Unearthed Movie
Storyline
TAGLINES
Some secrets should stay buried.
Nothing stays buried forever
An unknown creature terrorizes an archeological dig in the middle of a desolate New Mexico town.
| Emmanuelle Vaugier | Annie |
| Luke Goss | Kale |
| Beau Garrett | Caya |
| Charles Q. Murphy | Hank |
| Tonantzin Carmelo | Nodin |
| Whitney Able | Ally |
| Tommy Dewey | Charlie |
| M.C. Gainey | Rob Horn |
| Russell Means | Grandpa |
| Miranda Bailey | Carla |
| Ric Barbera | Curtis |
| Chris Andrew Ciulla | Kelly |
| Jason Hamer | Jason |
| Jim Jepson | Ranch Hand |
| Mark Kelly | Frank |
| Matthew Leutwyler |
5.20 out of 10 (151 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Aliens and Native Americans should never be this boring
posted on 22 Jul 2009A remote town in the American Southwest faces a terror that has been buried and forgotten. Only the wisdom of the Native American people, and a few shotguns and other weapons, can save the world.Or something like that. What is promised to be a strong horror film, that is as one of the "8 Films to Die For", Unearthed is actually a bore that lacks any real drive and delivers a clichéd plot. What made someone want to include this in the "8 Films" group is beyond me.Sheriff Ann Flynn (Emmanuelle Vaugier) is on her last leg both job wise and emotionally. After an accident which leads to her responsibility for the death of a young child, Sheriff Flynn finds herself questioned by the people who she is supposed to serve. In particular Rob Horn (M. C. Gainey), a powerful rancher, seems determined to end her short lived career as sheriff. With lack of support it seems that Flynn will be out of a job.Nodine (Tonantzin Carmelo) and her grandfather (Russell Means) are two of the few friends that Flynn has left. Native Americans who live outside of the town where Nodein's grandfather runs a small gas station, Nodine herself is preoccupied with her botanical work while her grandfather spends time with his pottery. Their lives are quiet and calm and otherwise devoid of anything threatening.That is until one night a mysterious accident leaves a trucker dead and the town without power. It seems that somehow an alien creature, one that was responsible for the near extinction of the Anasazi (yes those Anasazi who disappeared "suddenly from history), has returned. Grandfather, who along with a mysterious former professor named Kale (Luke Goss), are the only ones who know how to defeat the aliens and save humanity once more. Using the wisdom of the Anasazi, who somehow managed to defeat it before with no technology, it is hoped that the alien can once more be defeated.Unearthed, however, is a complete failure in terms of horror. The violence and gore where Horn, some town people, a few strangers stuck at the gas station, and some cows are killed by the aliens and consumed from the inside out, is typical of low budget horror films. The plot itself tapers off into a few inexplicable chase scenes which by the end of the movie seem redundant and, well, boring. Unearthed is typical of such a movie and a weak plot doesn't help. The actors gave their best but when there is nothing really to work with there isn't much that can be done. Unearthed should remain buried.5/10
Not just bad, but the worst movie ever!
posted on 20 Jul 2009If I was a junior high A/V Teacher, and my students made this, I would expel them.I've seen porn movies with more interesting characters, more realistic plot lines, better dialogue and less groaners. No amount of drugs or alcohol could make this a decent movie.The monster, or whatever it was, looks like it came from the old "Adventures of Hercules Show," which is an insult to Kevin Sorbo. The editing is so fast it is impossible to see what is going on. A few posts have been enamored by the blood and gore, but unless you have hummingbird-like reflexes or a slow-motion button you would never be able to see them. Literally, it's a split second and they scenes are over.Please, save your money and your time.
I want an hour and a half of my life back!
posted on 12 Jul 2009Picture the scene: it's do or die for the main protagonists, and of the four people watching in my living room, one is filing her nails; one is writing a text message; one is reading the label on a beer bottle and one (me) is really embarrassed about choosing this film.And I chose because the trailer looked really good. Oh, how wrong I was. What the trailer doesn't show is that the characters are stereotypes, the special effects are sub-par and the whole film is just so damn boring it is unbelievable.Now, I watch a lot of horror films, and a lot of them are bad, but I can usually see something good about them. Not this one. Boring, boring, boring. Don't waste your time or your money.
