I’ve seen episodes of She’s the Sheriff that had more thought invested in them.
Video:
The widescreen presentation, featuring a 2.35:1 aspect ratio, does a wonderful job displaying the film´s best asset--its wonderful shooting locations. "Unearthed" is an attractive film, but its beauty is only skin deep, and it has a core filled with festering racial stereotypes and lame creature effects.
Audio:
The Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track sounds fine, but it can´t touch the powerful visuals.
Extras:
Just like the other eight films in the After Dark Horrorfest released to DVD, "Unearthed" has the stupid "Miss Horrorfest webisodes." It´s a special feature that´s so special the exact same nineteen minutes are included on all eight discs.
Film Value:
"Unearthed" is a film overflowing with missed opportunities. If Leutwyler had spent a little more time and effort fleshing out his script and finding an effects team capable of creating a more original monster, then it would have been a far better film. Instead, we get shady, loudmouthed African-Americans; small-minded, distrustful white townsfolk; and mystical Native Americans all running around attempting to out-stereotype each other. I saw this film in the theater over a year ago, at a film festival that ran it before it was announced as part of the After Dark Horrorfest lineup. I happily slept through half of that screening, but I did my damndest to stay awake through this viewing. It was a better film the first time around.
For a more entertaining flick featuring irrational, small-minded white people fighting a poorly designed alien, check out 2006´s "Altered." Here, there´s a group of hicks that were tortured and experimented upon by aliens as kids, who capture one of the bastards on a return visit. Directed by "The Blair Witch Project" co-creator Eduardo Sanchez, "Altered" is a thrilling, atmosphere-driven creep-fest that takes a slight nosedive once the alien-costumed midget is fully shown. But even after that less-than-stellar revelation occurs, it´s still twice the film "Unearthed" fails to be.
The widescreen presentation, featuring a 2.35:1 aspect ratio, does a wonderful job displaying the film´s best asset--its wonderful shooting locations. "Unearthed" is an attractive film, but its beauty is only skin deep, and it has a core filled with festering racial stereotypes and lame creature effects.
Audio:
The Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track sounds fine, but it can´t touch the powerful visuals.
Extras:
Just like the other eight films in the After Dark Horrorfest released to DVD, "Unearthed" has the stupid "Miss Horrorfest webisodes." It´s a special feature that´s so special the exact same nineteen minutes are included on all eight discs.
Film Value:
"Unearthed" is a film overflowing with missed opportunities. If Leutwyler had spent a little more time and effort fleshing out his script and finding an effects team capable of creating a more original monster, then it would have been a far better film. Instead, we get shady, loudmouthed African-Americans; small-minded, distrustful white townsfolk; and mystical Native Americans all running around attempting to out-stereotype each other. I saw this film in the theater over a year ago, at a film festival that ran it before it was announced as part of the After Dark Horrorfest lineup. I happily slept through half of that screening, but I did my damndest to stay awake through this viewing. It was a better film the first time around.
For a more entertaining flick featuring irrational, small-minded white people fighting a poorly designed alien, check out 2006´s "Altered." Here, there´s a group of hicks that were tortured and experimented upon by aliens as kids, who capture one of the bastards on a return visit. Directed by "The Blair Witch Project" co-creator Eduardo Sanchez, "Altered" is a thrilling, atmosphere-driven creep-fest that takes a slight nosedive once the alien-costumed midget is fully shown. But even after that less-than-stellar revelation occurs, it´s still twice the film "Unearthed" fails to be.
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