Storage 24 (2012)
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews Counted: 29
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 17
No consensus yet.
Average Rating: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 3
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 2.6/5
User Ratings: 2,178
Movie Info
London is in chaos. A military cargo plane has crashed leaving its highly classified contents strewn across the city. Completely unaware London is in lockdown, Charlie and Shelley, accompanied by best friends Mark and Nikki, are at a Storage 24 dividing up their possessions after a recent break-up. Suddenly, the power goes off. Trapped in a dark maze of endless corridors, a mystery predator is hunting them one by one. In a place designed to keep things in, how do you get out?
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Cast
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Noel Clarke
Charlie -
Colin O'Donoghue
Mark -
Antonia Campbell-Hughes
Shelley -
Laura Haddock
Nikki -
Jamie Thomas King
Chris -
Ned Dennehy
David -
Geoff Bell
Bob -
Alex Price
Jake -
Ruth Gemmell
Sarah -
Davie Fairbanks
Greg -
Amy Pemberton
Lucy -
Robert C. Freeman
The Creature
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All Critics (29) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (17) | DVD (1)
A London self-storage facility provides an appropriately eerie location for Storage 24, an amiably routine genre pic that combines sci-fi and horror elements.
Top CriticThis low-budget Alien knock-off set in a London self-storage facility inspires more claustrophobia than chills.
Derivative and dorky, Storage 24 still entertains more often than it exasperates.
A monster from a familiar mother.
Feels like the germ of an idea with stuff lifted from 'Alien' et al and bolted on.
completely works for what it is, and its low-budget nature keeps things grounded
The headache you'll get from the first half of the flick is not worth the meager thrills you'll get from the second.
Certainly an acceptable matinee distraction and an effective creature feature, at least in rare moments where the monster actually resembles a monster and not a PS3 glitch.
More chilling than the horror of the alien's close-quarters assault is the rank misogyny that more than offensively underscores the Melrose Place-grade human drama.
While sluggishly starting in a fashion horror/sci-fi fans are all too familiar with, Storage 24 takes an unexpected turn for the awesome with bouts of ooey-gooey creature horror - but still leaves us wanting a tad more.
B-movie fodder ideal for low-expectation late evening TV viewing.
Literally feels like it's 24 hours long.
An Open Letter to Young British Filmmakers...
The film is, as Clarke's hooded Kidulthood character might say, 'well gash, innit'.
[C]ross[es] the line into misogy-wah! territory, and conflate[s] an attack by an alien monster with an attack by mean ol' b*tches on innocent men who didn't do nothin' to deserve it.
Makes the most of a simple premise and single location setting, the cast are uniformly good, and the impressive creature delivers nastily effective splatter chaos.
With Johannes Roberts directing, this apocalyptic piece of cheaply made science fiction wends its way through an absurd plot with some energy.
Storage 24 is destined to be packed into a cardboard box and forgotten about by everyone.
Never quite scary enough to be a horror, nowhere near funny enough to be a comedy and not exciting enough to be an action movie, but stitches all three elements together into a satisfying whole.
Storage 24 is solid, entertaining but unremarkable genre fare, littered with two-dimensional characters and predictable twists.
British sci-fi thriller is a shocker (and that's just the acting)
Audience Reviews for Storage 24
Super Reviewer
When a movie of this type has a formulaic script it relies on it's set-pieces. In Roberts' hands they fall flat, the kills are particularly dull and uninventive. Most characters meet their fate by being simply pulled off screen. A "family" movie like "Jurassic Park" is far more gruesome in this respect. In an attempt to liven up the dialogue scenes which make up most of the running time, he shakes his camera and shoves it in his actors faces. A master of suspense he's not.
The uninspired script is written by the film's leading man Clarke. In the past half decade he's become something of a young British Roger Corman, churning out movies as a writer, director and actor. They usually tend towards an urban London aesthetic and I've avoided them for this reason. Perhaps he should stick to gritty dramas set on council estates as horror movies set in storage facilities don't seem to be his thing.
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- Mark: Well, you definitely scratched it.
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- Charlie: I've got nothin to loose now. So I'm gonna go fight that thing...
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