The Tunnel Movie
2012 ‘The Tunnel’ Directed by Carlo Ledesma
Synopsis
The light runs out
In 2007, in the midst of the drought and water shortages, the NSW State government has unveiled plans to tap into and recycle millions of litres of water trapped in a network of abandoned train tunnels just beneath the heart of Sydney. However the government suddenly goes cold on the plan and it is not made public why. There is talk of homeless people who use the tunnel as shelter going missing, even though the government states that there are no homeless people in there. This, and the silence from the officials and ministers, leads a journalist, Natasha to begin an investigation into a government cover-up. She and her crew Pete (Producer), Steve (Cameraman) and Tangles (Sound Technichian) decide to investigate the story in the tunnel.
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31 Days Of Horror - Day Three.
The Tunnel follows an Australian crew of journalists cameramen as they work on a story; homeless people have been going missing in a set of abandoned tunnels the government is about to start working on.
The first act, which consists mostly of just interviews (think the beginning of Blair Witch) could very well be boring, but it's realism (and a great scene with a homeless man) make it just as interesting as when they actually enter the tunnels. The film is cut with retrospective talking-heads of the characters, which is nice but it basically spoils the ending. These people are talking about the events in past tense = they are obviously going to…
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To say I wasn’t expecting much from The Tunnel is an understatement. After all, the film is available to download completely free via BitTorrent, with the full support of its creators. This documentary styled “found footage” film tells the story of a news crew that illegally gain access to abandoned train tunnels beneath Sydney in an attempt to uncover answers to a mysterious government cover-up.
The acting is surprisingly solid. There were times I got lost in the movie, forgetting that what I was watching wasn’t real, which is always a good sign. The cinematography and sound are both outstanding and manipulated to build tension incredibly well. One minor flaw I noticed though, was that the film shows interviews with…
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Had this film been released some ten years ago I would have been very impressed. It wasn't though, which unfortunately means that this well-intended low budget found footage film has a severe case of dime-a-dozenitis.
In Dutch we have this expression, de gun factor. Nothing to do with weapons, but what it basically means is that you like something because of its spirit, despite it not being really good. Whenever I watch a film like The Tunnel, that feeling always pops up. This film isn't original, it isn't particularly scary and it has serious narrative issues (knowing who dies and who doesn't in advance because of how the story is told is never a good thing in a horror film),…
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Yes it's another found footage horror, but it gripped me enough to enjoy it. The Tunnel is set in the old train tunnels in Sydney's underground. Following a news crew on the hunt for a story, they are stalked by a subterranean killer.
The Tunnel does have some effective scares and I liked the way the beast was portrayed.
Not very original, but enjoyable.
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“I can’t really describe it...There was blood…and over in the corner was Tangles’s torch…”
-Steve Miller (Steve Davis)Film 17 of 35 of The Found Footage/Mockumentary Project.
Australia has sort of exploded from relative obscurity onto the movie scene in the past decade, much like South Korea or Norway. With the likes of Chopper, Animal Kingdom and Snowtown, another country proves itself a serious contender. More recently, there has been The Tunnel, a horror flick that follows a journalist and her crew as they investigate a government cover-up in the abandoned train tunnels beneath Sydney.
It starts off very slowly, and in the same format as Alien Abduction, with long, drawling interviews and general nothingness. Now this could have become…
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Im so bored of these kind of films. The first 40 minutes was dull, so so dull, then some stuff 'kind of' happened but nothing really did. They went into the tunnel, some came out, it was always going to be that way, no surprises at all in this film. The leading lady was terrible and you never really get to see what is in the tunnels... which when nothing else is really grabbing me, may have pulled this film back from the ether. If a film starts off with a message about how the footage is real, im usually turned off straight away. I gave this a chance though aaaaaaaaaaand maybe i shouldn't have. For a film made so recently, there really should have more effort to freshen up a dying genre.
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fuck the hype
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What a complete waste of time. So many people have raved and woo'd about this movie. Have you not seen 'Lake Mungo'? If not, go ahead and do that, so you gain some perspective on how a mockumentary should be done. I'd rather watch "Lost Tapes" on Animal Planet than experience this movie again.
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This was a "free release" film and it's no wonder.
It takes approx. 30min of drib drab build up before they even enter the tunnels... then another 30 before anything happens. -
Im so bored of these kind of films. The first 40 minutes was dull, so so dull, then some stuff 'kind of' happened but nothing really did. They went into the tunnel, some came out, it was always going to be that way, no surprises at all in this film. The leading lady was terrible and you never really get to see what is in the tunnels... which when nothing else is really grabbing me, may have pulled this film back from the ether. If a film starts off with a message about how the footage is real, im usually turned off straight away. I gave this a chance though aaaaaaaaaaand maybe i shouldn't have. For a film made so recently, there really should have more effort to freshen up a dying genre.
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Well, This was a pleasant surprise! This found footage/mockumentary was done very well with very little. There were no clear shots of whatever was hunting people down in those tunnels, but I liked that. It left more to the imagination and gave more of an authentic feel. Found footage films that show too much can take away from the authentic found footage feel that makes these films work. "The Tunnel" pretty much balanced the line of leaving it to the mind and revealing it perfectly. This starts a bit slow as it builds it's story which was actually well thought out aswell as pretty believable and interesting. But, once the crew enters those tunnels, things get creepy quick! The suspense…
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Had this film been released some ten years ago I would have been very impressed. It wasn't though, which unfortunately means that this well-intended low budget found footage film has a severe case of dime-a-dozenitis.
In Dutch we have this expression, de gun factor. Nothing to do with weapons, but what it basically means is that you like something because of its spirit, despite it not being really good. Whenever I watch a film like The Tunnel, that feeling always pops up. This film isn't original, it isn't particularly scary and it has serious narrative issues (knowing who dies and who doesn't in advance because of how the story is told is never a good thing in a horror film),…
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A good horror movie.
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While not an original found footage film by any means it is certainly entertaining enough. The payoff is a bit weak but the overall slenderman like tone is enough to appease fans of found footage horror.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.