Some movies should stay buried
posted on 04 Jul 2009Do not bother seeing this movie. It is too dark to see and what you can see is often the ground beneath the cameraman's feet, the dialogue is too inaudible to even hear who is being killed, and the plot makes no sense whatsoever. It is clear that the screenwriter saw Aliens and Tremors too many times and likes movies like Night of the Living Dead, Identity and Reeker in which random groups of people come together to meet their doom. It is also clear that the screenwriter has none of the sense of camp that made Feast, Slither, Reeker, Demon Night etc. fun if not great films.This movie is not even up to the level of a BAD made for Sci-Fi channel movie, and makes less sense. Stay away. Compared to this, Catwoman was Oscar worthy.
Dire
posted on 28 Jun 2009This film is absolute rubbish. I don't know what "training" this filmmaker had but it couldn't have been much. The camera work was so bad that 75% of the time I had no bloody idea what was going on. The lead actress - who plays an angsty drunken sheriff - looks like the lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls and mistakes scowly for sullen. I'm sure they cast her simply on her looks. The plot is abysmal. An archaeologist awakens some ancient creature that starts killing. Boy, that's original. "Relic" anyone? But this is just dire. The creature is so obviously CGI, and there is no purpose for most of what it does. At some point you might think it would get tired of eating. Ha ha. What told me that the film was beyond repair was when one guy gets shot and in the next scene is running around. Russell Means is in this stinker. Why, Russell, why? Avoid this film or at least bring a pillow to the cinema. It will put you to sleep.
a disaster on every level
posted on 02 Jun 2009I went into this film despite the bad press it was getting because I liked Deada nd Breakfast and I like Emmanuel Vaugier and I'm a big fan of horror flicks and horror fest in general. But this film felt so amateur poorly written, filmed, acted, constructed. The film is confusing and pretty plot less and features some of the worst CGI I've ever seen it looks like the cgi beasties of the castlevania Nintendo game. I usually am open to pretty much everything. But you have to drawn the line somewhere and this film if you can call it that is far past it.Do yourself a favor and miss this so the once promising director could try and make up for this attrocity.
93 Minutes of Wasted Time
posted on 29 May 2009This movie was playing at the Union Station cinema in Washington, at 7:30 on a Saturday night. The place should have been completely packed, but it was nearly empty. We soon learned why.Unearthed has a generic, by-the-numbers plot crammed full of the same old tired horror-movie clichés. It had no direction to speak of. The camera work was amateurish at best, and the dialog nearly incoherent. The camera was pointing all over the place, providing an occasional glimpse of something like a face, a vehicle, or a building. Most scenes were too dark and cluttered to make out anything clearly.Don't even imagine that this stuff belongs in the "so-bad-it's-good" category. Those movies at least have some originality, humor (even if it's unintentional), and other qualities that make them stand out. They are the kind of movies that people remember, whether they want to or not. Unearthed has nothing worth remembering. I can barely recall even one single scene; the only thing I can remember clearly is waiting for it to be over. It seemed to drag on for several hours or more.Very soon, this thing will be dead, buried, and totally forgotten. May it rest in peace--FOREVER.
Could'a been good, but made every effort to be bad.
