Adam Taylor The "found film" movies can be very hit or miss. Some are well done and suspenseful, others are just boring shaky-cam snoozes. This movie is a lesson in how it should be done.There is a wonderful mix of found footage and interviews which make it really come across as quality work. The monster gets very little screen time, but what it does get is well timed and wonderfully placed to add the proper amount of terror. The setting itself is creepy as hell. Even knowing it's just a movie, I would never want to find myself in those tunnels.A must watch for horror fans.

shawnblackman A found footage horror mixed with interviews dealing with what was in the tunnels. An Australian film crew hits the tunnels looking for any sign of homeless people and reasons why the water program was abandoned. The deeper they get the more horrors they face.This was the film that they crowdfunded by selling the 135 000 frames that made up the film for one dollar each. This was also the first film they made just to be put on bitTorrent sites for free. They ended up selling 35 000 frames but had a good amount of orders in for DVDs to make a go of it.The film wasn't too bad with a few genuine scares, but after 45 minutes it seems too long. I liked the effect of the camera lens breaking near the end forcing us to watch the final frames through a cracked lens. A majority of the film is in the dark which makes for not knowing what the hell is going on.

bowmanblue Whether you enjoyed the Blair Witch Project or not, it set a president in these 'found footage' horror films. Over recent years they've been cropping up in every country, showing us the tale of people who - for some reason - feel the need to feel the entire of their supernatural encounter, right up until the point of their demise.This is Australia's entry into the genre.It starts off slow. You can basically skip the entire first half hour - it's all backstory and character-building. Some may like a slow start, others won't, but, either way, you'll still be able to understand the film if you do.It's about four members of a news crew who go below Sydney into the abandoned underground system to get a story. Naturally, they get more than they bargained for. Unfortunately, what follows is simply the same as you'll see in any other 'found footage' film. You have people running around screaming, talking into camera, shaky camera-work, only brief flashes of whatever is hunting them, the obligatory night-vision shots, getting lost and bickering with each other and so on.Yes, it's well acted and nicely presented, but, perhaps the most disappointing aspect of the film were the 'interviews.' Whereas in other 'found footage' films they go the other way and have a piece of text at the beginning telling (spoiling?) the viewer by saying this footage was all that was found, i.e. everyone in the film is dead or missing. The Tunnel Movie interviews the survivors all the way through the film, cutting their thoughts on what they've filmed. For me this kind of told me who survives and who doesn't. I felt the interviews should have been taken out all together. At least that way the viewer wouldn't know who lives and who dies until the end.The Tunnel Movie is okay. There's nothing bad I can really say about it, but then there's nothing that I haven't seen before. If it was released before Blair Witch, it would have been the benchmark with which all others are measured against. Sadly, it's nearly fifteen years too late for that title, therefore it gets lost in the multitude of 'Blair Witch clones.' Not bad, but nothing new.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

Commander Data Wow, I don't know why I put myself through the pain of watching this all of the way through. Maybe it's because I was also playing Poker on-line and was able to look away from the movie some of the time. So much footage using a night-vision hand-held (and very shaky) camera, watching blurry walls and blurry bits of light completely ruined what may have been a 3 or 4 (out of 10) movie. I know it was made on a shoe-string budget - even less, but so much time spent using hand-held night camera when there was a real one right next to it really made it a 1 (awful). A few moments using that camera would have been fine - putting others in the setting. I like thrillers, and the idea here that started in the beginning seemed to be OK at first. But it quickly fell into the abyss and they spent too much time using documentary style (which would have been OK to begin, and end the movie with) and not enough acting & quality dialog.