Aftershock Reviews
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
...if you think you are going to be witnessing something in the vein of your typical death and destruction flick like THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW or 2012, you will probably be horrified by the depravity on display.
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| Original Score: 7/10
We Got This Covered
Whether Nicolás López was actually trying to be funny with Aftershock I'll never know, because I ended up laughing more than I intended, but hell - intensity and pace gleefully carry the film two-thirds of the way.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Inside Horror
Recommended to fans who've been thirsty for Roth's brand of blood.
The List
There are a few plot holes and weak motivations exhibited by various characters but the sheer energy on display makes it easy enough to suspend disbelief.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Twitch
Certain to generate a slew of lesser imitators, Aftershock manages to shake free from expectations of banality, creating an extremely effective, unsettling experience.
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| Original Score: B-
HeyUGuys
Aftershock is a brutally brilliant, blood-soaked horror destined to become a genre cult classic.
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| Original Score: 4/5
FEARnet
A schizophrenic but effective little combo of Hostel and Irwin Allen.
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| Original Score: 3/5
eFilmCritic.com
Aftershock gets a little Sunshine-like ridiculous in its final act and becomes a bit too routine, but for a good hour this is a genuinely successful disaster flick with real terror, gory surprises and all the nasty fun a horror fan craves.
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| Original Score: 3/4
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
The first two-thirds are terrific, but it's marred by a gruesome finale.
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| Original Score: 6/10
ScreenCrush
by coloring within the lines it is an effective midnight movie
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| Original Score: 7/10
AV Club
Aftershock becomes perversely predictable after a while. Just imagine what a conventional disaster movie would do, and wait for the opposite to happen.
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| Original Score: C+
Schmoes Know
It's not my kind of horror flick anyway, but even for fans of gross-out gore-a-paloozas and campy humor this is a swing and a miss.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Schmoes Know
It's boring, overly gory and ridiculously executed.
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| Original Score: .5/5
HollywoodChicago.com
The elements all seem to be there but they're not compiled in a way that creates atmosphere or dread as much as they do confusion and laughter.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5.0
Movie Nation
Utterly generic, but worth seeing just to experience Eli Roth -- movie star.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Top CriticMerely lurid slice-and-dice junk put through a Cuisinart.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Nicolás López's slick shocker turns into an unholy amalgam of disaster film and slasher flick.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Slant Magazine
There's plenty of gore, but none of it is particularly inventive, nor does it engender any visceral or emotional reactions beyond jaded disgust.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Struggles to strike a tone between intense and comically cruel as it picks off its cast.
Reel Film Reviews
...it's ultimately impossible to shake the feeling that a major opportunity has been squandered here.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