posted on 25 May 2009Let me preface this review by saying, while there may be some plot spoilers contained below, I doubt that if I transcribed the script word-for-word I would spoil the movie for anyone. The director/producers managed to spoil this movie quite well on their own.OK, a movie about an archaeological dig unearthing some ancient creature that starts killing people stranded in the area. Certainly nothing original there, but, ya never know. The director may come up with some new twists. Well, if the director did, he did an impressive job of not sharing it with the audience. Nor did he make any attempt to reveal whatever he had in mind for tying all the unidentified story-lines behind the characters together. Characters are barely introduced at the beginning of the movie, and there is but a hint of character development for anyone but Sheriff Annie.As far as the filming goes, I've seen camera phone recordings of higher quality than was used in this movie. Apparently, the director dealt with a shoe-string budget by making extensive use of shaky out-of-focus shots whenever there's action, the monster attacking people, people running, caves collapsing, etc. And in today's film-making age, where night shots are shot in daylight/artificial light and then darkened on a computer in the editing room, this film nonetheless shoots it's night scenes outside at night using cheesy night-vision filters. How innovative. Let the audience barely see what's going on so they can feel like they're truly in the dark.The computer graphics are state of the art....were this still 1992. It's blatantly apparent that one of the director's favorite films is Alien3, as the monster graphics look like he pulled old footage of the alien scampering along the walls from the David Fincher film. And worse than that, he copies the scene in which the alien moves its face close to Sigourney Weaver by having Unearthed's monster, dripping goo from its mouth and all, move its head close to the face of a cringing Tonantzin Carmelo (who is covered in radioactive muck, yet never seems the least bit bothered to be so). What's really sad is, the real creature apparatus which is used in only a handful of shots did look well-crafted. However, most of the scenes of the creature are such pitiful CGI, they make made-for-Sci-Fi channel movie special effects look good.Had any effort been made to develop the characters, explain what was really going on with them early in the film, and some legitimate filming done instead of rough-shod disjointed quick cuts and camera angles, this COULD have been a decent film.
This is not the 2004, UNEARTHED by Tom Savini...
posted on 21 May 2009I swear to God, and all that is holy, there should be a lawsuit against the so called 8 films to die for franchise, as each one of these pieces of garbage I've seen has simply gotten worse, and worse.I watched Unearthed, and thought, wow, this looks familiar. SURE ENOUGH... the same film was made in 2004 by Tom Savini, only in this case, the names were changed to protect the talented.There are reasons why God has given us natural selection and handguns, and one of those reasons is so that stupid films like this, with retarded actors won't be made.If I see one more stereotypical Native American Shaman type in film, putting something in the palm of someone's hand, AND THEN CLOSING IT LIKE IT'S MEANINGFUL, I swear to God... I don't know what film started that cliché, but I wish it would stop. You have a cast of characters that were literally pulled off the short bus, obligatory black pimp wannabe who would trade his VETTE, for a horse to get out town, yet has no reason to do so, save for a medical supply deal that has to be kept cool. Oddly enough, no development on that front what so ever. When you introduce an artifact, or something has prominence in a film, there has to be some kind of explanation. NOPE. Apparently the guy who made this film went to the same film school that UWE Boll and every other retarded hack went to.This movie is proof that a movie studio will literally throw money at anyone who can write something crappy.The first time this film was made, it was okay. This time around, apparently they wanted a movie that they could show to the mentally handicapped so they could build their self esteem.
O death, where is thy stingalingling
posted on 17 May 2009These scuzzball horror flicks share the same handful of shopworn techniques and stock characters. In this case, there are the dimly lit interiors and nocturnal exteriors, the cartoonish "urban" black guy, the cute but ditzy starlet-wannabe, the noble Native American, the don't-mess-with-me hardass, the alarmed scientist nobody listens to until it's too late, the "Alien" ripoff monster, the interminable and absolutely pointless conversations and creeping around cluttered sets -- and, last but not least, one character who's gone all guilty and depressed and alcoholic over some mistake he or she once made, and who, we have to admit, would probably be better off dead. In this movie, it's ***************SPOILER ALERT*************** the lady sheriff, whose flashbacks about the little girl she accidentally killed make it very clear that she will sacrifice herself in the end to kill the monster and save her friends. Which she does. The scientist and the ditzy blond survive, everyone else is killed. And most of the time when there's a sudden noise and everyone spins around and points their guns at it, it's just one of the other characters tripping over something. Also, I think it has something to do with nuclear testing (it takes place in New Mexico), so it's kind of a Godzilla movie underneath it all. There, now you don't have to see it.
