Despite all of the other reviews claiming otherwise, this is a great film full of excitement, shocks, and twists. A must watch for every horror lover! Editing - the overall impression I received is that this film was well edited, especially for a low budget film. The special effects were superb, and while, as other reviews have pointed out, there are a few flaws, such as the cloud incident, these can often be overlooked while you are caught up in the story. '5 girls sent to a dark scary place as a student prank' is often an overused device in film, but there are several starkly original elements of the film, which you will discover yourself.

Death Tunnel (2005) 1/2 (out of 4) Horrendously bad movie about five college girls who are put inside a haunted sanatorium where they must go through five floors of terror but things take a turn for the worse when they start being murdered off. If you're not familiar with any of the story then you might want to check out some of the TV shows and documentaries that have dealt with Waverly Hills Sanatorium. It's a true place that is considered to be one of the most frightening and haunted places out there but this film, shot entirely on location there, wouldn't tell you that. I've seen quite a few things on Waverly Hills and they've all been pretty creepy but that's certainly not the case with this very bad film. I'm really not sure where to start but I guess it's fair to say that the majority of the blame has to go towards director, writer, editor and cinematographer Philip Adrian Booth. I'm really not sure what exactly he was going for but the film comes off as a major rip of SAW, THE SHINING and THE RING. The added goodie is that they're shooting in a real haunted location but this never comes across for a number of reasons. What I hated most about this movie was that it's simply very annoying. We're given all sorts of suicide worthy sound effects that are just so annoying that you'll be wanting to hit the stop button right there. Just as worse is the type of editing, which results in a lot of fast cuts that try to "shock" when when scenes cut to violence, death or gore but it just comes across very silly. I'm really not sure what the director was wanted by the Waverly Hills place has all sorts of atmosphere but all of it is missing here, which is something I thought could never happen. The performances are all bland, the story full of non-sense and in the end this is just a really bad film.

Death Tunnel is set in Kentucky where the notorious Vangard Sanatorium has been closed for years, during the early part of the twentieth century tens of thousands of people died there from an incurable disease known as the 'White Plague' & the countless bodies were secretly taken from the sanatorium by a train through a tunnel under it which has since become known as the 'Death Tunnel'. High school medical student Heather Reed (Steffany Huckaby) is invited to the annual 'Truth or Scare' initiation party & decides to go, during the party five girls are chosen to spend the night in the old creepy supposedly haunted Vangard Sanatorium & Heather is one of them. While Richie (Jason Lasater) looks on using hidden cameras the five girls find themselves stuck in the rundown sanatorium but they are not alone as it becomes clear that there is a supernatural presence & past horrors come back to haunt the present...Edited, photographed, co-written & directed by Philip Adrian Booth this is yet another really bad low budget indie horror film that is a total bore from start to finish, makes no sense, is annoying to watch & has little or no entertainment value. The first thing I noticed about Death Tunnel that annoyed me was the broken narrative, for some strange reason Booth has decided to place sequences out of order so within the first twenty minutes there are dream sequences, flashbacks, flash-forwards, montages & a complete lack of linear structure which would be alright if he was building up to some twists but there aren't any. It just seemed to me Booth was jumbling up the logical order of the plot to try & be clever but it fails, badly. I mean as an example the first thing that actually happens in Death Tunnel is a blonde girl stabbing someone else to death with a shard of glass which then isn't referred to again until it actually happens again latter in the film at the point it should have, the flashbacks, dreams & flash-forwards just didn't make any narrative sense to me & it carries on throughout the rest of the film. There are numerous instances of people doing idiotic things, why doesn't Richie remember the fire escape at the end in order to get out? Why does Ashley suddenly decide to take a shower in a rundown, decrepit old mental hospital? Even though I get the idea that the initial of each of the girls names spells out Death (Devon, Elizabeth, Ashley, Tori & Heather) what does that have to do with anything? Why did that ghost paint their initials on their clothes? Was no-one else meant to check on them? Did Richie not have a mobile phone? Who set all the camera equipment up? Why was it so hard to just walk out of the bloody place? The character's are poor, the plot has momentum & features endless shots of dark corridors & people wandering around in order to stretch the running time out & the plot is near incomprehensible. At an hour & a half Death Tunnel is far too long & there are better films out there.Death Tunnel can't even provide any gore to liven things up, there are a few dead bodies & a little bit of blood splatter but all the kills are off screen & really tame. Death Tunnel looks like one long music video with the constant jumpy editing, shaky camera, the fact that no shot seems to last longer than five seconds & all the black and white montages, the lame attempts at ghostly patients & doctor's & a silly overdone soundtrack full of whizzing & flashbulb type effects to go with the machine-gun editing. Death Tunnel is a real irritant to watch & even think about. There's one scene of gratuitous nudity which is appreciated but hardly compensates for the rest of the film being pretty terrible.With a supposed budget of about a million bucks this was at least partly filmed at the real-life Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Kentucky. The film looks alright in terms of on set footage I suppose but the editing ruins it & it just becomes an eyesore. The acting is bad, simple as that.Death Tunnel is a bit of a painful experience to sit through, the constant pointless changes in narrative & time-line annoyed me & serve no purpose that I could see. The lack of gore, the lack of any coherent or logical story & a low body count don't help it.

I like this movie, it was good, I know people are scared of the plague, because I know there is no cure for it, it is a pretty scary disease, and this movie is actually great, it has great acting, great script, and a good ending too. I've seen some plague like The Sickhouse, The Reaping, and Locusus: the 8th plague. I know the girls in this movie thought it was game, but it turns to be a nightmare, because they didn't know the hospital was haunted, and that's what made the movie pretty scary. The person, the one that was wearing that mask, when he was rolling the stretcher on the floor, that person looked pretty scary, and I think this movie should not deserve a 2.7/10, I think it should deserve a 8.5/10, because this movie looks pretty creepy, its got a great plot to it, and that's why I give it a 10/10, but my real score for this movie is a 7.8/10, so that why I rounded up. well the reason why I give this movie a 7.8/10 is because the scenes that show the floor numbers, but the rest of the movie, good.