Storage 24

Plot synopsis:
A military aircraft crashes into central London, releasing its highly classified contents. Following the crash, a malfunction at the Storage 24 facility causes the security shutters to lock, trapping several people inside: Charlie, his best friend Mark, Charlie's ex-girlfriend Shelley, her best friend Nikki, Nikki's boyfriend Chris, the building receptionist, Jake and a maintenance engineer, Bob. Charlie arrives at the facility with Mark shortly after the incident. However, since the facility’s power is intermittently failing and everyone else is forced back together when they realise they cannot leave the building.
Meanwhile, Bob (the electrician) and Jake (the receptionist) are attempting to unlock the shutters by checking the electrical distribution boards in the basement. Bob is attacked and mysteriously killed. Jake flees and hides in an open storage room. Chris chances on him and witnesses him being killed by an alien creature.
Looking around, Charlie, Mark, Shelley and Nikki come across Chris huddled in the room, in shock, with blood dripping onto his face from above. From this, they locate Jake’s shredded remains above the ceiling panels. As Nikki runs from the room, a middle-aged man grabs her, threatening her with an electric toothbrush. They stun him and tie him up, believing he is the murderer. When he comes to, they learn he is merely an eccentric resident of a nearby storage unit, hiding from his wife. When Chris recovers they learn that a deadly creature of some kind is on the loose, and they are not safe.
Together, they hide themselves in one of the storage rooms as the creature lurks outside. However, Chris runs; the creature catches him and rips out his heart. Then the group decides to stay in the unit rented by the man, David, because it is lockable from the inside. David helps them to piece together what must have happened, by showing them the news channels on a collection of televisions he has acquired. Their only hope is to escape from the facility, and to do that they will need the engineer’s equipment in the basement. Before they venture there, they decide to use the ventilation ducts in order to search other units for weapons.
Mark and Charlie search several units, but find only a knife, a crowbar, and some fireworks. As they return, the creature breaks through the duct inches from Charlie and Mark abandons him. Mark returns to the group and distributes the weapons, telling them that Charlie is dead.
Charlie has somehow escaped the creature, and stumbles into the group; there is a slightly awkward reunion. Heading for the basement, they are confronted by the creature, and David sacrifices himself to give the others time to escape. They split into pairs to search the basement. Charlie and Nikki find the electronic keypad controlling the shutters near Bob's mutilated body. When they return, Mark is alone. He tells them Shelley has been taken by the creature and they must leave immediately. Charlie insists on a rescue attempt and doubles back with Nikki.
In a corridor nearby, Shelley is held captive by the creature. As it prepares to kill her, she stabs it with the knife and runs, but is cornered in a lift. Charlie and Nikki send a walking toy dog rigged with lit fireworks down the hallway. The fireworks explode, allowing Shelley to escape to Charlie.
Believing the creature dead, they run to Reception only to find Mark has barred its door with the crowbar. They plead with him; he stares distractedly, leaving them trapped. Charlie kicks the door open, and tries to open the shutters with the keypad. Just then the creature breaks through the wall behind Mark, and kills him. With Nikki’s aid, Charlie kills the creature by thrusting the crowbar through its abdomen.
Charlie finally releases the security shutters, and the trio emerge into the street. Shelley apologises and Charlie accepts the break-up. They go their separate ways. London is ablaze, under heavy attack from alien spaceships. The film ends abruptly.

Tags: violence

Review:
But that said, you have to have some standards and a point when you stand up and say it's just not good enough to blame costs and accept poorness because of a willingness to be indie cool.Storage 24 is a bad film, yes there is a good portion of gore for those inclined, the creature design is decent and the inner conflict in the group (boy/girl romantic triangle trouble wouldn't you know) at least keeps character interest from sinking to the depths of us not caring right away.
Acting is poor, except maybe Ned Dennehy, who is playing a bonkers hermit smelly bloke and enjoys himself, and Noel Clarke as the hero in waiting dude scurrying around trying to save the day.Clarke also produces, while Johannes Roberts directs, Clarke (Adulthood/Kidulthood) is much better than this, as is Roberts (F), but the pair are just saying we have watched Super 8 and Alien and feel like turning one out ourselves.