Much more entertaining than expected
posted on 28 Mar 2009"Unearthed" is a rather entertaining, if mildly flawed, creature feature.**SPOILERS**Near an Indian Reservation, Sheriff Annie Flynn, (Emmanuelle Vaugier) is sent out to find out the reason for a local power outage, and along with Deputy Luis, (Isait De La Fuente) they find the cause to be a wrecked truck. Discovering a strange worm at the site, she runs it through Nodin, (Tonantzin Carmelo) who discovers that it's an undiscovered species that had appeared from a suspended-animation state and was released by archaeologist Kale, (Luke Goss) to help him with his theories on the local Indian tribes in the area. When the creature attacks, forcing Caya, (Beau Garrett) Ally, (Whitney Able) Hank, (Charles Q. Murphy) Charlie, (Tommy Dewey) and Rob Horn, (M.C. Gainey) others at the location out into the desert to try to get away, they realize they have a way of getting rid of the creature once and for all.The Good News: There was some good stuff here in this one. One of the best parts to it is the fact that there's a rather great pace which is achieved through several big, high-impact action scenes that are strewn throughout. The first big attack, at the gas station where everyone is stored at as they're unaware of what's going on at the time, is a lot of fun and one of the better scenes. From the general chaos of the moment to the tactics used by the creature to get into the location and some rather well-done counteractions that provide plenty of excitement, this one gets the film rolling along nicely and gets the job done well in forcing the film to move along. That there's a violent death and some fine pyrotechnics don't hurt the scene either. The other big attack, out in the desert during the campfire, is one of the best aspects of the film, managing to make the encounter much better than it had any right to be with tons of great features. From the sheer unexpectedness of the initial confrontation with the creature appearing out of nowhere to the intensely creepy and sheer thrilling cat-and-mouse chase within the caves nearby, which are played through one of the most clever tactics ever to make it all the more chilling, and finally the escape attempt and dash for safety is handled well and never once loses anything about it. That it's an extended scene, without shortening it considerably for no reason at all, is highly worthwhile and is needed to make it something to enjoy. The last half, which is the confrontation at the barn, is slightly smaller in scope but still good enough to believably end the film on a high note, and the resulting revelation is a nice twist. It's also quite nice that the film decides to have a rather impressive creature in here to carry all those scenes, but just tweaked visually to appear threatening and yet familiar at the same time. That it's used as a build-up to it's appearance as a shock is rather nice, making it's initial revelation actually a positive point since it's about tying everything together rather than already knowing beforehand. It also has quite a nice back-story, much more detailed than expected and a lot is learned about it but it's still an overall mystery, which is nice. The last plus is the few kills on-screen being quite graphic, with a spike impaling in the head, a scratched-up chest, some slashes across the body and one swarmed and devoured. All of these make the film quite fun and enjoyable.The Bad News: There wasn't a whole lot here that really didn't work. One of the big ones is that the film is so dark during most of it's scenes that it's hard to understand what's going on. The fact that the last half of the film takes place at night is something major to handle with this one, as the fact that the darkness already is quite limiting, then to set it out in the desert where it's darker than normal compounds that even more, then to top it off there's the fact that the creature in here is black, which is the topper of it all and makes the whole thing so hard to impossible to see clearly. The other big flaw is the fact that there's hardly any kills on-screen, which is compounded by two issues. The first goes back to the darkness during which most of the attacks take place, the other being the fact that the early stuff has the creature tending to drag the victim off-screen with us stumbling upon the aftermath or a blood-trail emerges from the killing zone, and is repeated like this for several of the kills. There's a small couple of kills which are known definitively, and it has an affect on the film. Some of the scenes in the beginning could also be considered useless by some, but overall, those two are the big ones.The Final Verdict: With some really entertaining aspects and a couple of minor flaws, this one becomes quite enjoyable and entertaining. Really recommended for those who enjoy these kinds of creature features, are fans of the creative cast or the other films in the series, while those who don't like these should heed caution.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language
I'd rather be dead in a ditch than watch this film again.
