Right now you can watch (or not watch, I don’t care) the trailer for Aftershock, a terrible movie set in Chile that follows six people in the aftermath of an earthquake. There is no release date just yet, but then again, Radius-TWC may not even take it to theaters and just throw it up on VOD and leave it at that.
I saw it in Toronto this year and it is certainly one of the worst films I’ve seen all year and, as I wrote in my review, it’s “a film I truly wish I could erase from my memory.”
Speaking of which, here’s a spoilerific snippet from my review that goes into detail about just what exactly made me hate it so much:
Once our six heroes begin to find their way they fall prey to a group of these inmates, carrying guns and ready to do a little raping. With that in mind, where anyone would find any kind of enjoyment in the latter half of the movie is beyond me. For those that don’t want spoilers you may want to skip the next three paragraphs, for the others, let me go over a scene in a little closer detail and you can help me find the entertainment in it…
First, a large chunk of concrete falls on one character, he’s trapped and coughing up blood. While a few members of the group run off to find help (which is laughable in and of itself), two girls stay behind, but when the inmates come lurking around the corner they try and hide, leaving our helpless victim alone under a rock. The leader of these baddies pours a bottle of alcohol on him and threaten to burn him alive if he doesn’t tell them where the girls went. After some coercing he actually gives away where they are!
One girl tries to escape while the other remains hidden. The one that tried to run is caught and the leader sends his boys around the corner while he rapes her. Waiting until he’s done raping the girl, the trapped man attempts to hit him with a rock to no avail, causing the inmate to set him on fire. He burns to death. The inmates come back around the corner, the leader hands the girl off to another guy and it’s at this moment the other girl (whom the bad guys didn’t even know was there) tries to run, they chase after her while one inmate stays behind and has his turn raping the girl.
This is when the group of friends that went for help return and see the man raping the girl. Before intervening, they first consider running away, but ultimately think better of it. One man attacks and chops the rapist down with an ax. The day has been saved! But wait, the inmates return and as the girl that has now been raped twice is running away, she’s shot in the back and dies. Yes, she is raped, watches a man burn to death, is raped, saved and then shot in the back. As Maximus would say, “Are you not entertained?!?!”
Other than that… check out the trailer directly below. I didn’t watch it but I’m sure it will make it look better than it actually is. You can read my full review here.
