Crawlspace (2012)

Very best movie i ever watch

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

I like that the other reviews on IMDb don't talk too much about the plot, I watched this film tonight and thoroughly enjoyed it, and I was happy to not know too much beforehand. The references to other movies are fair enough, but I think there's a bit of a trend to describe films as "This movie" meets "That movie", and sometimes that's fair enough: but I think this film stands on its own merits.I liked the characters, I liked the plot, I like the pace of the story; I like the idea of the movie; I like the special effects. It's not a splatter movie but it is a fine addition to Antipodean genre films.I would definitely watch a sequel, I can't explain more without giving away spoilers!If you enjoy low-budget genre movies that transcend their financial limitations through darn good film-making, this is well worth a watch.

In 1966 the Australian and U.S. Governments established Pine Gap, a top secret research facility in the remote Australian outback. Fifteen hours ago all contact with the facility was lost, cause unknown. Then there are messages telling that the prisoners have escaped. Three helicopters with a group of elite soldiers are sent to rescue the scientists and eliminate the dangerous prisoners. Commander Romeo (Ditch Davey) leads the team formed by Fourpack (Eddie Baroo), Wiki (Peta Sergeant) and Kid (Fletcher Humphrys) that is mysteriously attacked by strange creatures in the underground. When Romeo meets the amnesic prisoner Eve (Amber Clayton), he protects her compromising their mission. When his team questions who Eve is, Romeo tells that she is his wife that died years ago in Paris. When they find the scientists Darious Caesar (Nicholas Belt), Emily (Ngaire Dawn Fair) and Matthews (Samuel Johnson), they learn that the scientists are developing powerful psychic soldiers in the facility. Who is Eve? Will the soldiers succeed in their assignment?"Crawlspace" is a claustrophobic movie with a promising idea, good acting but poor beginning and conclusion. The story begins without any development, with a group of soldiers breaking in a facility in the outback of Australia. The viewer does not know whether the story happens in the present, past or future; how is the government of this society; and who are the prisoners (criminals, political). The action is reasonable and when Eve opens the body bag and is surprised with her discovery, the viewer never knows who was there (might be the alien in her recollection, but it is not clear). What Romeo did to his wife and why is also confused and not clear. Last but not the least, the conclusion is totally disappointing. My vote is five.Title (Brazil): "Fortaleza Secreta" ("Secret Fortress")

Some military unit is sent to a secret Australian/US military facility to kill everyone. On their kill list are a bunch of people in orange jumpsuits. We meet one of them, a pretty blonde girl. She's hiding in the vent ducts. The facility is on high alert, security teams are shooting anything in sight.The military unit runs into this girl and it turns out that the commander knows the girl--it's his wife who he thought was dead. But there's something else in the facility-- some giant ape that is chasing them. The unit together with the girl escape in a room where they find other people. They are researchers who know what goes on in the facility. One of them talks about hallucinations, another about biomechanics. The blonde has a scar on her scull, she demands to know what they did to her. She takes one of the researchers with her, the unit takes the boss and his assistant with the them.We learn that the blonde was indeed an experiment subject. She was military and volunteered for this program. Part of her brain was removed and replaced with part of another subject's brain. The goal of the project was to create psychics with the power to control other people's thoughts/ to implant hallucinations in their minds. At the same time other people became the guardian's of a person's mind, to protect it from psychics. All this because as the boss says, war is too important to be left in the hands of the military. We learn some more about the relationship of the commander with the blonde. And eventually we find out what happens with all these people.I wasn't expecting much from this movie. People confined in a "crawlspace" rarely make for an entertaining movie. Although in this case people spend a lot of time in vents and ducts. And people going mad and hallucinating also makes for terrible movies. Put those two together and it sounds like you'll end up with an awful movie. But I'm glad to say that it's not the case with this movie at all. Amber Clayton is absolutely gorgeous. There's a bit of horror and some gore. But what impressed me were the ideas, the twists and surprises. Nothing turns out as expected at all, and just as you think you've figured things out, they hit you with another unexpected thing. The script is rich and shows depth, far more than most sci-fi/action/horror movies. Crawlspace is a remarkable effort.

This movie was pretty good. It had an original twist, which is a rare thing for movies these days. The acting was just OK, though. The script was decent and the action all right - not great, but all right. Mostly, I liked how the screenwriter fools the viewers with this mystery survivor. Yes, the movie did have some elements of Aliens (you could tell the actors were trying to recreate that kind of energy with the soldiers charging in) and Scanners (which I loved). So, this low-budget sci-fi was decent and watchable and overall entertaining. I wouldn't put it on any must-see sci-fi film lists, but it works for a rainy afternoon inside on the iPad.