posted on 18 Feb 2009You mention similarity to the film Relic but it seems to me that Unearthed is a slightly altered form of the story line of the popular film Tremors. The doughty townsfolk of a small, isolated town band together to battle creatures that suddenly appear from underground. The town is conveniently cut off by something blocking the only road. The creatures seem to be of this earth but unknown until now. But where Tremors had humor and excitement and great special effects, this film has nothing. While watching Tremors it's easy to believe these creatures are real. While watching Unearthed I was constantly jarred by changes in sound level and inexplicable changes in mood from a psychological study of a young, female sheriff to a typical monster slasher film with odd bits of Indian legend and modern science thrown in. Add the dark, fuzzy action scenes and you have a real mess. It's like a stew made by an inept cook. Go rent a copy of Tremors and avoid watching Unearthed. You'll be glad you did.
Why?
posted on 23 Jan 2009Why? why would someone make this film? why would someone want to see it?why did I see it? We have an archaeological dig with an ancient alien creature buried inside.this creature looks a lot like the xenomorph from the movie Alien! The characters where flat, even the main character there hasn't anything there.You see some flash backs that you could do without because they don't make a lot of sense and their only work the end of the film. Actually even at the end i don't think they fit!!! Also sometimes it is not easy to see what is going on in the movie, it is too dark and it moves too fast not in a scary good sense.
Limited Theatrical? This was destined for Sci-Fi channel!
posted on 19 Jan 2009I heard about Unearthed when it had only just really begun production, and thought it sounded quite good. I was mainly attracted to it because it's a Horror Movie and Emmanuelle Vaugier is the lead. It instantly sounded like a B-Movie, and looked like one, so I didn't go in expecting for the movie to be amazing - just at least good. After waiting for a release date, it was finally released at the Horrorfest. I just managed to see the movie and I am very disappointed with it. It's, in short, crap.Plot line is somewhat simple, but I just didn't care as it got so boring. A sinister crash on a highway causes cattle to begin dying and such, and a Sheriff (Vaugier) and several others find themselves being attacked by some sort of creature and find themselves fighting for survival. Sounds entertaining, but trust me it isn't. I couldn't wait for this film to finish, as it felt like it was just going on and on. They delve into the plot further in the movie as it progresses, but I honestly just past caring.The acting is good, and one of the only good aspects of the film. Vaugier is great as always, and Beau Garrett and Tonantzin Carmelo are good as well. The others are good, but those three were the only ones I was interested in as they gave the strongest performances. Luke Goss did seem kind of pointless though, and added nothing to the film. It's a shame that this movie has a range of great actors, yet they are given cardboard characters to work with. None of the characters are really remotely interesting, and Vaugier has a really pointless back-story which adds nothing to her character.The Horror itself isn't done well. The death scenes are messy and not entertaining. Most of the characters aren't interesting, as said before, so you can't wait for them to get killed. They're not even given memorable death scenes. Most of the death scenes consist of the creature popping up and just attacking and then it's done. They could have at least given us some entertaining chase scenes and ranged their deaths and not just given us little, boring attacks. The creature is OK, but nothing special at all.For some reason I had a problem with the dialogue in the movie also. When characters interact, it does not seem natural and just feels badly written in parts. The dialogue is somewhat horrible at times. Characters will be talking to each other, and then a long pause will come, and they will go onto another topic, end the conversation, cut to another scene or they'll talk to someone else or talk about something else. I gave the movie the benefit of the doubt, but then I just realized it was lazy writing and crappy character development.Unearthed unfortunately is a big mess of a movie. I actually cannot believe this got into theaters, as this is a DVD or TV movie premiere at best. Think Sci-Fi channel actually, as this feels like one of the Sci-Fi channel worthy movies - not theater worthy. I really wanted to love this for a B-Movie, but the movie is just a pile of boring crap. Uninteresting characters, bad dialogue, lazy writing, lame death scenes and just plain old boring...Unearthed is one to miss! The only positive things I can say about this are the cast, the choice of survivors and perhaps a "little" bit of entertainment in there somewhere. You'll be lucky to find that entertainment though.3/10
