The Tombs

There seems to have been a spate of " Scare attraction goes wrong " movies recently and certainly this is one of the better ones.

Really nicely shot and generally well acted ( some wooden actors as well )

I didn't feel any real tension though and I didn't really care about any of the actors , they were all pretty vile characters of varying degrees.

It's a take it or leave it movie that you'll quickly forget.

The Tombs has the honor to be the thirtieth movie in my list of movies with the lowest score possible. It's rare that I rate a movie the lowest possible but in this case I had no choice. The Tombs is an absolute disaster, from the beginning till the end. There is absolutely nothing good about this movie. The script is unbelievably bad, a five year old couldn't make it up. The acting is from another level, the kind of level where you seriously hope for those people they didn't give up their regular job. As for the horror it's simple, there is no horror. You will have more scary moments in the haunted house at the local fair. The killer moves like a defected robot, so that one you could just outrun by hopping on one leg. Who the hell did give that guy money to make a movie? What a waste of time (mine) and money (theirs).

The Tombs (2019) follows a group of 'celebrities' that go film a publicity stunt in a haunt in the London tombs, but not everything happens to be faked. Everything in this movie just felt so unnatural and weird and I don't like saying bad things about indie movies, but there really wasn't any appeal in this film. I just really disliked this movie, there wasn't anything going for it, and the acting was too poor to look past.

The film uses some found footage type aspects throughout. The TV footage actually looked quite realistic, and was the best thing about the movie. However, the CCTV footage looked terrible and almost like an Instagram filter!

The acting was unfortunately dreadful, and there were no good performances. They had some British actors do an American accent, which made no sense due to the film being SET in the UK. Alongside this, the accents were very bad and didn't help the film. Also, the dialogue was cringeworthy and poorly written and the characters were all unlikeable.

The music and score weren't good at all, and just sounded like royalty free audio. The music also got cheesier as the film progressed. This wasn't helped by the sound design and audio techniques which were just incredibly bland and low effort.

The colour palettes were alright I guess, and the cinematography was basic. There was nothing necessarily bad to say, and nothing good to say about it either. I could see what was going on, but I feel like that's just the bare minimum.

Lastly, the pacing was messy and the film doesn't set any kind of tone or build up any atmosphere. There was no clear pacing and I was just waiting for it to end! It started off with a cheesy opening, and just got incredibly comically bad and funny in an unintentional way. The ending was equally as silly and very cliché.

-1 Star For the Scene with the Obnoxious Blonde... truly not enough show for my dough

-1 Star For If You are going to make a horror slasher movie you need to add a lot more horror and at least SOME SLASHING......

-1 Star For the killings , non-killings, bad dialogue, ridiculously timed flirty jokes, and campy attempts at humor at or near the end

And the end, was pretty bad. This is one worth the effort to skip!!!!

....which was worse,dialog or acting both were abysmal but as far as horror movies go this one hits near rock bottom on my list and I have watched literally thousands of horror movies over the years,besides the camera work which was average at best there was just no connection between characters and nothing likeable about any of them ,which kind of left you sitting there bored waiting for them to meet their demise and breathing a sigh of relief when they do,I couldn't even be bothered rustling up a cheer until this one reached it's sad,tired and oh so pathetic end.