Storage 24 [Blu-ray]

Worth the look!
This is probably *not* going to get the kind of release that plops it into the multiplex nearest your home; lucky you if it does! It's a forgone conclusion that it wasn't going to be playing here on many screens, for very long, and for some time yet; so we popped for it, having a good home theater.

The movie itself is earnest and very well done, almost as if the filmmakers watched SUPER 8 and said, "Well, that was fun....but let's do one and not muck around with the focus of the story or its tone". Then they got a small budget, a "bottle" location, a good DP (really helps in this sort of production)....and tried very, very hard to invoke the tone of early John Carpenter movies, even down to some of the scoring. Mostly they succeed. There's no reinventing the wheel here, and it doesn't have the bats*** crazy energy of ATTACK THE BLOCK; but it wasn't trying to be that film. Other than some third-act inconsistencies and dialogue-as-exposition, it is a very good movie that...

B-movie-style fun from Noel Clarke and company
(My review originally appeared on ReelFilmNews.com.)

What do you get when you cross Die Hard with Aliens and Shaun of the Dead? Storage 24, a new sci-fi/horror film from the mind of co-writer and star Noel Clarke, promises to be exactly that. Terse and to the point, Storage 24 is an unpretentious modern horror film that doesn't have to rely on pop culture references or jokey sight gags to get its message across. Instead, the film relies on claustrophobia and fear to provide a thick, heady atmosphere of nonstop tension.
Oh, and an enormous, toothsome alien, too.

As with other great low-budget horror films, Storage 24 manages to look like a movie with ten times its bankroll; the special effects are simple and realistic, relying on the cast to sell it, which they do very well. It's an easy premise: a menacing alien threatens the lives of several people trapped inside a storage facility. Of course, there's the requisite love gone bad between Charlie (Clarke) and...

Alien in a storage locker
This low budget British horror flick has been sitting in my DVR for a couple months now and I finally got around to checking it out. Filmed for all but a few seconds inside a 24 hour storage facility in the outskirts of London, the film borrows from many earlier ones and manages to create some suspense here and there.

Shocked by a loud explosion, later determined to be a plane crash near the facility, the electricity becomes erratic eventually locking a handful inside the storage building. When things start to go bump in the night, we start the countdown to grueling deaths, one by one. Evidently the plane that crashed was a military cargo plane carrying some top secret containers. Using their ingenuity and a few "weapons" they find inside the individual storage units, the little group must go to battle with an unknown enemy. Pretty corny and not terribly scary but not that bad either.

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