Storage 24

Romantic melodrama and a rampaging alien prove uncomfortable bedfellows in Storage 24, a tense sci-fi shocker that, while lean, would have benefitted greatly from a little more mean. Working from the simple concept of a small group trapped in a confined space with an omnivorous extraterrestrial, screenwriters Noel Clarke, Davie Fairbanks (both of whom also star), Marc Small and Johannes Roberts do precious little to improve on the formula perfected by Ridley Scott back in 1979. At the same time, director Roberts lazily attempts to achieve a claustrophobic atmosphere by shooting the film almost entirely in close-ups -- a severely limiting technique that makes <...