The Tunnel

For those complaining about this flick, you can do better than "another shaky camera film," or "Blair Witch rip-off." LAME.

"Found footage" as a genre, has certain repetitive attributes - thus, a GENRE. You know, like "film noir," "slasher," "50s musical," etc. This film punches all of the expected buttons - and does it quite well.

The tunnel chases (or escapes) are incredibly tense. The set-up for the whole film makes complete sense. It's not a bunch of @#$%#@ jerks acting idiotic. It's a news crew with a legitimate reason for being underground.

The only thing that bothers me a bit - being a news crew, this footage would have gone viral, and created a sensation. Just ending with "the authorities and police closed the case," really isn't satisfactory. Regardless, it's a great found footage GENRE addition.

Watch it.

Found footage has been done to death, but this is a lot more interesting than your usual shaky cam.

Decent premise with an intriguing antagonist.

Where this falls down is the documentary format of them cutting away to explain what happened. Plus the sad documentary music that plays over scenes where it doesn't belong and takes you out of the movie.

This is a really well made found footage horror about a cover up by the Sydney government and the documentarians who seek to expose them. Things do not go according to plan when the crew go underground only to discover the politicians were right to abort all plans. I won't say any more for fear of spoilers.

I gave this a 7 because I found it really effective and claustrophobic. The filmmakers explain early on why they are filming everything which covers all bases, I find sometimes in found footage horror this sort of thing takes you out of the experience especially when there's only supposed to be one camera but there end up being multiple camera angles, this film does a good job of explaining that.

My only criticism is there is a character called Tangles which I found to be a rather hilarious sounding name. There is a point in the film where they are looking for him screaming out his name and I couldn't help but laugh as this part of the movie is supposed to be serious but the sound of another man shouting "Tangles!!!" Over and over again had me in stitches.

All in all a solid found footage horror with a daft character name that distracted me.

TANGLES!!!!!!

WOAH..... really wanted to switch this movie off as I was practically on the floor I was that much on the edge of my seat! I'm not really into he shaky camera/found footage movies as the majority of them lack creativity and seem to copy off one another and end up relying on cheap scares or the same old jump out of your seat scenes..

This was something else, I was shaking at one point and was finding myself wanting to turn it off, making excuses to walk out the room just so I could compose myself.....as wimpy as I sound, i'm a massive horror fan, but this movie had me quite a nervous wreck!!!!! I can't praise this movie enough and would definitely recommend to horror fans alike!

I'm not going to lie... I downloaded this movie as soon as it was released (legally, look it up) and before watching it I didn't have high hopes for it. A *free* horror movie? How much effort could possibly have gone in to it?

Apparently a lot.

While the actors were fantastic and the set was amazing, what truly blew me away was the sound. Just the oppressive silence broken only by drips or footsteps. Sound can really make or break a horror film and in this case I can honestly say it worked!

As a general rule, if you hate "found footage" movies such as Paranormal Activity, The Blair Witch Project and Quarantine then give this one a miss. Otherwise by all means have a look! It's free! I know for a fact that I will be buying the DVD as soon as possible.