Death Tunnel Movie
Storyline
TAGLINES
Your initiation into terror.
Fear has no cure.
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.
| 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 |
| B.J. Winslow | Death in Morgue |
| Philip Adrian Booth |
2.70 out of 10 (1605 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Horrible
posted on 08 Aug 2009Predictable movie. It tries to be "interesting" in the way to show the story, but it's very confusing. Also the movie distorts the real story of the Hospital, the sickness wasn't what they say. The girls are the typical in the horror movies, the black woman, the unknown, the playboy, the good friend and the blonde girl. And obviusly, the good man who can save their lifes. It uses a lot the images to make a chilling atmosphere, but It doesn't work.Horrible, one of the worst movies I've ever seen.The best: it's funny to see how you can predict all the deaths. The worst: everything.
boring, not scary, complete waste of time
posted on 04 Aug 2009Well when i browse through movies, titles with 'death' in the name usually appeal to me so i looked up death tunnel on IMDb. I watched the trailer and it seemed adequate so i watched it. Oh how naive i was.The concept of the film itself is pretty good: A haunted building where 5 slutty girls have to spend 5 hours in. The actual acting, directing, camera shots and effects were extremely poor. They over used the splicing scary image effect excessively and they seemed to use the soundtrack too much to be creepy. The acting drains any hope of there being a decent scene and the way they went for the stereotypical hoe bags just seemed to kill the movie even more.I can surely say that this film was a waste of effort and made with amateur skills of movie making.give it a miss.
I wouldn't even call this a movie
posted on 23 Jul 2009Throughout this ultra stupid movie you keep asking 'why was this produced?' I have seen far better first-time-directing college films. It is right up there with the 10 worst productions ever made. I'll bet they didn't even watch the finished product before they released it...if they had, then nobody would have released it. The editors must have been so drunk that somehow this mess amounted to something to them. It's not even 'funny' bad, it is just unbelievably bad. Get your refund and get it fast, no one should have to actually pay to see this, let alone be made to see this for free. I suppose if you were very very high, this bilge might seem entertaining, otherwise - someone please make this go away.
Abysmal
posted on 19 Jul 2009Pitiful acting, incomprehensible editing, cliché "scares", terrible story and a thoroughly pointless waste of time. Better acting has been observed in high school dramas than in this messy, amateurish effort. The only redeemable feature of this bomb is the location. This is very poor film making at its very worst. It's like "House on Haunted Hill" mated with an 80's teen aged sex/slasher romp and bore a hideously deformed mess of half-naked horse-faced women and a shockingly unimaginative plot story unsuccessfully held together by effects that one could enjoy watching a movie made by teenagers who have access to a camera, a computer and a spooky location. Did I mention this movie sucks? AVOID.Note: Many of the "reviews" for this incredibly poor film seem to be written by people who actually worked on this film or were hired to promote it. Go read a book or watch something that will leave you with something besides the vague sense of being robbed of 90 minutes of your life that you'll never get back.
A lesson on how NOT to make a film
posted on 03 Jul 2009I was bedridden for a week because I sprained my spine, and the whole time I went through literally dozens of movies; this one pales them all.Some movies are so boring they make you sleep. Not this one. It's stuttered with screams and "horrific" images to keep you awake. In the end you just want to swear. Never mind the plot, it's based loosely on the idea that ghosts of the past somehow contrived to lead the characters to this haunted place, but don't expect any twists and turns -- the only ones you'll get is the camera direction which is nauseating to say the least.If you have seen a couple of five-year-olds trying to scare you, then you'll have a good idea of what Messrs Booth & Booth was trying to do here. As scary as a tooth fairy.I've read another commenter saying he wants his 90 minutes back. How right he was. I'd like the same with compensation if you please. Someone else says at least some of the actresses are nice, well IMHO he should've gotten himself a Playboy or Penthouse movie instead. For me, well I would've given it a 0 (zero) if IMDb let me, that's how bad it is....
