The most intriguing factoid about “Storage 24” is that, according to Box Office Mojo, the film grossed an impossible $72 during its domestic release. The Second Worst All Time!!! You would thing family and friends of the film would at least drive the take above a hundred bucks…. Seems about right though. Not much new here to be found in “Storage 24”.
A plane crashes into the guts of London. Debris scatters among which a crate harboring a foul occupant from another world. The creature looks a lot like a man in a suit but if you suspend disbelief, you might have a better chance than I did to get swept up into a standard sci-fi horror that suffers greatly from a lack of ideas.
Semi-familiar British actor Noel Clarke is Charlie, a sad sack who just lost his girlfriend of 5 years. You may recognize Mr. Clarke from various episodes of “Dr. Who” (he played Rose’s boyfriend, Mickey) and his presence merely drives home the comparisons of “Storage 24” to a sub-par episode of the cult television show. Now all Charlie talks about is his broken relationship with Shelley (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), to the chagrin of his best friend Mark (Colin O’Donoghue) who is driving Charlie to the couple’s storage unit so that he can pick out his stuff before Shelley gets to it.
Charlie is so focused on his personal problems he pays little attention to the plane crash news. He is a one-note character but, unfortunately, he is the best fleshed out here and our only hope for a hero of any sort. At the storage unit Charlie runs into Shelley with a couple of her friends that merely serve as more people to slaughter. The unit is on lock down because of the crash and there is no way to escape the monster than seems to want nothing more than to eat the face of all humans. Gruesome stuff?
The gore is best thing that “Storage 24” has going for it. If you are a Horror Fan seeking out this sort of awful, you will not be disappointed. Each murder scene features practical effects (not much CG here) that should be found in the glossy pages of Fangoria Magazine. The film really is just a string of these moments with nothing really else to grasp onto. The dialogue is painfully simple despite the fact that there are 3 people with writing credits here(one of which is the film’s star Noel Clarke). How it took three people to come up with this fluff is beyond me.
• Bonus Features
• –Feature Commentary
• –Creature Development
• –Featurette
• –Production Design & Costume Featurette
• –Music & Sound Design Featurette
• –On Set Featurette
• –Video Blogs
• –A Day In the Life Of: Clarke & O’Donoghue
• –Scene Commentaries
• –Deleted Scenes
• –Photo Gallery