Red Sands

This movie is about a few soldiers alone in the desert who either kill each other or die mysteriously. The end.

This movie lacks the cause then effect that a horror movie needs in order to create tension and suspense. (and interest!) There is absolutely no connection between the incident with the statue and what follows in the movie. None. If you didn't read the press release, you'd never geddit.

The continuity of the movie is so bad you can snip it up and watch the scenes in any sequence. The story doesn't develop at all.

No new facts come to light as the movie progresses. At the end, we are in the same position as at the beginning, so it's kinda pointless that the director puts the last scene at the beginning.

There is no realization, no new understanding, no process of discovery. The only clues are provided by Shane West's dreams - and even then, they are sketchy anecdotes that fade too soon.

Mercedes Masohn's role could have been deleted from the movie without losing anything at all.

The deleted scenes on the DVD include a longer version of the Goat Herder scene that connects better to the rest of the movie.

Maybe I'm just too intelligent to be watching this genre?

Decent actors, Passable Story, Effects are Mediocre at best. This movie pulled off a great Opening. Gets a bit unrealistic during the middle. Ending is sub-par. Direction was good. For a B-Budget movie this isn't that bad. It did get kind of slow at some scenes. The girl wasn't very scary. But you do get that creepy kind of feeling. The Music Soundtrack is Good. Has a cool vibe to it. The Sound Effects were dull and used.

The Thumbs up for this movie are, Interesting and Unique Story, Cool Music and Creepy moments.(no jumpers)

The Thumbs Down for this movie are, Dull Sound Effects, Not very Scary for a Thriller, Gets boring in the middle.

Its fresh on the market, but its mostly just another one of those Friday night movies to see with your buds.

RED SANDS follows a group of soldiers stationed in the Iraqi desert, during their stay strange things begin to happen when a mysterious woman stumbles into their camp.

The film has a very slow pace, something one of my friends found extremely frustrating about this film, during the first act it seemed that the storyline was almost non existent up until the strange woman stumbles into the soldiers hideout, then after that the film started to build this very unsettling tension that has you thinking there's something out there but you just don't know what it is, and it also sets an unnerving mood with the soldiers slowly but surely beginning to lose it, the acting is good considering the minimal character development, the cast clearly didn't have much to work with but they pulled of a decent job.

Overall, a good movie if you're the patient kind, but I can say that a lot of people will find the slow pace rather frustrating, because most of the time it will feel like there's no storyline, but its there, like I said if you're the patient kind.

Red Sands is a (cheap) remake of a French movie called Djinns. Both remind me of The R Point (without reaching it) : horror/psycho/thriller war movies

If you have not watched Djinns, then you will like Red Sands or find it OK (that's if you like this sort of horror/psycho/thriller war movies). It is tense, and the scenery makes it tense too. So if you like Red Sands, i strongly recommend you watch Djinns (taking place in the 60's during Algeria War)

But if you have watched Djinns fist (like me), you will be disappointed by Red Sands : it is too cheap, the plot is not as developed, not as tense as in Djinns, well in 3 words : not as good.

well, being a horror movie buff, this movie was a great disappointment!! there was nothing that jumped out at me, from the comments made i decided to watch this movie and from the beginning it was boring and no plot!! i sat through this thinking it would get better but it just got worse!! it was slow, no action, or anything else as i continue to sit through it, my suggestion, don't waste your precious time on this ridiculous movie! i tried very hard to give this movie a chance and give it the benefit of the doubt, but honestly, watching as many movies as i have this one was so bad, i wish i could give it a better rating but i don't want to have someone like myself to waste there time and energy as trust me it was in fact one of the worst movies i have seen and i have seen some pretty bad ones, please don't waste your time!!!!!