Storage 24 Reviews

Disappointing film, when I saw the trailers I thought it could've been one of those rare low budget gems......but it's just not very interesting and apart from Noel Clarke the acting is rather poor as well. Didn't think the alien creature design was the best either. It's a missed opportunity.

The only difference between this low budget chiller and a SyFy channel production is that it features the old school technique of a stuntman in a rubber monster suit rather than a dodgy CG creation. I applaud the decision and it is a pretty impressive costume but otherwise this is just your standard spam in a cabin flick. The usual group dynamic cliches are on display. Clarke has been dumped by Campbell-Hughes who is conducting an affair with his best mate O'Donoghue. You won't need to be a genius to figure out how this plotline will resolve itself.
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.

The alien monster looks pretty effective (kind of like the '82 'The Thing') and the gory deaths are done well but I didn't find myself warming to ant of the characters (except for the old man who was living in the storage unit) and therefore didn't care about their fates. I applaud the fact that a low budget British movie has attempted to produce a horror/sci-fi film that is trying to compete with an American market but the charcters are sketched too thin, the plot is predictable (it's clear which characters are going to die and which survive) and the limited budget has meant that some obvious scene are missing (where is the scene with the alien taking Campbell-Hughes?). The set-up at the end suggests a sequel that will never be made with this budget and I can't say I'm bothered. Extra brownie points for the toy dog with fireworks strapped to it. I laughed at that scene!

A well-made and somewhat original horror film, Storage 24 just never quite gripped me with its tale of people taking refuge in a storage building facility during some kind of international crisis. The film never feels as claustrophobic as its setting should suggest, and the horror just never quite connects on a visceral level. Still, Storage 24 is a well-made and modestly entertaining horror film for those looking for something new to watch.

I saw it Bad movie . You know who and what the Alien is and it look sad. look like my kids did it.
not what I was look for but I pay to see it I like to get my money but .. LOL

The movie is not very well thought out, and it suffers from bizarre tonal shifts, bad acting, lame dialogue, and a completely boring and uneventful first half. The second half has some scenes that may catch the horror/comedy fan's interest, but it's not shocking or funny enough, and the fact that you have to suffer through the monotony of the first half is pretty egregious.

How many times have you heard this one: "It a rip-off of ALIEN!"

Nice creature suit.

Noel Clarke first came to my notice playing Mickey Smith in Dr Who back in the mid noughties (around 2005). He had done quite a lot of stuff beforehand, but this introduced him to a much wider audience. I have watched his progress over the years; going into writing, producing and directing; all with some degree of success. It was on the strength of his past works that I decided to give this one a look; he came up with the original idea. So what did I think?... Well I'll tell you after this very brief summary.

A military plane crashes in London putting the capitol on high alert. It causes widespread disruption with power outages and all kinds of problems with electrical systems. A group of people find themselves trapped in a storage facility when the fail-safe system kicks in and the automatic shutters come down. They are: Charlie (Noel Clarke) who has just split up with Shelley (Antonia Campbell-Hughes); her best friend, Nikki (Laura Haddock), Charlie's best friend, Mark (Colin O'Donoghue) and Chris (Jamie Thomas King), who I think may have been going out with Nikki, but it's not made all that clear. The trouble is, there's something trapped in there with them... Something that came off that plane; something that's really not happy.

Quite well made with some nice creature effects, but I'm afraid it has little else in its favour. Yes, there are a few 'jump out of your skin' moments, but it really doesn't do anything we haven't seen before. For me, they revealed far too much of the creature far too soon; for horror to work well, it needs to be in the shadows. It's what the audience doesn't see that scares them; the imagination is a very powerful thing if manipulated correctly. The performances were all decent enough although nobody really stood out. On the plus side the running time was nice and short and the pace was kept pretty high throughout. Oh, and I have to admit, I love the ending!... Sadly not quite enough for it to get my recommendation though.

SteelMonster's verdict: NOT RECOMMENDED

My score: 5.6/10

Absolutely loaded with enough jump scares to make you fall off your seat. This scared the living daylights out of me, no film has done this in quite a while. I'm sure everybody loves a good alien flick, and Storage 24 is a brilliant choice for anyone looking for one. The special effects are fantastic, the moment you see the Alien you're jaw will drop, it doesn't look fake and cheap, it looks like something you'd see in a expensive Hollywood sci-fi, and it adds to the riveting suspense and unbearable tension that hangs in the atmosphere of this exciting sci-fi. There's also a lot of gore and, definitely not for the faint hearted. The soundtrack is haunting, and the constant heartbeat effect that echoes only makes this more claustrophobic.

Cheep but very cheerful Brit Sci Fi flick, worth a look.

We loved it, specially the small little touches & the twist s & turns ...found that the characters were believable and had just pure & simple loads of fun.

Six people become trapped in a storage facility with a deadly alien creature hot on their trail in STORAGE 24. STORAGE 24 commits high treason against Horror fans by sticking to a bland and predictable storyline that rarely strays from modern convention. Not one of its unlikeable characters ever come close to resembling a hero, as we are left to suffer through their petty drama in the hopes that each of them will be soon be dispatched. Johannes Roberts fails to inject any energy or suspense in to the picture, with the minimal amounts of action being weighed down by each dialog-heavy (but substance-free) scene. The only minor success is in the creature design, itself, whose sinewy, insect-like appearance scores a few points for originality. Otherwise, STORAGE 24 is a downright boring viewing experience that fails to elicit any form of response in the viewer.

-Carl Manes
I Like Horror Movies

Pretty much run of the mill alien flick where the people you want to get killed, get killed (apart from his ex, she deserved to go for looking like Pob).

Dreary dull DOA thriller that dulls at every turn.

This film was pretty entertaining for being a B-movie, the characters were kind of interesting, however there was one character I hate, "Mark," but I do get my wish that I like in this movie. Some of the scares are pretty good, and a few of them were annoying pointless jump-scares, and I hate those scares. The monster in this movie is well designed, of-course they had to use CGI/Practical effects for the monster, the practical effects are really well done, and the CGI well um... it doesn't make the monster look terrible. The CGI does is well done on the monster, and the good part is it's not taken seriously. The story in this movie is just the same as any other creature movie. The story goes like this, these people go into Storage 24 to check on their stuff, but then all of sudden a plane crash happens, and they're wondering what's going on, when all of sudden some kind of alien creature starts attacking these people in Storage 24, and by the way in this movie, there is a building called "Storage 24," well that sounds stupid, but overall this movie is a little cliché, and most of it is really entertaining to watch, so if you want to watch a fun creature film, this is the film for you.

Predictable alien in a storage locker flick with decent thesp work,not great but has it's inventive little moments.

A stylish monster movie with above average acting and a gnarly creature. Sure some of the real world drama between characters could have been trimmed to a minimum (sometimes it just gets in the way of the bloodletting) but when all is said and done Storage 24 is a nice little surprise.

Save yourself and do not bother watching this movie. Characters are ridiculous, the alien is silly, the setting is boring. I foolishly though this would be a great concept, ripe with possibility. Instead, we get more people crawling around in fucking air ducts.

This was terrible. Bad special effects and terrible acting. I understand it wasn't a big budget movie but this was too horrible to justify watching.