US teenagers are kept underground for a doomed world-building project in this cheap British teen horror flickProlific Brit producer Jonathan Willis here attempts a teen-oriented tweak of the science-gone-incorrect theme of his 2013 success The Machine. It’s about the doomed Posterity Project,a programme that sequesters the best and brightest youngsters in the US underground. While their twentysomething handlers uncover the project’s deadlier glitches, director Martin Owen applies plentiful visual gloss. A first-person shooting style necessitates intricate, and Peep prove-like eyeline-matching,and the effects work is unusually sophisticated. Yet there’s no dressing up some desperately ordinary stalk-and-slashing, and the budget undermines the world-building: ex-EastEnder Kara Tointon heads a roster of phony US accents, and while Kids in America gets repeat plays,surely nobody here ventured much beyond Amersham.
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Source: theguardian.com