It's the inconsistencies that coupled with the standard formula make Storage 24 a weak film that's difficult to recommend to anyone but the type of horror fan that keeps watching all those Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday 13th sequels...and loving them.
what are you REALLY expecting here people...?This is clearly a very low budget, Retro Horror film that for what they had to work with and the simple setting, I truly felt that they did a great job with it!
Sure, none of these guys are gonna win any awards (well, except the two women, who are likely gonna tie for 1st place for the Most GAWDawful, BUTT Ugliest Mouth Oscar) Seriously though, no big deal, but considering the PAINFULLY bloody Horrible (in the wrong way) acting we usually see in low budget Horror movies like this one with TRULY awful, clichéd characters who we cannot wait to see die, these guys did just fine.The story is really only limited by the simplicity of the narrow setup, but I really feel that the director still got a HELL of a lot out of it.So, if you like simple but effective Monster Horror, you should enjoy this one just fine.
After a plane crash in central London, a group in a storage containment facility find themselves trapped inside with the vicious alien creature released during the crash and must try to fight if off in order to get out alive.This turned out to be a rather decent enough creature feature.
One of the more enduring elements to this one is the fact that there's a refreshing simplicity to how it plays out, as the film's basically a one-note plot that really goes on through the notes quite efficiently and effectively to where it becomes routine more than anything about what goes on It consistently turns into confrontation, escape, confrontation, escape which is plenty of fun due to the tight, cramped location to work with the rather convoluted layout of the area and the continuous encounters where the creature chases them through heating ducts, storage units and throughout the building itself that the scenes make for a rather creepy and exciting set of action.
The fact that the alien creature here is quite imposing is where it really helps score a little extra as well because the otherworldly appearance, as the spiked mouth, tentacled fingers and humanoid body create a powerful enough figure without seeing too much of it to lessen it's visual appeal as the creature really helps generate a lot of good marks during the film as the repetitive, action-packed nature of the film results in a creepy monster stalking and attacking people trapped in a creepy location, only to escape and run into it later on so there's a sense of familiarity to this as it goes on which can lower this somewhat.
As well, the film's blatant disregard for information-revealing is a bit of a problem as it tends to keep so many ideas and plot-points completely unknown to the viewer about the alien creature, what happened to it and the fates of several characters, and about the only plot-point to this that doesn't work is the long build-up here that results in some painful amount of time not going anywhere due to the aggravation of the animosity towards each other.
Storage 24 tries so hard to be Alien for this generation, but sadly fails on pretty much every level except this film does have a pretty cool monster.This may fail in trying to be alien, but i would not say this is a terrible movie.
There are a couple good things along the way including an interesting looking monster but sadly the film is just way too boring to make it worth sitting through.
People are coming to see a monster movie so I'm really not sure why they spent so much time on a boring subplot and especially since you have a great looking monster.
I'm a great fan of sci fi movies, most of the ones released recently are either budget movies with horrible scripts, or actors or animation/cgi or a combination of any of the three.For Storage 24 the acting was great ( what did you expect when it had Noel Clark?
the plot was good but not as nicely executed as I wish it would have been.Jeremy Clarke from The Guardian said "Johannes Roberts' warehouse-set monster flick is unexpectedly entertaining" and Kim Newman from Empire called it "a superior British horror sci-fi." I suppose that means I missed something.
The plot: A few people get trapped in a warehouse after a military plane goes down.Storage 24 is a low budget, generic Alien clone.
I have to wonder if they realized they were making a bad movie, then decided to just add a bunch of silly scenes, like actors feeling up mannequins and playing with toys.
STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday MorningAn alien spaceship crash lands in London, during which best mates Charlie (Noel Clarke) and Mark (Colin O' Donoghue) find themselves trapped in the titular holding bay.
Meanwhile, the group find themselves being stalked by something that was on the crash landed plane, a military experiment gone terribly wrong.It would have been nice for the British Film Industry to have a decent sci-fi/horror flick of it's own on it's hands, especially with a hot, still relatively new talent like Clarke in the lead, so in that respect Storage 24 is certainly ambitious in it's scope.
