Red Sands (2009)

Director:

Alex Turner

Writer:

Simon Barrett (writer)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Horror | War

Tagline:

Spirits take no prisoners.

Plot:

During a mission in the Middle East, a group of US soldiers destroy a statue out of boredom only to then be visited by something the next day. |

Plot Keywords:

Soldier | Statue | Urination | Staff Sergeant | Murder

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Shane West	...	Jeff Keller
Leonard Roberts	...	Marcus Howston
Aldis Hodge	...	Trevor Anderson
Callum Blue	...	Gregory Wilcox
Brendan Miller	...	Chard Davies
Theo Rossi	...	Tino Hull
Noel Gugliemi	...	Jorge Wardell (as Noel G)
Mercedes Masöhn	...	Arab Woman
Govinda Touzene	...	Afghan Child
Andrew Elvis Miller	...	Parker
Fahim Fazli	...	Goat Herder
Ashourina Benjamin	...	Ahfgan Dead Mom (as Asharina Benjamin)
Simon Barrett	...	Matt Carson
Chris Carter	...	Hollister
Kim Stodel	...	Clemens

Also Known As:

Stone House (USA) (working title)
The Shape (USA) (working title)
The Stone House (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violent content, language and some sexual material.

Runtime:

Argentina:88 min (DVD version) | USA:89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

USA:R | Australia:MA (2008) | UK:18 | Argentina:16 | Netherlands:16 | Singapore:M18

Filming Locations:

Kabul, Afghanistan

Company:

Tricky Pictures

Trivia:

Based on true events.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Screenwriter Diaries (2009) (V)

Exremely boring and predictable

Before seeing this movie, I expected something better from the director of 'Dead Birds' which was a very decent movie (not breath-taking, but interesting and worth-seeing in the horror genre). I got disappointed very early on, but I continued to watch it, maybe hoping for an interesting turn or at least something that would compensate me for the 90 minutes spent seeing it. But it kept on going worse. OK, the story setting is good, a group of American soldiers stationed in the Afghanistan's desert waking up a djinn. That's all that was good. It could be a nice movie but the result was boring, dull, not at least frightening, and the end is totally predictable. The actors were rather mediocre, the dialogs poor, the characters stereotypical, the special effects very cheap, the attempt to describe the American view of the Muslim religion childish and lacking, and the overall plot had a lot of holes in it. With one word, boring. A waste of time, there must be hundreds of other movies in this category better than this one so do not waste any time on this.