A Waste of Time
posted on 11 Jan 2009In the desert area of Hat Creek, cows are found partially devoured and the farmers believe that a wolf is attacking the cattle. The alcoholic Sheriff Annie Flynn (Emmanuelle Vaugier) is called by the local farmer Rob Horn (M.C. Gainey) to witness the remains of an animal to request reimbursement from the government and for an accident with a tank truck that is blocking the road. However, Annie sooner discovers that an ancient alien creature sent to annihilate life on Earth hundreds of years ago was released by the Indian Kale (Luke Goss) during an archaeological excavation in the desert. The Indian Caya (Beau Garrett) and a group of travelers stranded in the spot without gas together with Annie and Kale try to find a means to destroy the alien and save mankind.Watching "Unearthed" is a waste of time, since the forgettable story is nothing but a collection of clichés. Most of the characters are unpleasant and non-charismatic and the lead character is actually the anti-heroine Annie Flynn that is a drunken sheriff tormented by the accidental death of an Indian girl. The scene of Caya and the alien creature is another ridiculous rip-off of the classic scene of "Alien" with Sigourney Weaver. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "Aniquilação" ("Annihilation")
After 900 years it is set free.
posted on 03 Jan 2009Carnage, bloodshed and terror escalates in a desolate New Mexico community when a vicious creature is unearthed after being trapped for 900 years. An archaeological dig in the middle of town puts pressure on the local sheriff Annie Flynn(Emmanuelle Vaugier). Travelers and citizens are stranded with no gasoline to leave town. Animals and people are being ravaged while the sheriff is trying to figure out what kind of creature is causing the chaos. The desert sand turns redder as the creature tries to carry out its mission of annihilation. There is a degree of disappointment in the fact the creature is hardly ever seen. Others in the cast: Luke Goss, Charles Q. Murpher, Tommy Dewey, M.C. Gainey and introducing Tonantzin Carmelo.
Great Inspirational Film
posted on 01 Jan 2009I completely underestimated this movie; I thought that this would be another stupid zombie or plat-thing movie, where the antagonist or antagonist rises from the ground to cause mass panic and mayhem. For the most part it was true, however, there is not zombies or plants, in fact, this movie is about a Native American myth that was buried under ground after it nearly whipped out the Anasazi tribe. Much to my liking of the plot, it goes further to explain that this "thing" may not have come from this world, but another, though not directly implied. I will be boldly honest and sat that I did jump a fair amount of times though this movie and it did satisfy my need for a creature feature. The camera angles were very well done except for some parts where it was a bit too "Bourne Ultimatum," the acting was okay and the creature was a sight for sore eyes.This movie had a very Alien look and feel to it; in fact the creature looked a lot like the Xenomorphs from the Alien films intermixed with the creatures from Feast (2006). The barn scene where the "headhugger-like" thing attached to the creature is let loose is very reminiscent of the classic boiler room scene from Aliens. I enjoyed these obvious inspirational scenes and plot more that I usually do. There were some great establishing shots including silhouettes and angular shots. The film had three natural colors including green (glow stick scenes), warm colors (daylight scenes) and blue colors (night time shots). However, when the action heightens and the creature attacks, the camera goes from steady shots to shaky hand-held shots and it's hard to see what is going on. Almost keeping you on the edge of you seat and hoping to catch a glimpse of what is going on.The acting was pretty good and had some great emotional feeling to it, there where points were the acting was a bit over the top and points were it wasn't over the top as it should, but overall I enjoyed the performances by them. Russell Means, who plays Grandpa, had a very seldom part in this film, and I think he could have had a bigger role rather than getting a small part. He knows more about these things, aside from Kale, than anybody else does and seems like the kind of guy to go postal on those things. Emmanuelle Vaugier, who plays the town sheriff and drunk hits home along with Beau Garrett, who plays the female scientist and granddaughter. Luke Goss, who plays Kale, had a very strange part. He played the sadistic adventurer, who knows