I watched this a couple years ago, and I was fairly disappointed then.I thought the reason I didn't like it could've been a bit because the story was so simple "a group of people trapped in a storage room with a blood-thirsty alien/monster" and that was really all it was.So I decided to give it another chance expecting to like it a little more now since I knew what I was going in for this time around, but no, it was even worse the second-time around, borderline unwatchable and I really struggled not to hit the fast-forward button but somehow I managed not to.And it's definitely not an experience I want to have for a third going so this shall be 'fingers crossed' the second and last time I watch it.The only semi-saving grace about the movie is Noel Clarke, but not even he can kick life in a dead horse so to speak.The monster is not particularly scary-looking either...
Noel Clark wrote and stars in this movie about a group of people stuck in a storage facility with an alien type creature.
There's nothing to set up the premise except that Storage 224 is somewhere on the outskirts, and a plane has crashed in the city cutting off power.Cue the ominous music.Once we get all the characters introduced and the dialogue out of the way, what action there is starts and it consists mostly of crawling through ducts into various units.
It's well acted after the required introduction of the characters is done, and there are some familiar faces...Noel Clarke, who stars and produced, was in some Dr. Who seasons, Colin O'Donoghue has played "Captain Hook" on Once Upon a Time for several seasons.This is an enjoyable film which won't give you nightmares but might evoke a few discussions about some of the characters and scenes.
The plot here is lame and unoriginal, the monster/alien is largely an actual practical effect, not a badly formed CGI creature, but it's on screen far too little, as way too much of the focus is on the dull characters and their TV soap likened side-plot.
The storage unit gives it a claustrophobic atmosphere and reminiscent of films like Alien where you know that the group are being watched, stalked and will slowly die one by one.
A low budget British monster movie written by and starring Noel Clarke, STORAGE 24 suffers from a distinct lack of originality in the screenplay.
The opening of the film is a mere riff on SUPER 8 (except with the cargo being transported by plane rather than train) while the rest of it copies both ALIEN and ALIENS to various effect, as a group are stalked and murdered by a hideous creature within a storage facility.This B-movie was shot by Johannes Roberts, who previously made the marginally more entertaining ROADKILL.
He brings that film's Ned Dennehy with him, with the actor once again playing a weirdo who happens to be the movie's most interesting character.
Noel Clarke brings a certain charisma to his part here, but his script is definitely sub-standard and seems to have been scribbled out in a hurry.STORAGE 24 does have stuff going for it here and there; the design of the creature seems to have been inspired by Cronenberg's THE FLY and looks pretty cool, and the gore effects are adequate.
Nothing about any of the characters make you feel like you are rooting for them at all and some of the movie you hope something happens or that film is about to end.
i have seen lot of crap movies, like one of the other reviews, its crappier version of skyfall, from beginning to end its just boooooring, stupid and crap.its one of the worst movie I've ever watched acting is poor digital effect, what effect, just a little special effect: uglies and cheapest alien I've ever seen in a film location is boring the film goes with unnecessary conversations, as it feels like directer just trying to fill the film, could have been better if it was short film the ending is even more stupid, its a disaster i prefer watching my laptops wallpaper than watching this film when you watch this film you'll think sky fall was a great film, what can i say more its the worst of the worst of the worst.
The story goes like this, these people go into Storage 24 to check on their stuff, but then all of sudden a plane crash happens, and they're wondering what's going on, when all of sudden some kind of alien creature starts attacking these people in Storage 24, and by the way in this movie, there is a building called "Storage 24," well that sounds stupid, but overall this movie is a little cliché, and most of it is really entertaining to watch, so if you want to watch a fun creature film, this is the film for you..
It is Mildly Entertaining but Lacks Anything New. The Monster is a Respectable Reptilian Alien Clone with Razor Claws for the Obligatory Slasher/Gore Scenes and a Face/Jaw that Defies Description, Suffice to Say it is a Mish Mash of Polywash.The Acting is Acceptable and the Writing Less So. The Film Seems Tired, or Worn Out, or Maybe it Knows that it is Retreading Retreads and its going to Fall Apart at Any Minute.
