Unearthed
Tags: suspenseful, violence

Plot synopsis:
After a sinister crash on the highway in a small New Mexican town, people start disappearing and animals begin dying. The cause of the crash is later revealed to be a 900-year-old creature which was unearthed during an archaeological dig in the area.
Meanwhile, a gas station owner informs a group of people that the gas tank never arrived, which meant that the small group needed to spend the night at the gas station. Sheriff Annie is called to investigate the crash, and finds a strange piece of evidence.
Annie then takes it to the gas station, where Nodin investigates it. It is clearly not human, and has many elements of DNA in it. It is later explained the creature is an alien weapon, devised by an extremely ancient civilization to collect DNA like some kind of probe or exploration device created using bio-technology, however it tends to do so in a decidedly lethal manner.
At the bar, Carla finds male customers dead in the back lot. She runs back into the bar, and the creature then breaks in. It first injures her arm (and also causes her to shoot herself in the foot), and then it eventually butchers her.
Back at the gas station, Caya and Charlie are flirting inside the motel room. Ally goes outside to throw out some garbage, and encounters Grandpa, thinking Ally was a coyote rustling through the trash. Ally then returns to the motel, but before she can enter, the creature rips its claw into her torso.
Ally's dead body is thrown back into the room and onto the stove. Her dead body burns, causing a fire, and a gas leak. Annie, Nodin, and Grandpa go into the room where the creature is outside banging on the walls. Grandpa is then killed, and Nodin begins to panic.
Annie then knocks her unconscious and they go out to the truck, after the room explodes into flames.
After battling the monster countlessly, most of the group is killed. At the end, Annie confronts the monster, and believes she kills it by smashing it against a water tank with her car but the monster was only made unconscious for a while. Annie injects herself with the poison containing uranium (the only substance that makes the poison work against the monster) that was prepared by Nodin in order to kill the monster. The monster kills Annie and dies itself as soon as it comes in contact with the uranium in the poison. The remaining survivors, Caya and Nodin, place Annie's body in the back of their truck. They then drive off, leaving the monster in the dirt, where it is most likely going to become buried again.

Review: The problem is the early scenes where we don't see the creature are just confused and then once we do see the monster-which looks like a version of HR Giger's Alien with a smaller head, it just feels like we've been here before.
We soon learned why.Unearthed has a generic, by-the-numbers plot crammed full of the same old tired horror-movie clichés.
I'm the first to be critical of these types of -monsters on the loose in isolated community films-, but if you can get past the stunningly bad cgi monster there's a reasonable amount to like here.
There's a local biologist who keeps telling everyone she knows nothing but keeps coming up with the answers via massive jumps in her conclusions and it just gets stupid when she finds a Geiger counter lying around and then proclaims 'I've got a uranium extractor back at the house.' If you can ignore these things, and accept that this was done on a tight budget, this is an okay movie.I watched this back to back with 'Living Hell' and what confuses the hell out of me is that that piece of total garbage got the thumps up from the IMDb reviewers and an average score of 4.7 while this gets a total roasting from the reviewers and an average of 4.8.
It's a shame that this film is so terrible because the plot actually sounds like it could turn into something quite decent.
The farmers send for a Sheriff to deal with that, and a big truck accident that's blocking the road...but things take a turn for the unexpected when the Sheriff discovers that there's been an archaeological dig in the area, and that an Indian has accidentally released a giant CGI alien creature into the town.
I thought this movie would be the best film of the new Afterdark releases, however, upon watching it I am hoping that is not the case.
The one rancher is actually a good character, to bad he is not in the movie much and the monster is okay too, although it is just a cheap version of the alien and its origin is a bit far fetched..
However, Annie sooner discovers that an ancient alien creature sent to annihilate life on Earth hundreds of years ago was released by the Indian Kale (Luke Goss) during an archaeological excavation in the desert.
