Death Tunnel
| Death Tunnel | |
|---|---|
 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Philip Adrian Booth |
| Produced by |
Christopher Saint Booth, Shane Dax Taylor |
| Written by |
Christopher Saint Booth, Philip Adrian Booth |
| Starring |
Steffany Huckaby, Annie Burgstede, Kristin Novak, Jason Lasater |
| Music by | Christopher Saint Booth |
| Cinematography |
Philip Adrian Booth, Marcel Cabrera, Roberto Correa |
| Edited by | Philip Adrian Booth |
| Distributed by |
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (USA), Columbia TriStar Home Video (UK) |
Release dates | 2005 |
Running time | 91 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,500,000 (est.) |
Death Tunnel is a 2005 horror movie filmed at the Waverly Hills Sanatorium.[1][2] It stars Steffany Huckaby, Annie Burgstede, Kristin Novak, and Jason Lasater.
Plot
The movie starts with a blonde, running around with a white towel wrapped around her body. She has a sharp piece of glass in her right hand, and is frightened by what is going on. She hears someone coming, and when that stranger comes, she stabs the person several times, but when she realizes what she has done, she is shocked, and sad. In 1932, in Kentucky, there is a little girl, sitting in a truck with a driver whose face cannot be seen. She asks why she can't enter the sanatorium, and the driver that is seated next to her says that "she" died there. The child then asks who, and the driver is shown to be a gory-faced woman. The scene transitions to Heather (Steffany Huckaby), who was daydreaming about the sanatorium. She is in a college course, studying the "White Plague"(Tuberculosis) and how it took 63,000 lives.
Class is dismissed, and Heather meets up with Tori (Anne Burgstede) and some other girl. While Heather is talking to Tori, a man, who is Richie, slips an invitation into Heather's hand, which reads Truth or Scare. Heather watches Richie as he crosses the street to meet Ashley (Kristin Novak), a snotty rich girl who owns half of Kentucky. The scene then transitions to 5 different girls that have bags over their heads, while a voice is talking over the intercom, speaking "You have 5 hours to get out. One girl is on each floor. 5 girls, 5 hours, 5 floors.
Later that night, Heather and Tori decide to join the party. They are standing by the bar, when Richie(Jason Lasater), comes on stage and tells the crowd that 5 lucky contestants will be picked to stay in Waverly Hills Sanatorium. The scene then goes back to the sanatorium, with the five girls struggling to remove the masks. Some of them find a way out of their masks, while others are struggling. The voice comes on again, repeating itself. While all the college students are working on removing their masks, two men, Mason (Jilan Ghai) and Cameron (Jesse Bernstein) are setting up cameras around the hospital. Cameron is complaining about how the cameras are not going to function, but Mason tells him that they will. Then, something catches their eyes, and the screen fizzes. The screen then cuts back to the party. Richie continues on about the 5 lucky contestants. While Richie is explaining, the cameras focuses on Heater and Tori, but then Ashley walks by and bumps into Tori, telling her to watch where she is going. Tori and Heather then focus on Richie, and burlap sacks cover their heads out of nowhere.
The movie goes back to the sanatorium, but this time, focuses on Devon (Melanie Lewis), Elizabeth (Yolando Pecoraro), and Ashely, who have successfully taken their masks off. The camera focuses on Elizabeth, who is yelling at the camera that she wants to go home. Then the camera switches scenes, watching Ashley. Richie arrives at the sanatorium, only to find that his crew is nowhere to be seen. He watches Ashley, who talks to the camera, tells Richie that he is an incurable, disease-ridden man that is like all of the patients that ever stayed at the hospital. The door then opens. The camera then switches to Elizabeth, who is trying to find a way out. She locates a window, and starts smashing it with her hand, only to receive a severe cut on her palm. The light bulb in her room starts to light up, and the door slowly swings open. Elizabeth walks out, and looks up the staircase, only to see a woman in a white dress. She leans on the post of the stairwell, only to be frightened by the sight of the woman she had previously seen, hanging. She runs back into her room, and closes the door. A person wielding a hatchet starts to break down her door, but abruptly stops, letting Elizabeth go. Devon then is seen walking out of her door. The scene then switches to Heather and Tori, who are questioning why they were chosen. Tori then starts to act strangely, saying "Listen Anne, do hear the train? Ummmmm, I can smell the waffles, Anne. They're cooking it for us." Heather then smacks Tori, and Tori does not remember what happened. Heather then tells Tori that they will find a way, and that they need to stay together.
The scene switches back to Elizabeth, who is walking the halls. She hears a little girl laughing, and finally, she finds a little girl in a white dress, roaming the halls with a tetherball. The little girl rolls the ball to Elizabeth, and Elizabeth does not know what to think, but then she is seen joyful and playful while tossing the ball to the little girl. The ball rolls to a stop, and Elizabeth is again frightful, ad out of nowhere, the ball is lifted into the air by an invisible entity, and is thrown at full speed right at Elizabeth. Elizabeth then stars running, tearing the net out of the door. She tore about half, but then Elizabeth is dragged away. The screen still focuses on the door, and Elizabeth's face is shown mutilated through the door. Devon is shown to be in a locker room, where she discovers a nurse's coat, and a necklace with the initials RTV. She is then seen walking out of the room. Then the view switches to Heather and Tori, but are separated shortly when an elevator opens and Tori is pushed into it.
Ashley is then shown ready to take a shower. Richie is watching her strip, and as he does, she taunts him, telling Richie that he should be lucky to have a girl like her. The showers then go out, and blood starts to pour out from the shower heads. She screams out of fear, but it is shown that she dreamed about the blood. Richie watches as Ashley is screaming. He rushes to the floor that she is on, only to run into Tori, who is screaming at Richie, who she calls Richard, that she is pregnant, and she wants the baby out of her. Richie then runs out of the room when Tori starts bleeding from the vagina. Ashley then spots twins, who are half nude, walking towards her. She runs out of fear, and looks back, only to find that they are not there. She still runs and hears somebody approaching, so she decides to hide behind the corner, and jumps out at the person that was approaching. Ashley brutally wounds the stranger, and stops, but realizes that she murdered her friend, Devon. She runs away at the sight of her best friend's death, and runs into Richie. Richie tells Ashley to calm down.
Heather then runs into the duo and tells them that everyone else is dead
Cast
- Steffany Huckaby – Heather
- Melanie Lewis – Devon
- Yolanda Pecoraro – Elizabeth
- Kristin Novak – Ashley
- Annie Burgstede – Tori
- Jason Lasater – Richie
- Gary Wolf – Gio
- Robyn Corum – Leah
- Gill Gayle – Professor
- Brian Dyer – Dr. Vanguard
- Reenie Varga – Spinal Nurse
- Jilon Ghai – Mason
- Jesse Bernstein – Cameron
- George W. Harr Jr. – Death in Sanatorium
- B.J. Winslow – Death in Morgue
- Joan Farrell – Traci