zachar	...	Faulkner
Scott Martin	...	Kyle Dobbs
Darren Scott	...	John
Eric Bivens-Bush	...	Virgil
Jacob Bruce	...	Wallace
Dennis LaValle	...	Earl
Art LaFleur	...	Ken Fleming

Storyline

As a hurricane rages outside, the small but experienced crew of an oil drilling rig settles in to ride out the storm. Isolated on the rig, their calm is short lived when a crew member goes missing and an extensive search proves futile. Slowly, they discover that a deadly creature is stalking the skeleton crew, eliminating them one by one. Surrounded by nothing but raging ocean, their communication severed and no way off the rig, the roughnecks try to survive the stormy night with an unrelenting force of death hunting them down.

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Plot Keywords:

storm | oil rig | fire | gore | siege | 

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Taglines:

Some things shouldn't be disturbed.

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Genres:

Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

14A

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 October 2010 (Canada)

Also Known As:

A Plataforma

Filming Locations:

Morgan City, Louisiana, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$3,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

OffSpring Productions, Workshop Films 2

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

"Mr. Charlie" is recognized as the first submersible drilling barge rig in the world to drill offshore wells. It is now used as a museum and training facility in Morgan City, Louisiana.

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Goofs

In the storyline description it says that the crew has no way off the rig. But drill rigs are usually equipped with at least two lifeboats that can each hold the entire crew. And in the opening shot of the movie an orange lifeboat is clearly visible on the side of the rig.

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Quotes

Faulkner: Bad things will happen to you in your life. It's how you respond to them that's gonna determine your character... from the day you're born to the day you die.
Kyle Dobbs: But that doesn't make it any easier.
Faulkner: It never does...

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Connections

References Aliens (1986)

User Reviews

This movie should give hope to all aspiring film makers.

If you're wondering why, with a summary like that, I can only give it 1 out of 10, let me explain.

If someone can take a script this bad and a cast so poor and still persuade people to hand their money over to it, then, if you're an aspiring movie maker, you should be ecstatic.

It has absolutely everything bad you can think of in a movie: Horrendously poor editing; a completely pointless flashback to a few minutes earlier, in black and white to remind you (if you're a complete idiot) what just happened; dreadful, tinny low budget music to match the low budget set; and a man in a plastic monkey suit grabbing people in a quick blur of camera motion while someone throws fake blood around.

And dialogue that's so poor that if they had managed to hire a cast of decent actors they would have ended up shaking their heads at the inanity of it all.

There are some tits in it. That ought to double the viewing audience.

Give this one a wide berth unless you have the choice of watching this or sticking map pins into your eyeballs.