about those creatures and acts nasty and angry towards the survivor group, who in a split second becomes befriends them. I was hoping for a more gradual character development that in just a second or two. Nonetheless, Luke does a great job. M.C. Gainey, plays a rich rancher who is mad at the town sheriff for financial and moral issues.This movie was very well done for what seems like a low budget, this movie also does a great job blinding you with flashlights and glow sticks. When the group is walking through the caves with a flashlight, they move it directly at the camera in a split second, thereby blinding you at the same time. There were some great scares that reminded me of Neil Marshall's Descent, as a matter of fact, the cave scenes were a great tribute to that exact film. The directors where heavily influenced by some of the more classic and modern horror films and they did a great job applying those aspects to this movie. Sure there are some pretty cheesy parts (The sheriff is hot young babe, the girls seem to be more brave than the guys, it's all hot girls and only the more innocent beautiful girl survives), but other that that, this movie was pretty good.I would recommend this movie to any horror fan that loves creature features, horror-action, and Neil Marshall or Ridley Scott films. I would go as far to say that if you enjoyed Tremors or the Abyss, you would like this film. There are some great scares and I would strongly recommend this movie to any horror fan.
Unearthed joins Nightmare Man as worst movie in Horrorfest 2007.
posted on 30 Dec 2008If you read other comments, then you probably don't need me to tell you this film wasn't up to standard, but one opinion I have of the film is that its pretty dead, as I am referring to the fact that it doesn't really have any interesting characters, and the nearly incoherent dialog sounds like its being mumbled half the time.The storyline is your basic monster is unearthed and starts to kill everything from cattle to people, and that's it, and of course there's a negative side, you can barely see what goes on in half the scenes (and you don't need me to tell you that either, several other comments also agree) Overall, what I've seen from Horrorfest 2007 so far (Boderland, Tooth & Nail, The deaths of Ian Stone, Nightmare Man, Unearthed) this film and Nightmare Man both seem like the worst films in the fest.
Head for the exits........
posted on 22 Dec 2008First the good news, the movie is only 93 minutes long. Now the really good news, you can turn it off after the first half hour and spend the other hour watching your clock tick. It will prove more interesting than finishing "Unearthed". Scenes with a frantic wobbling camera that are illuminated only with flashlights and glow-sticks, will leave you in the dark about what is going on. Not that you will be missing anything, because you've seen this monster on the loose plot dozens of times already. It goes something like this, people and animals killed, more people killed, monster killed....................................... end of story. - MERK
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One of the least engaging films I've ever seen.
posted on 22 Jul 2009After a truck is destroyed on a freeway, an alcoholic police officer (Emmanuelle Vaugier) and others are terrorized by a mysterious and violent creature. As the night progresses, the group of survivors learn that the creature is not of this Earth and attempting to destroy the human race.The writer/director of Dead & Breakfast, a fun horror-comedy, and writer of the upcoming reboot of Creepshow returns with Unearthed. Giving a quick scan of the DVD case, I see what's simultaneously the worst-looking cover and most unoriginal plot of the After Dark Horror Fest so far (from both years). It sounded more like a Sci-Fi Original's plot than it did a theatrically released horror film. Hell, even Sci-Fi Originals have more creativity in their plots (who will ever forget Rock Monster?). So, without an original storyline or, at least, cool artwork, Unearthed had a lot of work to do. As expected, it didn't come through. While the acting in this one was quite a bit better than the other After Dark Horrorfest films I've seen, the stale writing and lack of risky direction made for a very boring film. I, truly, have never been less engaged by a film. I never once cared about the characters in peril. . . just hoped they would die quickly to get the film over with. The effects were, when finally seen, poorly done. There were almost no scares and even fewer moments of any suspense. Overall, there aren't really any redeeming characteristics of this film. Not enjoyable, not enough violence/gore to please horrorhounds, no sex/nudity, no spectacularly well done writing or directing. . . really nothing good at all.Final verdict: 2.5/10.