Stormhouse (2011)

The military have captured and imprisoned a supernatural entity. And now it wants to play.

Director:

Dan Turner

Writers:

Jason Arnopp, Dan Turner (story)

Stars:

Katherine Flynn, Grant Masters, Patrick Flynn

Cast

Cast overview:
Katherine Flynn	...	Hayley Sands (as Katie Flynn)
Grant Masters	...	Major Anthony Lester
Patrick Flynn	...	Justin Rourke
Grahame Fox	...	Lieutenant Groves
Munir Khairdin	...	Salim Hassan
Martin Delaney	...	Brandon Faber
James Capel	...	Karl Matthews
Anthony Mark Streeter	...	Lance Corporal Rogers
Frankie Fitzgerald	...	Dan Randall
Andrew Hall	...	Minister Duncan McGillis
Jordan Pitt	...	Andy Duggan
Marlon Williams	...	Jones

Storyline

In 2002, 11 months before the invasion of Iraq, the military captured and imprisoned a supernatural entity at Stormhouse, a secret underground base. This film documents the final four days of that experiment. 'Ghost whisperer' Hayley Sands is brought to Stormhouse by the government to make contact with the captured entity. Her arrival triggers a series of events which lead to the entity's escape, plunging the base into a horrific nightmare.

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Plot Keywords:

entity | supernatural | imprisoned | military | experiment | 

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Taglines:

Who wants to play?

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Genres:

Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence/gore and some language

Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

7 February 2012 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Bentwaters Parks, Rendlesham, Suffolk, England, UK

Company Credits

Production Co:

Scanner-Rhodes Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

88 min (original)

Sound Mix:

6-Track Stereo Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The cast and crew lived on location and were kept to a military regime to mirror the film.

User Reviews

Awful is hardly enough to describe this...

This is without a doubt one of the worst horror movies that I have had to suffer through, so I guess the label 'horror' was accurate in that sense, but in the sense of it being a scary movie, not so much.

"Stormhouse" starts off with indicating "This film was inspired by real events". Yeah, then that makes me Elvis Presley incarnated. So they want us to believe that the British military had managed to capture a spirit entity from the afterlife? And to make matters even worse, keep it secured in a small fenced yard? Right! Lets see, spirit entities are incorporeal and ethereal, meaning they would be able to traverse in any direction and even through solid matter. But still, the director wanted us to believe that a chain-linked fence (without a roof) was sufficient to hold such a supernatural entity at bay?

Moving on. And for a military base, it is without a doubt the most unlit installation in the history of military bases. I have never seen such lack of lighting anywhere. And I found it highly unrealistic and questionable that a military force would keep their base shrouded in perpetual darkness. And it just didn't help the movie one bit either, as most of the time we can hardly see what is going on because of the poor (well, lack of) lighting in almost every scene.

As for being a 'horror' movie, then "Stormhouse" was really a major disappointment, as there were no scares in it at all - probably because we couldn't see what was going on as there wasn't sufficient lighting anywhere. And also, the entire story was just so very implausible that it didn't work out on any level.

I am a big fan of horror movies, and I do like supernatural movies, but this one was just too much waste of time and effort. There are far better ghost movies available on the market. Actually, you might even be better off (and more entertained) by movies such as those awful "Paranormal Activity" movies. But still, they were better than this one.

One thing that "Stormhouse" had working for it, though, was the people they had cast for the various roles. Most of them actually did good enough jobs in acting, but nothing really memorable here though.

It wasn't very far into the movie before I started to do other stuff while the movie was playing; SMS texting and cleaning up the living room. The story in "Stormhouse" is just unfathomable uninteresting and unappealing. If you like horror movies or ghost movies, "Stormhouse" might not be a good choice. I was bored senseless.