The Devil's Tomb

Plot synopsis:
An elite group of soldiers led by Mack (Cuba Gooding Jr.), are sent by a CIA agent named Elissa Cardell (Valerie Cruz) to rescue her father, a scientist named Wesley (Ron Perlman), who is working on an archaeological dig in the Middle Eastern desert. When they enter the dig site, which is a large underground laboratory, they encounter a priest who has strange boils all over his body. The team's medic, Doc (Taryn Manning), sedates the priest. Click (Brandon Fobbs) uses the dig site's terminal to activate the elevator and notices something codenamed the Gehenna Project. He asks Cardell if she knows what it is but she denies knowing about it. Mack orders Nickels (Zack Ward) to stay and watch the priest while the rest of the team takes the elevator deeper into the dig site.
When they exit the elevator they encounter a scientist named Duncan (Bill Moseley), who has strange boils like the priest. Duncan attacks Hammer (Franky G) but is shot in the chest by Mack. While treating Duncan's wound, Doc has a hallucination of her sister angry at her for letting her die. Duncan and Doc disappear but the team uses Doc's tracking device to follow after them. The team splits up and Yoshi (Stephanie Jacobsen) follows a hallucination of her and Hicks's (Jason London) unborn daughter. The team runs into Duncan, who is trying to open the door to the safe room. Duncan yells at the team about their ignorance of salvation and Mack shoots him in the head, which strangely doesn't kill him, but when the entire team shoots him he finally dies.
The door to the safety room is opened from the inside, revealing a priest named Fulton (Henry Rollins), who Cardell knows, and who tells them that Doc was probably taken to the temple; he agrees to take them there. The team notices that Yoshi is missing and, when they find her, she tells them of her hallucination. Fulton explains that the possessed use visions to tempt humans. Mack then duct tapes Fulton's mouth shut. Nickels hallucinates a nude woman and he is attacked by the priest; he fights back with a knife but has his arm broken and the priest spits a dark fluid into his mouth, then drags him away.
Click is separated from the team and encounters Doc locked in some room; when he tries to help her he is attacked by a possessed obese scientist. Hammer shows up and rescues Click, but more possessed start to appear, Hammer decides to throws explosives at the group, causing the passage to collapse. Fulton and the team arrive at the temple, where they learn from Fulton and Cardell that the scientists are possessed because they absorbed the spirit of one of the Nephilim, which is frozen in the temple, to prevent it from escaping. Fulton explains that the dig site is one of many tombs created by God to imprison Nephilim. Yoshi follows the hallucination to Doc, who is revealed to be possessed. She seduces Yoshi and allows her to lick strange, infectious boils on her shoulder, infecting her. Doc then cuts her back open. When the team notices that Yoshi is missing, Hicks and Hammer try to find her. During their search, a possessed Doc attacks Hammer, who aims his gun at her after he notices that she has developed boils. Hicks points his gun at Hammer, who tries to tell Hicks that Doc is possessed. Hicks doesn't believe him and shoots at Hammer, who manages to run away.
Hicks then chases Doc and finds Yoshi, whose spine is exposed. He tries to help her but she attacks him, and then Doc rips his throat out. Hammer arrives back at the temple to tell Mack about Doc and Hicks.
Fulton realizes that, with Click's unintentional help, Cardell activated the Gehenna Project, which is a self-destruct device for the dig site. He runs for the elevator alone. The soldiers only have fifteen minutes to get to the elevator before the explosion. The door to the temple slowly starts closing. Mack, Cardell, and Click make it out of the temple but Hammer gets locked in and, surrounded by possessed scientists, he puts up a fight, but he is overwhelmed and sets off his grenades, killing himself and the possessed scientists attacking him. Fulton is pushed into barbed wire by Doc, who then slits his throat.
Mack, Cardell, and Click arrive at the area where they encountered Duncan for the first time, and they meet up with Wesley, who is possessed but doesn't have the boils. Doc and Nickels, who is now possessed, arrive and Mack and Click shoot him and a few other possessed until the possessed priest grabs Click, drags him away and kills him. Mack has a hallucination of his old best friend Blakeley (Ray Winstone), who Mack was ordered to murder years ago. Mack resists and shoots an explosive barrel next to Wesley which burns him and kills Doc, along with the hallucination of Blakeley. Cardell stands over Wesley and sets his soul free. When Mack tells her that they have to leave she refuses, saying that her goal was to set her father's soul free. Mack makes it to the elevator alone and escapes from the dig site seconds before the explosion. Mack is then picked up by the helicopter and realizes that he has a new purpose in the world, that he is a new soldier in an ancient war.