The Indian Caya (Beau Garrett) and a group of travelers stranded in the spot without gas together with Annie and Kale try to find a means to destroy the alien and save mankind.Watching "Unearthed" is a waste of time, since the forgettable story is nothing but a collection of clichés.
If I was a junior high A/V Teacher, and my students made this, I would expel them.I've seen porn movies with more interesting characters, more realistic plot lines, better dialogue and less groaners.
The film is confusing and pretty plot less and features some of the worst CGI I've ever seen it looks like the cgi beasties of the castlevania Nintendo game.
Alien monster terrorize people in an isolated American town.Sheriff Annie Flynn(Emananulle Vaugier)try to solve the case.Swedish DVD cover says a mix between Neil Marshalls Masterpiece The Descent&cult classic Alien.I say no,no,no...only thing they have common is some parts in the film is in a cave and the monster look reminds in a cheap way of the Alien one.I didn't like it for sure,it didn't give me anything.To be fair I first watched an hour some days ago and last half hour today.Acting is not the worst I seen,some pretty fine.Emanuelle Vaugier did her work good.The movie has no scary parts and the monster looks just silly.Last half hour was better than rest of the film,but I do not recommend it.By the way in Sweden its called Deep Fear.I give it 2/10..
The monster!The film actually started pretty good.
And in a sense it was, only it lost itself in senseless gore, inept "scientific" explanations and silly Indian legends solution.Bottom line: watch the first half, until the monster is going on the extended killing spree, stop the film, then think all day long about how it should continue.
a cartoon films on the SciFi Channel will appreciate an above board effort.Good gore and great action make Unearthed a worth watching.
I should have read these reviews ahead of time but I did not know about them, then.I tried to watch UNEARTHED and shut it off about 10 minutes from the end.
It seemed like a decent movie and good plot, from what I saw.Any movie that is filmed in the dark, even blockbusters like the last version of Godzilla, and cannot be watched on television should either not be put on DVD, or labeled with "Too dark to watch on television and still be enjoyed!" so that the buyer can decide where they want to spend their $20.
I swear to God, and all that is holy, there should be a lawsuit against the so called 8 films to die for franchise, as each one of these pieces of garbage I've seen has simply gotten worse, and worse.I watched Unearthed, and thought, wow, this looks familiar.
If you read other comments, then you probably don't need me to tell you this film wasn't up to standard, but one opinion I have of the film is that its pretty dead, as I am referring to the fact that it doesn't really have any interesting characters, and the nearly incoherent dialog sounds like its being mumbled half the time.The storyline is your basic monster is unearthed and starts to kill everything from cattle to people, and that's it, and of course there's a negative side, you can barely see what goes on in half the scenes (and you don't need me to tell you that either, several other comments also agree) Overall, what I've seen from Horrorfest 2007 so far (Boderland, Tooth & Nail, The deaths of Ian Stone, Nightmare Man, Unearthed) this film and Nightmare Man both seem like the worst films in the fest..
Gore wise, it's good, very nasty deaths, and some I found quite funny too.Overall, an okay film, not Oscar worthy, so don't treat it like it is, I enjoyed it more taking it as a low budget creature feature..
Picture the scene: it's do or die for the main protagonists, and of the four people watching in my living room, one is filing her nails; one is writing a text message; one is reading the label on a beer bottle and one (me) is really embarrassed about choosing this film.And I chose because the trailer looked really good.
What the trailer doesn't show is that the characters are stereotypes, the special effects are sub-par and the whole film is just so damn boring it is unbelievable.Now, I watch a lot of horror films, and a lot of them are bad, but I can usually see something good about them.
I cant understand someone who would like to contribute production for such a movie as Deep Fear.If you go for a copycat for another movie, please do it good.Decent was creepy, the creatures looked real, the cast was OK and the surroundings/effects was creepy.
Wants To Be More Than It Is. An unknown creature terrorizes an archaeological dig in the middle of a desolate New Mexico town.Some have compared this film to a SyFy movie, and that is probably about right.
