Boasts a killer premise and better than average acting, so it's all the more disappointing that Anderson proves unable to avoid annoying horror movie pitfalls.
Shuttle (2009)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:11
Rotten:10
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: While this debut by Edward Anderson is economical and occasionally effective, Shuttle offers little catharsis after its tense ride.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong violence, terror, language and brief nudity.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Mar 6, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: When Jules (Cameron Goodman) and Mel (Peyton List) return from a girls’ weekend vacation, they find themselves stranded at the airport, late on a rain-drenched night. Wanting just to get home... When Jules (Cameron Goodman) and Mel (Peyton List) return from a girls’ weekend vacation, they find themselves stranded at the airport, late on a rain-drenched night. Wanting just to get home safe and sound, they board an airport shuttle with a helpful, friendly driver (Tony Curran) for the short trip... that turns out to be anything but safe. From writer-director Edward Anderson, making his directorial debut, comes a terrifying thriller about a night that starts like any other, and a ride home that descends into darkness. --© Truly Indie [More]
Starring: Peyton List, Cameron Goodman, Tony Curran, Cullen Douglas
Starring: Peyton List, Cameron Goodman, Tony Curran, Cullen Douglas, Dave Power, James Snyder
Director: Edward Anderson
Director: Edward Anderson
Screenwriter: Edward Anderson
Producer: Mark Williams, Todd Lemley, Allan Jones, Michael Pierce, Mark Donadio
Composer: Henning Lohner
Studio: Truly Indie
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Reviews for Shuttle
Hop aboard this Shuttle if you're in the mood for one unsettling ride.
The characters are aggressive and mostly smart, the villain is fearsome and hateful, and the premise ('An airport shuttle ride descends into darkness') is brilliantly simple.
Well conceived thriller, Shuttle takes the familiar situation and develops it into terrifying ordeal
Shuttle could have worked but it is so bogged down with clichés and predictable twists that it comes apart at its illogical seams.
The film is an efficiently engineered mechanism for creating suspense.
When the payoff finally arrives, it seems tasteless not just because of its topicality, but because the shock feels unearned.
There is no release for the audience, no 'entertainment,' not even much action excitement. Just a remorseless march into the dark.
Shuttle mostly exists, in the words of Alfred Hitchcock, to 'put the audience through it,' but it leaves you in a very different place than where it started and with remarkable economy of effort.
Instead of suspense, we get frustration at the stupidity of the characters.
Shuttle is a grim and twisted exercise in high-stress terror that falls just short of the torture-porn subgenre.
Anderson focuses entirely on cat-and-mouse capers, while failing to reflect in any serious way upon the real-world issues that his plot exploits, so the end result is a disappointingly empty exercise in genre.
If you step aboard Shuttle, be prepared for one heck of a ride filled with suspense, action and ever-escalating terror. With this ingenious thriller, Edward Anderson, who wrote the heist flick Flawless, makes an audacious directorial debut.
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