Tags: paranormal, violence, murder, flashback

Review:
Maybe here: Soldiers who don't at all act & move like trained soldiers, female soldiers with make-up on while in combat, some third rate CGI effects that I could do on my PC in fifteen minutes, and enough plot-holes and unexplained crap to lose count of fairly fast.In fairness, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Bill Mosely made the film ALMOST watchable.
After 48 minutes I found myself being thankful that I was more than half way into the film.I thought years ago (in the 80's) that low-end horror flicks couldn't get any more lame, but was DEAD WRONG.
Full of clichéd one liners that weren't even funny in the eighties and the characters are so 2 dimensional it isn't even funny.If i didn't know better i'd think i was watching an Uwe Boll film.I know films like this aren't made to win Oscars but the writer could have at least but a bit of effort into it, instead of recycling every cheezy 80's action B movies lines putting them into this film!!!.
When I started watching the movie I was stunned at the silly plot, empty conversations, bad actors play , the bad effects and cheesy make up.
The sexually charged scenes were actually ruined , in my opinion, by some disgusting moments ( the make up…) In conclusion I would like to say that this is a movie that will irreversibly waste one and a half hours of your live.
The Devil's Tomb has a classic "B" cinema plot, and it counts on its cast with various actors of a medium caliber, something which is not usual on this kind of movies.That could indicate an excellent screenplay...or actors who sacrificed their dignity in order to win some money.The Devil's Tomb is somewhere in the middle of that...its screenplay is not very good, but it is not bad either, and the movie is not bad to say that the actors sacrificed their dignity.In summary, we are in presence of a mediocre but moderately entertaining horror film.On the previously mentioned cast, we have Cuba Gooding Jr., an Academy Award winning actor who sent his career to hell after participating on horrible comedies (like Boat Trip) and laughable dramas (like Radio); The Devil's Tomb is better than the movies he tends to participate, but that does not mean this film is very good.And, on the cast, we also have Ray Winstone, Ron Perlman, Taryn Manning and Bill Moseley.It was very weird for me to see them participating on a low-budget and straight-to-DVD horror film.The reason of that may be its director, Jason Connery (son of the famous Sean), making his first work as a director with material which is familiar to him, because he has participated as an actor on other straight-to-DVD horror films (like Brotherhood of Blood and Alone in the Dark 2).The main fail from The Devil's Tomb is that it has many clichés.Connery made a decent work, because he keeps a good rhythm and he created a few sequences which produce adequate atmosphere and suspense.Besides, the story may not be too original and, as I mentioned before, it has many clichés, but it is well structured more or less.I also appreciated the energy and enthusiasm shown on the performances.In conclusion, I will give a slight recommendation to this mediocre but moderately entertaining movie, although the final experience is forgettable.However, I cannot deny this movie ended up being a bit better than I expected..
It's religion / apocalypse theme nonsense (directed by Sean Connery's son Jason) with dumb, dumb characters, supposedly playing a crack Special Forces team, recruited to probe the mystery of what happened at an underground installation / archaeological dig.
Cuba's character Captain Mack is the guy in charge, and it's dispiriting to see him look so weary, and clearly thinking, "Can someone please rescue me from this junk?"The rest of the cast doesn't fare any better, despite the presence of some familiar faces.
There is enough gore and grossness on hand to allow for some amusement.Badly written, badly directed, and totally lacking in suspense and excitement, "The Devil's Tomb" couldn't even get up to average level, even for a B movie lover such as this viewer.Four out of 10..
Take ideas and plot points from Alien, Aliens, Event Horizon, and (especially) Prince of Darkness and add some absurdity, sprinkle with blood and implausible characters and this is what you get.Those were all vastly better films but this isn't quite as horrible as some junk on SyFy so if it's free to watch you could do worse.
Also amusing were the military tactics used in the Iraq flashbacks but I'm not sure they meant for me to chuckle during the battle scenes.If you want a much better film along the same lines, watch Prince of Darkness instead and during the slow parts imagine space marines using electronic trackers that never seem to work, dodging acid-spewing creatures while running into long-dead loved ones without wondering how they happened to be there.
Cuba Gooding Jr heads up a Special Ops team which includes Taryn Manning, Franky G, Zack Ward, Brandon Fobbs, Stephany Jacobsen and Jason London they have been hired by Dr Elissa Cardell (Valerie Cruz) who wants to rescue her father Ron Perlman who is in a top secret scientific/military bunker.
The troops are your average gung-ho grunts while Cuba Gooding acts as their moral compass despite experiencing random flashbacks to a previous conflict where Ray Winstone, his commanding officer, was killed.
Unbeknown to the special ops team from the start, Ron Perlman, whom they are trying to save is the chosen host for the fallen angel which puts an additional complication in their way, mind you, the story that Dr Cardell has weaved isn't all that true and honest anyway so an extra complication is nothing.
The acting in this isn't by a long way convincing, it's actually Ron Perlman that seems the most convincing and he's only in 15% of the film, by contrast Henry Rollins character is the least believable for me.
