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The Hello and welcome to episode number 265 of real-life ghost stories.

And to kick things off this week, I would like to say thanks to some of our newest Patreon subscribers.

I would like to thank Zia Wolf, Morgan Bennett, Joy Rudder, Natalie Tongue and Karen.

Thank you so much for subscribing to the Patreon. I love you and appreciate you every single day.

And our film review this week, our film review is The Tunnel.

The Tunnel was released in 2011. It has 5.8 out of 10 on IMDB and 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. I will say that 100% comes from seven reviews, but it has 50% in the user reviews. Right. So that's a big old disparity there and I wanted to point that out. An investigation into a government cover-up

leads to a network of abandoned train tunnels deep beneath the heart of Sydney. As a journalist

and her crew hunt for the story, it quickly becomes clear that the story is hunting them.

Now as always with these horror films, we're going to do likes and dislikes and we're going to

start with our likes. Now I love a low budget independent found footage horror film. That is an aspect of the

genre that I love because I also feel like the confines of budget means that you need to be clever

and subtle in how you create the horror. And if you've been

listening for a long time, you know that one of my book bears is lazy Hollywood horror. Lazy Hollywood

jump scares. When they put no thought into how to create an atmosphere or how to create a sense of

anxiety without just showing you the monster on screen.

For example, the use of loud music that is superfluous to the plot of the story or superfluous

to the action that's happening on stage to create a jump scare. That's lazy. I don't like it. I'm not

here for it. Give me subtlety. Give me somebody who has about a tenor to make a film and they use that tenor wisely.

And this is one of those films. Is this film going to blow your mind and change your life? No. But can you appreciate it for an independent found footage, horror film? Yes, you can. It's decent. Okay, it's definitely decent.

And I really liked the premise for this story. So essentially,

there is a water shortage in Sydney and under the city there are all these underground tunnels

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