Aftershock (2013)
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Reviews Counted: 46
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 29
Aftershock hints at an inventive twist on horror tropes, but ultimately settles for another round of mind-numbing depravity that may alternately bore and revolt all but the most ardent gore enthusiasts.
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 12
Aftershock hints at an inventive twist on horror tropes, but ultimately settles for another round of mind-numbing depravity that may alternately bore and revolt all but the most ardent gore enthusiasts.
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What happens to a group of travelers who are in an underground nightclub in Chile when a massive earthquake hits? Hint: Nothing good!
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Cast
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Lorenza Izzo
Kylie -
Nicolás Martínez Zem...
Pollo -
Eli Roth
Gringo -
Natasha Yarovenko
Irina -
Ariel Levy
Ariel -
Marcial Tagle
Firefighter -
Andrea Osvárt
Monica -
Ramon Llao
Ramon -
Alvaro Lopez
Jesús -
Ignacia Allamand
Guide -
Dayana Amigo
Bartender -
Patricio Strahovsky
Priest -
Matias Lopez
Marito -
Eduardo Dominguez
Russell Dazzle -
Gabriela Hernández
Cleaning Lady -
Edgardo Bruna
Grumpy Operator -
Cristina Sanchez Pas...
Kindly Woman -
Igal Furman
Bouncer -
Paz Bascuñan
Pregnant Woman -
Vicki Silva
Red Head Woman -
Benito Quercia
Bald Man -
Stephany Schroer
Amanda -
Adrián Salgado
Flaite 1 - Adrián -
Orlando Alfaro
Flaite 2 - Cristofer -
Enrique Quiroz
Flaite 3 - Bairon -
Fran Concha
Guide's Friend -
Marcela de la Carrer...
Homeless Woman -
Carlos Martinez
Man -
Ingrid Leyton
Mother -
Baltazar Amaya
8 Year Old Boy -
Camilo Amaya
10 Year Old Boy -
Ignacio Verdugo
Dying Firefighter -
Nicolas Carrasco
6 Year Old Boy -
Amaro Diaz
4 Year Old Boy -
Pablo Courard
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All Critics (47) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (29)
This Dimension pickup is a hectic, sometimes hilarious guilty pleasure that should delight genre geeks.
Top CriticIs no continent safe from the blood-drenched paws of filmmaker Eli Roth?
Aftershock's best attribute is the disregard it shows for the safety of its central "heroes" who perish in brutal and generally unexpected ways.
"Aftershock" is ultimately predictable in its litany of who lives and who dies, and doesn't try to be too ironic or self-reflexive about it.
On the seismic scale of entertainment, "Aftershock" registers a 1.5.
A weird mash-up of disaster, horror and dystopia genre pictures, "Aftershock" fails to make the Earth move.
Very, very ordinary.
It gleefully chops its cast down in increasingly alarming and brutal ways.
It feels like overeager tourists playing make believe on the old Earthquake attraction at Universal Studios. The parts that work better are intentionally played for laughs.
The cosmopolitan cast never develops much chemistry, and the script settles into a predictable pattern of gory mayhem.
Was Aftershock just an elaborate ruse by writer-producer-star Eli Roth to justify an extended vacation to Chile?
You just might find yourself rooting for the earthquake to win out in the end.
Ultimately, Aftershock ends up having the nihilistic outlook of Funny Games with the charming international optimism of Hostel.
If you're in the midst of such a massive quake, with destruction everywhere, the last thing you should be doing is worrying about escaped murderer-rapist prisoners.
If 'The Impossible' was a disaster film for the arthouse, 'Aftershock' is strictly grindhouse. It delivers the nasty goods.
Aftershock Is Like Piranha 3D Meets The Impossible
You can only listen to so much screaming and crying before it stops having the desired effect (ratcheting up the viewer's stress level) and simply becomes grating.
Supposed to be a subversive hybrid of disaster movies and gory horror, but it's uncertain where the two actually meet.
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Synopsis: A group of "young people" who seek an adventure (lead by non-actor Eli Roth himself) attempt to find it in a country outside of the United States. And then bad stuff happens. Does this plot sound like "Hostel" yet? Well, it is sort of "Hostel", in Chile, if the sadistic killers had been replaced by a natural disaster.
The problem with this film comes down to the simple fact that the duration of an earthquake is only a few seconds long. So, after said phenomenon occurs, the movie doesn't seem to know what to do with itself, as if Roth and friends hadn't come prepared with any other plot development which could sustain a feature length film. So, aside from a few smirk inducing social network jokes, an extremely short back and forth between Roth and one Selena Gomez and some minor suspenseful situations in the final 30 minutes, "Aftershock" is a generic and somewhat boring horror endeavor.
Final Thought: The ending is actually the best part of this movie, and I'm not even being sarcastic. The final twist used by writer/director Nicolas Lopez is pretty clever. But what one has to wade through to get to this finale is not at all worth the time. Besides, at the end of the day, "Aftershock" is a film where the faster you realize the kind of low grade production it is, the faster you may want to turn it off (or walk out).
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