The only scary thing is that there is no plot at all
posted on 29 Jun 2009I guess it takes about 30 minutes to realise this film has absolutely no point and no story. There's a loosely draped multiple story line there somewhere, but it just turns into some 80 pop-video with loud music and some film played backwards every so often. It's basically like someone getting a new video editing system and wanting to try all the different effects. These different effects don't actually mean anything to the non-existent plot, but they are there, just to show what's on offer.As I mentioned after 30 minutes it dawns on you like an anvil hitting your face that actually this is isn't another version of Saw, its just crap.In the running for worst film ever made.0/10.
have to check out this place
posted on 13 Jun 2009i kinda really enjoyed this movie once it got going, trouble is it took a little while to get going but once it did , i was satisfied, i thought it was better than average, probably because it was based on a true story, although i felt they could have done it a little differently, the idea of teen and 20 something girls running around half naked and getting killed was good. the real place is supposed to be located somewhere near louisville, kentucky, which i went through earlier this year. anyways, i think that the flashbacks were very good here, it is a little campy in some ways but hey what can you expect, one thing that i did like was the death mask, and the tunnel at the end of the movie, i would watch it again though.
Oh.My.God...
posted on 05 Jun 2009utter utter crap!!!! We read the box and were grossly naieve to believe that the description was in any way remotely what we watched - we have just polluted our minds - Give me Tequila!!!!!! This is possibly the worst movie ever made I would rather sit and watch grass grow - grow you good thing grow!!! - The Producers, Messrs Booth, obviously did not get any action in college and frequently fantasised about skanky scantily clad morons with nothing to recommend them but their silicon enhanced boobs/lips!!! The story line was regurgitated from a blender and you should be ashamed of yourselves for steeling several horror story lines and calling it entertainment!!! The claim "based on true events..." is nothing more than an actual true event stolen from a documentary which left 5 girls in Waverly Hills Sanitorium overnight! None of them actually died!!!! I am sure that the people who died from TB would be overjoyed at the use of their suffering and that of the nurses who committed suicide - you pigs!!!!! one last warning if you have not already subjected your poor poor brain to this attrocity then DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES - drugs won't help- watch it!! Thank god NZs cinemas did not bother wasting box office time with this, we are truly blessed - If you really want to watch horror with an intelligent and entertaining story line check out Peter Jacksons earlier movies pre Lord of the Rings!!!!
Makes me want to punish my genitals
posted on 03 Jun 2009I have done a horrendous act of terror... I have bought this steaming pile of warm donkey dump and worse than that I watched it (mostly). Even if I stab my eyes out with an icepick right now, there is no way to erase the memories. If I could swap these memories with more pleasant ones, like being raped in prison or something, than that would be great. But I have not been to prison yet, so I can not do that. But you can... so if you have been to prison than keep your sunshine love thoughts and skip this film. I would rather curl up into a ball and be forced to smell my own filth for 13 hours a day than ever see this crap again. The only tunnel that this movie has anything in common with is the one that connects my stomach to my anus.
Oh, The Pain, The Horror, The Incredulous Stupidity of it all!
posted on 20 May 2009This movie sucked, from beginning to end. From a poorly written script, to less than mundane acting talents, this movie was horrible. I would've rather not seen this movie done at all, in contrast to doing it this badly. All the hot babes in here aren't even really that hot. They do injustice to the movie's credibility yet further. Although I still don't see how that can be humanly possible. This looks entirely like Z-Grade trash, that should've been carted.... ahem, flushed down the "death tunnel" long ago. By the way, what's with the rip-off of the hospital's logo? I guess the Booth brothers, if that's the name they've actually been brave enough to go around using after this sham of a film, call themselves, need to go learn something more useful in today's society, like dumpster diving. It was less ingenious in using it to gather the screen material for this one!
Usual Potential... Thrown Away
posted on 12 May 2009Going on the build up this film had the potential plot and story to make quite a good horror. The stories you'd hear as a kid about haunted places and you'd wanna go check out. With the disturbing "based on true events" motive and eerie past you could think, hey this could be good.Then the direction, camera-work, sound, acting and a storyline that had no idea where to go is completely outrageous and ruins this film completelyI'm sure a lot of this movie was shot on a blue screen in order to create a dull dark background most of the time while the actors were clear to see and if that's true... blegh! And what about shooting on film, yeah it costs money but it gives results!!
