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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 432204" data-attributes="member: 23">Last night's questionable horror was..The Bunker (2015) originally titled The Hoarder <img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimages-na.ssl-images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FS%2Fpv-target-images%2Fc2fcf9a8548be9deb931a30f76fafc7f8acf25049ee19324498b53e17f550565._RI_V_TTW_.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=79c0278a0334ff2cc1e7143af94f9ac7e6f1671a5a4f5f7090b2369d1b949c88" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 602px" />Firstly, The Hoarder has a poster - a strange man-creature with mouth stapled shut - which is better representative of what the film became. And had I known that the film would include such stuff I'd have steered clear, since I find this kind of stuff quite silly and tedious. I feel the atmospheric poster above misrepresented to me what I would actually get.I noticed Emily Atack's name in the opening credits, and recognised it as that of Kate Robbins's daughter. With that in mind, I'd assumed she was the main character who had a rather dodgy American accent (hugely over-pronouncing all her R sounds. Except when she forgot to do so). But no, it turns out this is Mischa Barton, and Emily was the one that I was convinced had one of the film's only authentic American accents.There are moments of promise and a few jump scares that worked. It felt very much that it was going for an Alien kind of tone, with a disparate group in an isolated setting full of shadowy corridors and different levels from which a creature could appear at any moment. It's clear some effort had gone into make up effects, but it lost me after the first sighting of a creature (which was quite early on).The performances were not great. The lead was photogenic and looked suitably terrified, but there was no connection with the viewer. The people she met along the way (yes, like Dorothy on the Yellow Brick Road) were mostly one-dimensional archetypes with a single characteristic. The "gruff" cop (the actor going overboard from his first scene with sniffing and peeling back his top lip or trying to make his veins throb in an attempt to give off threatening and intense vibes). The drowsy, bohemian drug addicted woman (such a bore). The bossy, shallow, grasping soon-to-be-ex-wife of the man she'd trodden over for years (I knew she wasn't long for this world when it was established she was taking 60% of his income as part of the divorce). And so on.There's a twist as to behind it's all, and while one feels it's supposed to make things more threatening by subverting expectations, it actually ended up slightly comical for all the wrong reasons.Really, it wasn't my cup of tea and that's fine.  I wouldn't have wished to condemn it but for the fact that the poster image and blurb mis-sold the film to me as an atmospheric, suspense-filled horror-thriller. Which it isn't.</blockquote>

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