Mary Mary, Quite Contrary

Storage 24 Review

Recently, I saw a list of the lowest box office grossing horror films of 2013. Among them, and in first place with a whopping $78 made world wide (Yeah, you read that right. Though it had a limited theatrical release, it’s still pretty inexcusable) is Johannes Roberts’ Storage 24.

Now, I honestly went into this film with high hopes; I kept saying, “this is gonna be a hidden gem that everyone missed out on and I am gonna love it.” Well, I didn’t.

The creature effects look like something from Mimic and that would be awesome, if it was still 1997. I thought for sure since it was a Magnet film that we would get some of that bigger budget indie film charm, but so much was missing from Storage 24. It just feels really out of place, at least for me.

I do, however, think it has its charms. They are just outdated by about 15 years. You’re not going to care about the love story in the midst of the alien eating everyone, no matter how many cliches this film throws at you, and they throw A LOT! Anyone who knows me knows that I can sit through some BAAAD stuff and always have something nice to say, so here it goes; I like that the stuffed animal pisses off the alien. Yep, that’s all I got.

Buy this movie… and lock it in a storage unit. Perhaps in 50 years we can lie and say this came out in 1997.

This film gets a Rottin’ Roger Demarco rating of .5 storage units out of 5.

One Response to Mary Mary, Quite Contrary

  1. Mathijs Pluijmen says:

    The trailer looks interesting enough for me to still check it, althought I’m not really expecting much from it then, as in the review it says it’s full of cliches. But let’s see, I might still like it

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