Aftershock Reviews
Very, very ordinary.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 15, 2013
This Dimension pickup is a hectic, sometimes hilarious guilty pleasure that should delight genre geeks.
| May 15, 2013
Was Aftershock just an elaborate ruse by writer-producer-star Eli Roth to justify an extended vacation to Chile?
| May 13, 2013
Is no continent safe from the blood-drenched paws of filmmaker Eli Roth?
| Original Score: B- | May 10, 2013
Aftershock's best attribute is the disregard it shows for the safety of its central "heroes" who perish in brutal and generally unexpected ways.
Full Review | May 10, 2013
"Aftershock" is ultimately predictable in its litany of who lives and who dies, and doesn't try to be too ironic or self-reflexive about it.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 10, 2013
A weird mash-up of disaster, horror and dystopia genre pictures, "Aftershock" fails to make the Earth move.
| Original Score: 1/4 | May 10, 2013
The violence is quick and occasionally inventive, with little of the attenuated nastiness that characterizes so many genre pictures, and the photography ranges from brightly sun-kissed to down-and-dirty.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2013
There's so little context to the litany of ugliness - some played for laughs, some meant to shock - that it's hard to discern where the entertainment value lies in any of this.
| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 9, 2013
It's hard to imagine just who would want to sit through this movie, given the sadistic mayhem the audience is subjected to.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 9, 2013
Aftershock is incompetently made and morally muddled, but since talent, morality, and Mr. Roth have never been on speaking terms, we're not exactly surprised.
| May 9, 2013
Cross "The Hangover" with the Apocalypse and that'll give you some idea of the level of debauched mayhem that makes "Aftershock" such a shameless and titillating exercise in horror.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 9, 2013
The ending is sick enough to make it almost worth the wait. Key word: almost.
| Original Score: 2/5 | May 9, 2013
There is a great final shot ... and the Roth character does find a place with real heat. Otherwise, there's nothing groundbreaking here.
| Original Score: 1/5 | May 9, 2013
Aftershock becomes perversely predictable after a while. Just imagine what a conventional disaster movie would do, and wait for the opposite to happen.
| Original Score: C+ | May 9, 2013
The elements all seem to be there but they're not compiled in a way that creates atmosphere or dread as much as they do confusion and laughter.
| Original Score: 2.5/5.0 | May 8, 2013
Merely lurid slice-and-dice junk put through a Cuisinart.
| Original Score: 1/4 | May 8, 2013
Nicolás López's slick shocker turns into an unholy amalgam of disaster film and slasher flick.
| Original Score: 2/5 | May 7, 2013
If you're into Eli Roth-style gore, it's satisfying enough - period.
| Original Score: 3/5 | May 7, 2013
There's plenty of gore, but none of it is particularly inventive, nor does it engender any visceral or emotional reactions beyond jaded disgust.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 7, 2013