Not only because the CGI is flawed (as it almost always is), but because the creature was so obviously inspired by "Alien" that it is hard to give them much credit for originality.There do seem to be some practical effects, and those are actually quite nice.
I thought that the first half of the movie was well pretty good, it held my interest very well,, but then something odd happened,the story drifted away and lost me,, i became bored and couldn't actually wait for the movie to end..
looks like something out of AVP , i don't know the characters seemed lame , even Annie the drunked little hottie of a sheriff , this movie, the way the characters are presernts it 's like you don't even wanna root for them or care about them for that matter,, the writing i thought was very weak,, and overall this one was not very scary at all,, in fact a total disappointment if you ask me..
He musta "went to school" on "Blair Witch." It is really hard to have empathy with the characters or to feel their fear in the (presumably) scary parts because the movie was **shot in the dark!** Oh, and the monster looks like an "Alien" knock-off (and not a very good one), but you can't really tell because it was "...".The writer/director Matthew Leutwyler should stick to writing.
Trapped in their small southwestern town, a troubled sheriff and a prospector find a deadly creature released from a local archaeological dig and must save the locals from the ravenous creature.There was a lot to like with this one as it was a great creature feature.
One of the better elements at work is the impressive amount of attention paid to the creature and it's mythology within the story, as not only is the actual mythology enjoyable but there's more throughout the film that carry this along.
The other real flaw is the film's last half where it's almost all filmed with glow-sticks that places a rather challenging light on these scenes during the best parts of the movie and make it nearly impossible to make out.
"Unearthed" fall into the latter category.The story is about some alien creature terrorizing a small desert community called Hat Creek.
And the characters were just randomly picked and thrown into the lot, without having any connection to anything.The creature in "Unearthed" was actually really nicely made, though it was so painstakingly a copy of the creature from the "Alien" movies.
The movie was carried by Emmanuelle Vaugier (playing sheriff Annie Flynn).One major problem with "Unearthed" was that it was just too dark.
It was like watching a horror movie from the late 70s."Unearthed" is a very uninteresting movie, though it did try its best to be something unique.
I actually caught myself dozing off several times during the movie because of the lack of lighting.So if you enjoy horror movies, like I do, stay well clear of "Unearthed", unless you are die-hard fan of Afterdark Horrorfest (and just got to see them all) or unless you are a big fan of any of the performing actors or actresses in this movie.
I will add a short review to this one: This is a really nice example about how no to make a horror movie.PLUS: acting is surprisingly better than I expected; PLUS: they tried to add some depth to the main character by showing flashbacks; PLUS: some scenes are actually pretty exciting for people who are not used to watching horror movies.
However, this is only in the beginning in the movie.PLUS: I liked watching the sexy actresses :P ; MINUS: all of the scenes end in an extremely predictable way; MINUS: all my favorite characters (as far as I had any) get killed; MINUS: it is very often not clear what is actually happening.
This is bad writing; MINUS: the camera crew was probably drunk while filming the action scenes; MINUS: the black guy carries a mysterious suitcase with him, but they never explain what is in it; MINUS: the tiny little flesh eating worms are never really explained.
The director/producers managed to spoil this movie quite well on their own.OK, a movie about an archaeological dig unearthing some ancient creature that starts killing people stranded in the area.
Characters are barely introduced at the beginning of the movie, and there is but a hint of character development for anyone but Sheriff Annie.As far as the filming goes, I've seen camera phone recordings of higher quality than was used in this movie.
However, most of the scenes of the creature are such pitiful CGI, they make made-for-Sci-Fi channel movie special effects look good.Had any effort been made to develop the characters, explain what was really going on with them early in the film, and some legitimate filming done instead of rough-shod disjointed quick cuts and camera angles, this COULD have been a decent film..
I usually don't post reviews but since there was no comment yet about the creature I had to make one.And well people who already watched the movie may learn something about the creature they didn't know.I found the movie a bit boring, it was dark all the time and the action scenes felt like a movie trailer, a flash of action here and there, a lot of it but always very fast and where it seems like you miss half the action.
