The Devil's Tomb (2009 film)
Summary
"An evil entombed for 2000 years... until now." An elite group of soldiers on a covert mission to retrieve a scientist from an underground lab encounter an ancient evil in the facility.
Details
- Release Date: 2009
- Country/Language: US, English
- Genres/Technical: Action, Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction, War
- Runtime: 1 hr 30 min
- Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Ray Winstone, Ron Perlman
- Director: Jason Connery
- Writer: Keith Kjornes
- Producer/Production Co: Ice Cold Productions, Empyreal Entertainment, Ringleader Studios
- View Trailer: (link)
Ratings
MPAA Ratings
- Rated: R (Violence, Profanity, brief nudity, Adult Content)
Tentacle Ratings
A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
- S____ (One Tentacle: Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)
Borrowing in equal parts from The Thing (1982 film), Evil Dead (1981 franchise), and Aliens (1986 film), this film puts a vaguely Lovecraftian spin on Middle-Eastern mythology/religion, with scientists unearthing a prison-tomb of the giant fallen angels / ancient alien astronauts known as "the nephilim", and freeing them to retake the Earth from mankind through body horror other standard vaguely-Lovecraftian tricks.
Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.
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Synopsis
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An elite group of soldiers on a covert mission to retrieve a scientist from an underground lab encounter an ancient evil in the facility.
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Associated Mythos Elements
- TO DO
- film: compare to Outpost (2008 franchise), The Thing (1982 film), Evil Dead (1981 franchise), and Aliens (1986 film)
- race: Deadites