It wasn't just disappointing to see the great Ron Perlman and Cuba Gooding Jr. in this piece of dreck, it was actually depressing.
In short, The Devil's Tomb makes such movies as Terminal Invasion or The Woods or any of the Phantasm series look like high art.
Now this movie as i'm sure we all know stars Cuba Gooding Jr. along with a few other big names like Ron Perlman, and Ray Winstone, then some smaller familiar faces like Jason London and Taryn Manning.
Now Cuba leads a group of soldiers on a rescue mission to get professor Ron Perlman out of this underground research lab during the war in Iraq (im pretty sure i don't recall hearing where they are) the effects are mostly very realistic there is not much CGI which is pretty good to see since nowadays too many horror movies are loaded with CGI.
One thing you have to keep in mind is that this movie is digusting and i mean disgusting there are a few gross out scenes in this that may make it hard for you to watch, for example the characters who get infected with the black stuff get boils and its absolutely disgusting the boils puss and there's another scene that includes kissing and sucking boils so keep that in mind.
Another thing here is that this movie involves religion also which both does and doesn't surprise me (cause of the name and cause well it didn't look like it at first weird i know).
What the team discovers, is that something ancient and sinister has been unleashed, and it's up to them to make certain the evil can't escape into the world (while figuring out a way to survive said evil at the same time).To be fair, Cuba Gooding, Jr. is the MAN.
Guns, blood and cheap special effects do not a good movie make (but they apparently make money, considering it was on the Blockbuster shelf as a "best seller" – go figure, eh.
The Devil's Tomb is the type of movie that gets better as the film rolls along.
What could go wrong in a movie starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Ron Perlman and Henry Rollins?
Both Ron Perlman and Henry Rollins just have episodic roles while Cuba plays the most unmilitary special team leader I have ever seen.
In following the by the numbers ALIENS (1986) motiff including the military characters, the military protocol, even perhaps as much or more so than almost any other movie of its kind,the pinging locator beacon Mr. Kojornes actually ends up making an effort towards a more cerebral and satisfying horror action thriller.
Captain Mack (Oscar-Winner:Cuba Gooding Jr.) and his team (Taryn Manning, Zack Ward, Frankie G, Jason London, Brandon Fobbs and Stephanie Jacobsen) along with an CIA agent named Elissa Cardell (Valerie Cruz) are descending deep below civilization.
While Mack has flashbacks of his former best friend Blakely (Ray Winstone) and the ancient evil is trying to kill them, one at a time.Directed by Jason Connery (51, Pandemic) made an enjoyable, trashy, cheesy and in this very made "B" movie.
The movie has an surprisingly good cast including Henry Rollins and Bill Moseley in a memorable bit part as a possessed scientist.DVD has an good anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) transfer and an fine Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound.
Okay, Perlman will act in everything just as Cuba Gooding in the last couple of years but what was going through Ray Winstones head when he said 'yes' to this part since his career has never been better than now.
I think Cuba Gooding needs to learn how to say, 'Would you like fries with that?' after acting in a movie like that.".
Cuba: You are a good actor, so what were you thinking when you read this script.
The film's biggest issue is that the plot is a mess, as despite how nicely involved it is the storyline is confusing and it's just really hard to get going at times when instead of being chilling about who's possessed and who isn't this one just becomes so bogged down in religious prophecies and warnings that it loses a lot of the fear it's supposed to build.
The 'plot' follows a team of mercenaries headed up by Cuba Gooding Jr. and Taryn Manning, sent into an underground research facility, where scientists have uncovered...
I do not have to add much.Twisting scripture is always a minus: Hebrew 9:22 being a part of the OT is ridiculous as it is a book in the NT and also twisting "The Nephilim" to be a fallen angel instead of an actual giant....but what can you really expect from Hellywood.I've seen better B-movies.I wouldn't say it is worth watching even.
They also end up finding the dad of CIA girl, but by now he's got other plans than just leave with the unit.Devil's Tomb has a strong cast in Gooding, London, Perlman, Moseley and especially the drop dead gorgeous Valerie Cruz.
An elite mercenary team (led by Cuba Gooding Jr.) is sent on a mission to a desert somewhere in the middle east to extract a scientist (played by Ron Perlman) from an underground facility.
Never heard about this movie prior to actually sitting down to watch it, so I had no hopes or expectations to the movie, which I suppose was good in its own way.The story told in "The Devil's Tomb" is, well, kind of boring.
And as for Cuba Gooding Jr., well again, it was just an average performance here.I was thoroughly entertained throughout the movie, despite the lack of meat on the storyline, but there was just something about the movie that wanted you to make it all the way to the end.
Good enough for an evening's worth of entertainment, but not solid enough for a second watching.And as for the title of the movie, "The Devil's Tomb", wow?
