Dark, ominous, gory, and vicious...a very hard to watch ghost story. Fear not...though there is much to fear in this film...you will watch. Why? Lingerie clad coeds in much peril! Okay, initially we have a confusing mess with gratuitous exploitation and gore. Then...this twisted and haunting plot takes form and we have a ghost story with a moral message. Did I mention the lingerie clad coeds in much peril? Today we look at 2005's "Death Tunnel," directed by Philip Adrian Booth.
Hey! Don't knock it. I, for one, see this as a good idea. At a nightclub, a two-timing hunk, Richie (Jason Lasater) is throwing an initiation contest for sorority babes. The babes must come dressed in lingerie and compete against each other. Empowered coeds? Right...skanks! Okay, Richie is doing the pre-marital sex thing with two of the contestants, Ashley (Kristin Novak) and Heather (Steffany Huckaby). Also along is the mysterious Tori (Annie B. Compton), Devon (Melanie Lewis) and Elizabeth (Yolanda Pecoraro). Figure it out yet? LOL...you'll see. The five coeds in lingerie and high heals sneer at one another and prance across the stage. Eek! They black out and wake in an abandoned and spooky sanitorium where plague patients were sent to die back in the 1920s...60,000 of them!
Now our beauties wake with sacks covering their heads. A macabre voice barks instructions to them. They get the masks off and begin exploring the dilapidated and haunted facility. Ghosts of nurses and dying girls plague them. Now, one by one, the ghost attacks gets dangerous. Hints emerge that the five coeds may have some twisted connection to what went on in this death house almost a century ago. Not every gorgeous babe will remain gorgeous, sadly. Now Richie, who is hosting this, realizes the gals are in mortal danger and seeks to save the ones he has had pre-marital sex with. One may question the wisdom of his motivation. Either way, the ghosts are ominous and the gals seem ill-fated.
Without humor and twisted, this film is dark and atmospheric. Will Richie be able to have pre-marital sex with Devon, Elizabeth, and Tori now that Ashley and Heather are furious at him? Just what is the connection between these five babes and the sanitorium's lurid history? Will any of the babes remain beautiful as the end credits roll? For a ghost story with gore, and cheese, see "Death Tunnel."
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