Red Sands (2009)

User Rating:

4.6/10   

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:

Statue | Soldier | Shovel | Rape | Creature

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)

Moves at a steady pace and builds an unnerving atmosphere.

RED SANDS follows a group of soldiers stationed in the Iraqi desert, during their stay strange things begin to happen when a mysterious woman stumbles into their camp.

The film has a very slow pace, something one of my friends found extremely frustrating about this film, during the first act it seemed that the storyline was almost non existent up until the strange woman stumbles into the soldiers hideout, then after that the film started to build this very unsettling tension that has you thinking there's something out there but you just don't know what it is, and it also sets an unnerving mood with the soldiers slowly but surely beginning to lose it, the acting is good considering the minimal character development, the cast clearly didn't have much to work with but they pulled of a decent job.

Overall, a good movie if you're the patient kind, but I can say that a lot of people will find the slow pace rather frustrating, because most of the time it will feel like there's no storyline, but its there, like I said if you're the patient kind.