Something just didn't "work" in this movie for me, I have nothing against simple stories or the characters or the acting or even the creature FXs but the movie in the end isn't that good sadly.!!!
The camera angles were very well done except for some parts where it was a bit too "Bourne Ultimatum," the acting was okay and the creature was a sight for sore eyes.This movie had a very Alien look and feel to it; in fact the creature looked a lot like the Xenomorphs from the Alien films intermixed with the creatures from Feast (2006).
The directors where heavily influenced by some of the more classic and modern horror films and they did a great job applying those aspects to this movie.
Sure there are some pretty cheesy parts (The sheriff is hot young babe, the girls seem to be more brave than the guys, it's all hot girls and only the more innocent beautiful girl survives), but other that that, this movie was pretty good.I would recommend this movie to any horror fan that loves creature features, horror-action, and Neil Marshall or Ridley Scott films.
We have an archaeological dig with an ancient alien creature buried inside.this creature looks a lot like the xenomorph from the movie Alien!
Also sometimes it is not easy to see what is going on in the movie, it is too dark and it moves too fast not in a scary good sense..
The violence and gore where Horn, some town people, a few strangers stuck at the gas station, and some cows are killed by the aliens and consumed from the inside out, is typical of low budget horror films.
An alien creature, dormant under a type of suspended animation thanks to a poison used on it 900 years ago by a tribe the thing was wiping out, is unearthed by a crackpot would-be archaeologist unleashing it on a desert town.Sheriff Annie(Emmanuelle Vaugier, who I actually thought was a rather good heroine)is struggling with alcoholism due to an accidental shooting of a child during a botched arrest.
Kale(Luke Goss), who looks like a soldier-of-fortune with a long tattoo down his face, is the archaeologist working for the Native American who discovers in a cavern why his people were practically wiped out, with the business of starvation being merely a created falsehood.Film is essentially ALIEN in New Mexico.
Unearthed was one of the few After Dark films from this year's fest I was really looking forward to.
The plot follows a band of characters trapped in a small town where a creature who was responsible for wiping out an Indian tribe a hundred years ago has been...unearthed.
I really liked the fact that the filmmakers opted not to show to much of the creature in the first part of the film.
It is clear that the screenwriter saw Aliens and Tremors too many times and likes movies like Night of the Living Dead, Identity and Reeker in which random groups of people come together to meet their doom.
fun if not great films.This movie is not even up to the level of a BAD made for Sci-Fi channel movie, and makes less sense.
Then the small town comes under attack from a mutant alien creature that has been dug up by Kale (Luke Goss) after being in suspended animation for thousands of years, the alien is now awake & looking for food as it viciously kills anyone it comes across...Also known as Alien Rising & Deep Fear this was written & directed by Matthew Leutyler & was one of the '8 Films to Die For' shown at the 2007 Afterdark Horrorfest & to be fair I don't think Unearthed was nearly as bad as some of the IMDb comments would suggest, as far as routine Alien (1979) rip-offs go I'd say Unearthed was alright & even had a few positive aspects.
While certainly not the deepest or most original alien on the loose film Unearthed is perfectly watchable to an extent.Again, while the other IMDb user comments may suggest the special effects are awful they really aren't that bad at all.
If you've ever seen any of the awful CGI effects work from any Sy-Fy Channel film or (shudder) The Asylum then you will think the ones in Unearthed are brilliant by comparison.
If your looking for an Alien rip-off with blood & gore then look no further.Filmed in Salt Lake City in Utah the production values are very good, Unearthed is generally well made but it does get far too dark towards the end.
So dark in fact it's sometimes impossible to tell what's going on which is a shame, there's a little too much shaky camera work & quick fire editing as well at times.
It moves along at a nice pace & at least tries to be scary & suspenseful even if it can't quite pull it off, by no means the worst horror film out there but at the same time nothing new or particularly special..
It sounded more like a Sci-Fi Original's plot than it did a theatrically released horror film.