The Devil's Tomb feels like one of those cheap DTV horror films, only with a big name cast.
I really don't know what happened to Cuba's career, but I hope he revives it soon, because watching such a talented actor like him flounder in this type of garbage is just sad.Performances.
By the first 20 minutes, I was hoping that this movie would be an attempt to take the "Prince of Darkness" concept to a new level, just on the military side-- but they stumbled off into the proverbial dark.Fact is-- today-- if you're going to try and render the story of the Battle of Heaven and Fallen Angels in a modern, non-religious plot-- you must have a savvy, coherent, intelligent script that can mix in SERIOUS theology, historical bits and science together into something the viewer can see as plausible.
The first 10 minutes of the film are really slow and nothing is added to the story.All we see is a supposed elite military force acting like children and insulting each other and moaning about the mission.
If they had spent this time introducing the characters and their relationships with each other then I might have maybe cared a little about what happens to them.I get the feeling the writer of this movie had recently seen Event Horizon, Doom and Mutant Chronicles and basically copied any ideas that this movie does have from there, this film isn't as good as any of them though.The annoying flashbacks that occur regularly for Cuba Gooding Jr. character are badly portrayed and fail at explaining the relationship between Cuba and Ray Winstone.The Military unit act completely unprofessionally and don't watch each others backs at all and keep wondering off alone.
Now when you have Cuba Gooding Jr., Ray Winstone, Ron Perlman and even Taryn Manning (who really surprised me with a fun performance.); you are going to have decent acting.
Throw in a fun Henry Rollins as a priest bit and an over the top performance by Bill Moseley and you have one of the best-acted B movies this year.
The acting is good, the script is decent, the story, locations, special effects and direction are all above average.
The watches will catch you off guard if your a fan of military movies and the bit with soldiers disobeying orders gets a little tired but it's nothing you can't look past.The subject matter of the film might upset some, as might the gore and violence, but anyone watching a horror film should expect all of the above and quite possibly worse.
It's a great movie and it certainly doesn't deserve to be trashed because the story, acting and production values are all simply to good to ignore.
If you like movies along the lines of Prince Of Darkness (1987), End Of Day's (1999) or even Constantine (2005) then I think you'll get into this.
The acting is awful and the plot is thinner than water.Before watching it i was told it was a scary movie with a lot of gore and killing as you would expect from horror movie about some soldiers going into a saving mission 900m under the earths surface.
He tries to make it scary by putting in some little girls Japanese style but it just doesn't work.There's a serious lack of gore in this movie and the only semi-good acting is provided by Cuba Gooding.
Even Ron Perlman can't be considered a star, for he only sporadically appears in the film, and doesn't interact with other actors until the very end.Overall, the movie is appalling.
I'd give it 1 out of 10, but it gets two additional stars for the scene in which Cuba Gooding's character orders his men to gag the priest played by Rollins just to shut him up.
To be honest, the way the movie ended could have happened in the first ten minutes of the flick and saved us a lot of time.
The ending, with Cuba doing his speech thing, I was just thinking, Dude you went from A-List to Z-List.This movie should have been produced better, given a proper budget, throw in realistic special effects, some cgi,...
Third, the Action.The Story- Mack (Gooding Jr.) leads a group of Special Forces guys and gals into a creepy underground facility to find a scientist who has presumably been part of some kind of freaky experiment (This role was played by Ron Perlman, of Hellboy fame).
As the film progresses, Mack and his team will discover all sorts of scary things, ranging from a creepy little girl to a creepier Bill Moseley.The Acting- Cuba is great in this, he played a great sullen character who led his team, who have their own back stories.
You know how some folks tell you a thing is really bad and you go see for yourself, not expecting much, and you're pleasantly surprised that it's actually good.
It wins the waste-of-film decathlon, from a horrible plot to terrible dialogue to cliché acting and plot devices to "action scenes" that are just baffling.First off, whoever wrote this movie is either a pseudo-Christian or they're not a Christian at all, and rather than do anything remotely like researching the topic of their script, they just kind of assumed everything.
Never mind getting the big name actors like Cuba, Ron and Ray (with a terrible yank drawl I might add)I be happy with Tom, Bruce or Mel. The plot of this low budget flick(such as it was)was only supported by meager acting and even more meager special effects.
Pass The Vomit Bag. I rented this movie after seeing the trailer on another DVD, looked interesting, I like Sci-Fi , Cuba Gooding Jr. was an added reason to rent this movie.
Notable for starring Cuba Gooding Jr, Ron Perlman, and Henry Rollins this is a typical low budget horror film bumped up with a bigger name cast.
The cast seemed impressive enough with Cuba and Pearlman, the plot had possibilities, and after seeing the intro, it was clear the movie had a budget as well.