Friday, April 24, 2009

Death Tunnel (2005)

Oh death tunnel, why do you taunt me?  The movie's timeline is all over the place, causing much confusion. It is never clear whether this was done due to the movie's lack of cohesion, as an attempt to be artsy, or due to incompetence.  But what we're left with is another film that doesn't make sense and leaves too much unanswered.

Five college girls are kidnapped by a fraternity and dropped off in an old lunatic asylum.  The frat boys have put cameras and a control room in the old asylum so they can broadcast the girl's terror filled nightmare into the local bar where everyone can laugh at their fear.

The girl's are all wearing lingerie and high heels as they were grabbed at a bar having a pajama party. No I am not making that up.  There is some sort of countdown constantly going on during the film where over the loudspeaker you hear, "Five girls, five floors, five hours."  The countdown happens as the time ticks by and the girls die.

The insane asylum has a tunnel running under it where the dead were wheeled out during the plagues.  All the major characters in the film are dead ringers for the ghosts that inhabit the asylum and turn out to be their descendants.  

I can't even count all the nonsensical things that happen in this film.  As per usual, there has to be at least one girl who takes a shower in the abandoned, dirty, glass strewn, haunted asylum.  Also the lead male character tries to rescue one of the girls by climbing up the fire escape to the roof and jumping randomly right through the roof, which was hysterical. 


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