Though no real government agent or military personnel are ever really anywhere -- it is clear that precious (dangerous) cargo was on the plane, and is now loose in London; at a storage facility, Storage 24 to be exact.Aside from an alien creature that begins to crush and eat people immediately, there is one other story line.
While the actual effects used to create the creature escaped from the crashed plane are pretty good -- the rest of the movie -- when all of the "action" starts .
One-man British film industry Noel Clarke comes up with the idea, produces and stars in a low budget horror suspense offering which ends up looking as if it cost more than it actually did.
Take the escaped ALF (Alien Life Form) from military custody ploy, a la Super 8, toss in a Saw-esque maze of a storage facility, add the usual trapped victims, the hero, the coward, etc., and add a creature that looks like a cross between the xenomorphs from the Alien movies, and the insectoid aliens from District 9, and there you have it.
I realize that there isn't a whole lot of wiggle room left in this genre, as pretty much every scenario that one might come up with has been used a few dozen times over, albeit in different ways, but Storage 24 doesn't even try to add any new elements or takes on any of those themes or plot devices.
A plane crashes in London, and the cargo ends up in a storage warehouse, and it just happens that Noel Clarke has just split up from his girlfriend, who is sorting out her stuff from his stuff, and then there is the confrontation between them at the titular place.While all the while there is an alien stalking the corridors, killing all the Brit bit part actors you recognise from other films.
Basically he's not playing the same character like he usually does, ala Kidulthood.It's clear from the upstart who will survive and who will die, and when the little twist arrives at the beginning of the third act, some characters should just sign a death warrant.You have the best friend who stabs you I the back, and then thinks about saving his own bacon, the obnoxious friend who is just rude, the random nutter who lives in the warehouse, and of course, the nobody who works there.All fodder for the alien, but the character arcs really take the tension away from the film.But like I've said, its a fun little low budget British movie, that never outstays its welcome, and looks good..
The story of the movie is rather simple and had some plot holes, the end was really refreshing and the CGI/Monster Make-up people did a good job.
I think keeping in mind the budget and that it is a B Grade movie is important.I actually really enjoyed most of the characters, they were acted well, and written well enough, although the direction could have had a little more involvement in making them more like- able/hate-able, and interesting dialog was VERY limited.
I know thats totally cliché, but I felt like it would have given some brute force to the movie; someone who would have had the balls to face it and attempt to fight.The special effects, both practical and CGI, were done very well, and the creature itself was great, at no point did they have to flash it past or hide it in the dark to mask crappy effects.They needed more scenes like when the creature puts its finger through the air circulation vents, it reminded me more of Alien, i know I shouldn't compare the two, but that scene had a little more suspense than the rest of the movie, it's scenes like that that make you think about what you would do in that situation.I suppose people who work on films like these have great imaginations, but unfortunately the end result is quite often terrible because they cannot execute their good intentions.
The guy that played the old dude living there to escape his wife had some great presence and was probably my favourite character, so I wish he had been given a chance to put up a bit more of a fight, he deserved to kick some alien butt.Overall, not a terrible movie at all, and the ending wrapped things up well enough.RATED: 7/10 - this is rated against the genre and the pool of similar style and budget films, not against higher class films like Alien or The Godfather :) What it did for me was worth the 7Cheers!.
This movie is basically about an Alien that landed on their planet and this group of people get trapped in this big building and they can't find a way out and for most of the film they are just wandering around the building talking and we find out the Alien is in the building with them and he starts to kill of each of the characters one by one.
and that's probably what made the movie seem so dull and boring,the fact that they are in one location.the people get trapped in the storage unit and the creature looks for them and the characters are hiding in all these rooms for most of the film and the creature is trying to knock all the doors down to get inside to them.
The film stars Noel Clark, Colin O'Donoghue, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Laura Haddock and Jamie Thomas King who play young Londoners who deal with relationship complications while meeting at a local storage yard as one couple deals with a break-up as their best friends give support.
The cast is as good as you can for a film of this genre, Clarke does well cast against type, you can tell this is a bit low budget, only the special effects to make the alien add the needed moments of tension, most of the film relies on reactions and slow footsteps to outrun the creature, and there are the small gory moments to make scary movie fans happy, it does feel a good old fashioned B-movie of sorts, a worthwhile science fiction horror.