Product Description

A vicious creature that's been trapped for 900 years gets unearthed during an archeological dig in the middle of a desolate town. A s the carnage escalates the local sheriff and a group of stranded civilians must find a way to destroy the creature that only has o ne mission - complete annihilation.System Requirements:Running Time: 93 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR/MONSTERS & MUTANTS Rating: R UPC: 031398226802 Manufacturer No: 22680

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6969 in DVD
• Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
• Released on: 2008-03-18
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 93 minutes

Customer Reviews

Dim-witted creature feature
Unearthed, another disappointment from the second round of the After Dark Horror Fest, is a pure creature feature with piles of blood and gore thrown on for good measure. Too bad that Unearthed is a dim-witted and cliched ride for the most part that borrows way too heavily from other (and better) films of the genre. Emmanuelle Vaugier (Saw II, CSI: NY) stars as an alcoholic sheriff who, along with a handful of others, runs afoul of a bloodthirsty beast that looks like a cross between the Xenomorphs from the Alien franchise and the monsters from Feast. And while Unearthed is derivative as can be, it does manage to be a little bit enjoyable, and the gore effects are very nicely done. However, Unearthed ends up going down the predictable route as the film moves forward, and the cast (including Hellboy II's Luke Goss, Charlie Murphy, and MC Gainey) don't do themselves any favors either. All in all, you'll see much worse monster flicks in your life, but in the end, Unearthed, like most of the rest of the After Dark Horror Fest lineup, just isn't worth the trip.

BORING AND POORLY ACTED
After watching three of this year's After Dark Horrorfest films it's very apparent that this year's batch is a few cuts below last year's and Unearthed does nothing to raise the grade. An archaeological dig in a remote New Mexico town releases a creature that's been trapped for 900 years and it soon begins preying on the town's residents and the only road out of town has been blocked by a fuel tanker accident. Hmm, small desert town, residents trapped, a creature feasting on them...yeah, seen it before. It was called Tremors and it was vastly superior.

The town's regular residents include alcoholic sheriff Annie Flynn (Vaugier), Rancher Rob Horn (Gainey) Scientist Nodin and her grandfather (Means). A few passing motorists also find themselves trapped in the little town, all there to buy gas from the service station run by Grandpa. As Nodin tries to analyze the creature's alien DNA and find a means to kill it, Sheriff Flynn attempts to keep the rest of the survivors alive and one step ahead of the beast. I'd love to tell you what the creature looks like but that's somewhat difficult. We get only fleeting glimpses of the thing as it dashes by the camera. On top of that, much of the film takes place at night with those green glow sticks as the only source of illumination. It sort of looks like the Xenophobes from "Aliens" but done in poor CGI. Director Leutwyler borrows liberally from numerous other films including Descent, Relic, and Reeker. In fact you'd be hard pressed to find one original idea in the entire film.

Nodin eventually figures out some sort of voodoo scientific solution about the characters DNA and making a poison from uranium but by that time, I was nodding off and only wanted the film to come to a merciful end. Vaugier usually is able to give a bit of a spark to some of the low-budget films she's been in but seems completely bored here. I didn't buy her role as a guilt-stricken, alcoholic sheriff at all. Frankly she looked just too good. Gainey is a great character actor but he seemed out of place.

Leutwyler also loves doing that thing with the camera where he has it shake and bounce during some of the monster's attack scenes, presumably to make it seem more real and get the feel for the attack. It's a novelty trick that doesn't work and this, along with the choppy editing, only serves to annoy the viewer and make the creature even harder to see.

With three down and only one more for me to review, my hopes are fading fast for finding one good film in this year's group of Horrorfest releases. Borderland, please save the day!

Extras

This is another grip about this years Horrofest films. Half of them have no special features at all except for the Miss Horrorfest webisodes.

I'm just happy for Tonantzin Carmelo
I saw the movie once and it was decent. What made me happy was that the ever attractive Tonantzin Carmelo( Thunder Heart Woman from Into the West) did not die in this movie. I can't wait to get her next film Imprint. I hope she doesn't any roles where she dies, she is just too darn beautiful!!