Death tunnel

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Movie
German title Death tunnel
Original title Death tunnel
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Philip Adrian Booth
script Christopher Saint Booth ,
Philip Adrian Booth,
Shane Dax Taylor
production Christopher Saint Booth,
Shane Dax Taylor
music Christopher Saint Booth
camera Philip Adrian Booth,
Marcel Cabrera ,
Robert Correa
cut Philip Adrian Booth
occupation

Death Tunnel is a 2005 horror film .

action

Five female students have to pass a special test of courage to be accepted into a popular marriage. The motto is Truth or Scare and the rules are simple. The exam takes place at Vanguard Sanatorium , which is considered to be one of the scariest places in the world. Each girl is abandoned on a different floor and they have to endure five hours a night. In the tuberculosis ward of the former hospital, more than 63,000 people are said to have died of the white plague since 1910.

After breaking free of their masks, the frightened young women who hear commentary over the public address system first explore their surroundings, which are made up of dilapidated furnishings, disgusting objects and shocking photos. They try to find their teammates in order to fight the fear together, but instead are confronted with the ghosts of the dead. The situation turns dramatic when Heather finds the first dead.

Elizabeth is covered in ice in the hallway and is frozen to death. A short time later, Ashley arms herself with a shard of glass to kill her enemies, and accidentally catches Devon, who dies from the injuries. Richie, who has meanwhile rushed into the building from his surveillance screens, meets Ashley with Heather. Ashley suspects Heather, who found a chain with the initials RJV on the corpses, to have murdered the other two girls. But Richie admits that his grandfather Richard James Vanguard was the head of this sanatorium at the time. When Ashley tries to run away angrily, she runs into a power cable and dies too.

In the archive, Heather and Richie track down the history of the sanatorium. Since hardly a patient could be cured at the time, the dead were secretly disposed of through a 150-meter-long tunnel to give a positive impression. Research funds were also misused. Richie says the test of courage was Ashley's idea of ​​whose family owned the sanatorium. Several station nurses died from murder and electrocution; a little girl froze to death. When Heather and Richie read that another sister took her own life by jumping off the roof, they panic about Tori, but they are too late.

After an involuntary stay in the morgue, Heather and Richie flee through the death tunnel. Heather realizes that the initials of the five students form the word DEATH (death). At the end of the tunnel she reveals the truth to Richie: "I died here."

Reviews

According to a review by cnet.de, “the touch of nothing that the attractive but moderately talented actresses wear is often more transparent than the story. But the focus is anyway on the creepy ghosts and the special effects . The horror comes in quick, video clip- like cuts. So surprising that the audience often doesn't have time to cover their eyes. "

Elaine Lamkin, who claims to have visited the sanatorium herself, praises the implied horror on bloody-disgusting.com, which is more important than bloody effects: “We do see the aftereffects but for those looking for hardcore blood and guts, you won ' t find it here. It's more the sense of foreboding and menace and "what's around the corner?" in this movie that makes it so creepy. "The low budget is offset by the gruesome location of the action:" I thought this was quite a well-done film for having such a low budget (reportedly around $ 1 million) but then again, you just can't beat a film set in a haunted, abandoned asylum. "

background

The former Waverly Hills Sanatorium served as the backdrop for the Vanguard Sanatorium . Erected in 1910 in Louisville , Kentucky , the building served as a special facility for treating tuberculosis patients. Jefferson County had one of the highest tuberculosis rates in the country at the time, which resulted in a gradual expansion of the sanatorium. Because it was feared that the sight of hearses could have a bad effect on the morale of the patients, deceased patients were transported away through a steam tunnel. In 1961 the sanatorium was closed due to the now low number of patients and reopened as a private clinic a year later. In 1981 the state closed the facility for good due to poor patient treatment and has been empty since then. The producers of Death Tunnel dedicate the film to the deceased patients of the sanatorium (in the credits: "Dedicated to all the Lost Souls of Waverly Hill Sanatorium. May You All Find Your Way Home!")

The building is now considered a haunted house and serves as a kind of pilgrimage site for followers of paranormal activities and occult rituals. Scary stories about the tunnel or room 502 on the fifth floor, in which several suicides are said to have taken place, have already been the subject of some US TV programs.

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