Good plot idea, but fell short.
posted on 22 Apr 2009I have seen way worse movies, but it was okay. The idea was a good one and they could have made it into a really good movie,like session 9The actors pretty much sucked and the fake accents were total crap, but I didn't expect much on that part anyway. It is a pretty creepy movie though and it had a few scenes that made me jump & look over my shoulder.It had some nudity and blood which is always a plus for me. But I am getting real frustrated with all these movies that could rock but end up being kinda lame.I'm a sucker for old abandoned loony bins though, so I had to watch it. And I really wasn't all that disappointed.I would say if you like Silent Hill or movies of that type you MIGHT find it enertaining.
Biggest load of s*** i have ever seen
posted on 14 Apr 2009This is one of the worst movies i have ever seen. What in the name of god is going on???? This cannot have been approved by anyone before it was put out on VHS/DVD. Maybe the people who made it, burned the dvds themselves and just started giving them away!?!? One of the first scenes made me laugh so hard, in front of the school; where the 3 girls are talking about the frat party. It looked like it was filmed and directed by 2 10 year old.And later on in the movie, where one of the brain dead blonde's walked into an elevator. The closeup of the bottom half of her face, reminded me of the "blair witch project" spoof. It looked so silly.Right on until the end, mostly at the end, i kept saying to myself, this is a joke, plot twist coming any second..... And it all turns out to be a big joke done by the girls to fool the last 2 retards alive.................. Then end credits appeared. and i just started laughing!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Death Tunnel
posted on 10 Apr 2009iarepacman's observations are spot on.. this is a real chore to get through once you realise that there's no well thought out plot or story progression.. just a bunch of random scenes thrown together with a loose link. Why bother writing about it then? Well because it is a real shame.. the locations, filming, editing and production design are absolutely top notch.. this could have been a truly terrifying and entertaining film but it's let down severely by the script... what could have been a classic ends up being a good looking mess and waste of 2hrs of your life... if they do make Death Tunnel 2... let someone else write the screenplay and PLEASE give it some progressive structure that makes sense...
Do you like ghost stories? Then avoid this.....BIGTIME
posted on 15 Mar 2009Okay....so the concept of a movie set at the Waverly Hills Sanatorium sounds good on the surface, the idea of just seeing this structure, like seeing Danvers State Mental Asylum in "Session 9" is a terror inducing thought to begin with. So....let loose a horror movie to delve into the history of this place, and you should have a diamond of a ghost story.I'll begin with the things I LIKED about "Death Tunnel"....1) The idea 2) The setting 3).................uh This movie is a shell of embarrassment, it could have been excellent, and the beginning credits to the movie, with newspaper cuttings of the history of the place, alongside ghostly screams and such is a good start, but thats where it ends. The actresses and actors are some of the worst I've ever seen in my life, the dialogue is pathetic and the musical "score" if you can call it that, is like something out of a toilet.I will urge anyone with any will to live to AVOID this movie like the "disease" that the concept deals with. It is truly a waste of 90 minutes, and in my case.....I will never get that time back.The writers, Christopher Saint Booth and Philip Adrian Booth should be ashamed of themselves for this cinematic travesty, they had previously directed and produced what is supposed to be a stunning documentary on Waverly Hills (Spooked), so this is just a kick in the teeth to anyone who expected something factual, something haunting...Hell, even something worth £5.
Death Tunnel...Status - Terrible.
posted on 23 Feb 2009So I saw 'Death Tunnel' on the shelves of Blockbuster video, and from the cover, it looked fairly decent, as 2005 seems to have been a big year for horror genre releases.This is the worst movie I have ever seen. Honestly. I own a movie somewhere along the lines of 'Revenge of the Radioactive Reporter' that I bought for a laugh... and it was better than 'Death Tunnel'.This movie has no consistent plot. The middle is at the beginning, wait, flashback! Now the plot is partially explained. Nope, flashback to what's happening, or has happened - we don't really know. In fact, this movie has so many flashbacks, you begin to forget where the hell the movie is going. Not only that, this movie appears to have been shot on crappy quality, low frame film. It almost looks like PAL(25 fps) footage film sped up to NTSC speeds (29 fps).The quality of the acting, shots and general dialogue were less than amateur. I think it's safe to say that the 'editor' was extremely inexperienced. If you can follow this movie from start to finish, and gather a fairly good understanding of it, either you're very gifted, or you're someone involved with the production of this movie.Please, do yourself a favor and stay away from this movie. There is no value of any kind in this film. At all.
