Cuba Gooding Jr., Henry Rollins, Jason London

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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Directed by: Jason Connery

Release Date: January 1, 2009

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DVD Release Date: May 26, 2009

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  • May 29, 2009
    Oh boy, where to start...! The previews looked very promising, that's the reason why I rented this in the first place. As soon as the opening credits started rolling and it said Directed by: Jason Connery I already knew this was gonna suck. And I was right. The story was badly to...( read more)ld, the cast was so "fake" and the overall feel was just all wrong. I am actually kinda mad I wasted my time and money with this, don't make the same mistake...
  • August 29, 2009
    Let me be clear. I'm giving this one star for Perlman and Winstone, and them *only*. Even Gooding, Jr. falls flat. Hardly his fault, though, seeing as the script was a gigantic mess and the plot even more so. Copious amounts of gore and "Gotcha!" moments won't save a film. *...( read more)Especially* not this one. [shudder] Avoid at all costs.
  • May 28, 2009
    Checked it out for the quality of actors in a straight to video horror. A few good make up effects but mostly..... meh.
  • October 25, 2009
    Not bad, KICK ASS CAST!
  • September 18, 2009
    Aliens meets The Thing, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. is a film that you want to watch once. It is not that it is a bad film, it is more you have seen this kind of work before, so you wonder why make another. The cast was done well, but the plot makes you want your money back for kno...( read more)wing what is going to happen next.
  • September 12, 2009
    It's a fucking tragedy that Ron Pearlman cannot get any decent work in movies anymore. It's an absolute tragedy. And the decent work that he DOES get requires him to be drowned in make up. It's just sad to me, that a man of Ron Pearlman's talent has to make these kinds of movi...( read more)es just because he isn't the most handsome man out there. Not that there's anything wrong with being in these types of movies as actors have to eat too, so I understand that. Either way, this movie wasn't that bad for a low-budget direct-to-dvd movie. I probably shouldn't judge a book by its cover as Botch (one of the more entertaining horror movies I've seen in a while) is a low-budget direct-to-dvd movie. With that said I probably enjoyed this movie due to its unintentional comedy and that's it. It's just a very campy horror movie, so nobody should expect anything revolutionary from this movie. That's all I can really say about this movie, I just "enjoyed" it for its unintentional comedy, if you want to watch this film to watch something serious then you're screwed.
  • August 18, 2009
    Really good scary and action pack all in one.
  • August 3, 2009
    Why would Cuba, Perlman, and Ray Winstone do a movie like this???
    Its so low budget its unreal! The storyline is shockingly bad and the whole film only has two locations the desert and a creepy underground bunker!
    If i was as bigger actor as Perlman or Cuba i would have put the...( read more) scriped in the bin!!!
    They must have spent all there budget paying the cast!
    The best perfomance in the film is done by Henry Rollins and he's not even in the film long.
    After a slow start to the movie i kept wanting it to get better, i wanted something to happen to shock me and show its a good film but nothing happened. I ended up by begging for the end credits to come. I was so looking forward to this movie but i would advise everyone to take a wide-birth with this movie and lets all go on with our lives like it was never even filmed.
  • July 10, 2009
    I don't know what it is that attracts me to these cheap horror movies. Each one is terrible in their own right. In this case, The Devil's Tomb is just terrible. Believe it or not, this was directed by none other than Sean Connery's son, Jason, who recently appeared in The ...( read more)Asylum's Dragonquest, adding a useless credit to his unimpressive, low-budget b-grade acting career. So I was very surprised to see that he was actually behind the camera on this seemingly big budget horror thriller with an impressive cast. Okay, so maybe Cuba Gooding Jr., Ron Perlman, Ray Winstone, and Henry Rollins don't impress you, but it's a massive step up for Connery and for the world of b-grade direct-to-dvd. Usually, all those guys would appear alone, amid a sea of new, unknown faces. Here, James Bond Jr. has brought them all together to unearth the devil himself. Did I mention they also have Taryn Manning, Bill Mosely, Zack Ward, and Jason London? Well, they do.


    Mack (Cuba) and his team, who are of course comprised of people with names like Hicks, Click, Hammer, and Nickels (Manning plays the medic and she wants people to call her "Doc"), have been chosen to lead Dr. Elissa Cardell into an archeological dig that has been appropriated by the army when they found something in there that is currently top secret. All communication has been lost with the underground base in the desert of Somalia or wherever and their mission is simply to go in and find Dr. Wesley (Perlman), who's been maintaining the base with 19 other scientists and security personnel. When they get there, they meet a dying priest with pustules all over his face and body and Moseley in a some freaky makeup, so they quickly realize that whatever happened in this base is more complex than they first imagined.


    All through out the film, we are treated to pointless flashbacks Mack has regarding a military shootout. I believe these scenes were pointless because I found they had nothing to contribute to the film whatsoever (then again, I was falling asleep during the last half). The usual happens - the members of the team begin to separate from one another and things happen to each of them, you know the kind of stuff that always happens when people split up in movies like this. Bill Mosely (remember him as Chop Top from TCM 2 and Otis from Devil's Rejects?) appears and once again acts goofy and looks creepy. And, after taking a head shot, like all good ghouls refuses to go down. Oh, and Henry Rollins is a paranoid priest. I don't know either.


    I don't even know what the total outcome of the film was, I dozed off a few times through out the end, but from what I understand Ron Perlman is possessed by the devil or a demon of some sort. The whole story wasn't complete trash, and I guess this wasn't a complete waste of 1 and 1/2 hours, but I guess I could have spent that time watching a good movie. Because The Devil's Tomb is far from that.

    Rating: terrible direct-to-dvd trash, but did you expect anything else?
  • July 6, 2009
    a lot like resident evil, but kind of sci-fi movie... it has a stupid story as most of terror movies...

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