Fragmented
posted on 23 Feb 2009This review is going to be a hard one to write, simply because of how confusing this movie truly was. It was so terrible, that the movie wasn't even laughable, it went beyond bad-funny.Well, first the good aspects of this movie. It had a few good scares and a really creepy setting. The abandoned hospital/mental asylum setting usually never fails to creep me out.That's all I can say for the good aspects of this movie! Now starting with the bad...I swear that the only actors/actresses that they hired were good looking models with no idea how to act. The main character (I forgot her name, and don't care to check) was by far the worst actress in the entire movie. The Plot also was HEAVILY Fragmented, with absolutely no direction and made no sense...to a point where I can't even remember what the movie was all about (I actually was watching this movie too, and not skipping any parts). The special effects were very outdated and straight from a 1992 Nickalodeon show, you'll see what I mean if you decide to watch.That's truly all that I remember from this movie, but watch at your own risk. Luckily I watched this movie for free.
Dear god...
posted on 11 Feb 2009Well... a friend of mine went to the videostore and came back with two DVD's. Hostel and DeathTunnel. Well okay, we first watched Hostel and after that DT. And I must say... I don't know what's worse1) Actually being tortured by some maniac like in Hostel or 2) Watch DeathTunnel...I mean, Jesus Christ! I didn't even see the whole movie and that is rare! I always try to watch the whole movie, even if it sucks but this... this was a whole new dimension. if the Nazi's would have used films to torture people THIS is what they would come up with.I feel sorry for my TV that it actually had to display this crap so my advice for people is avoid at all costs! Unless, of course, you like to torture yourself. As I said before, I didn't watch the whole movie, I bailed out at like 1 hour and the funny thing is.. I didn't see a goddamn DeathTunnel. The movie itself was a death tunnel.. So why did they call it Death Tunnel! There is NO significant storyline at all! The one 'scary' effect after the other pops up but not a single one actually scares you. The one thing that did scare me was the moment I looked at my DVD player and noticed that one solid hour of my day was wasted. Well, you get the point now.
Deathtunnel
posted on 05 Feb 2009i bought this film, for the front cover 4 foxy ladies in a horror film, very shallow of me, but you know how it is. anyways i thought the film had a good look about it, and that was it. Rubbish acting, rubbish story, Based on true events my white ass. avoid the film, unless you star in it and you want to see yourself, the only plus is a few nice looking leading ladies. The story reminded me of "Saw", even though i don't like saw i would say it is great compared to this.end of story. end of review.by the way - why was it called death tunnel - when the tunnel has no major part in the film, and is only in the last 5 minutes of the film
Almost as horrible as Episode One"The Muppet Menace"
posted on 18 Aug 2009Never did a movie have so much potential and look so good on the box, but turn out to be so completely lousy! Wait a minute, there is Star Wars Episode One! We can talk about that loser later though. Back to Death Tunnel this should be listed under horrible films not horror films. Let's start with the plot! No really give us a plot. Please oh please give us a plot. There is no blasted plot!! The title should have been The Amazing Breast with no Brains Tunnel"! I kept hopping they would hurry up and kill the stupid girls and start the real movie. This DVD proves the old adage, "great breast can never make up for terrible acting and no stinking plot!" That's what I always say anyway. I think I can say honestly that there is not one decent camera angle in the entire ordeal. It was just one silly camera trick after another. I didn't get the villain guy or whatever he or it was. Even the music was confusing with scary music at non scary times and vise versa. You might want to leave this one on the shelf. I would suggest poking yourself in the eye, it's less painful.