meh i wish they showed the outside more

meh i wish they showed the outside more

awful movie! the stupid dramatic slow motions and over the top songs had me howling

awful movie! the stupid dramatic slow motions and over the top songs had me howling

Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge 2025 / 31 Nights of Horror Movies 2025

10. ESTIMATION…DECIMATION: Today’s forecast is mushroom cloudy with a 100% chance of radiation. “The Divide”

The is the story of nine strangers, forced to live in a nuclear fall out bunker, to find out what happens when people stop being polite, and start getting depraved.

Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge 2025 / 31 Nights of Horror Movies 2025

10. ESTIMATION…DECIMATION: Today’s forecast is mushroom cloudy with a 100% chance of radiation. “The Divide”

The is the story of nine strangers, forced to live in a nuclear fall out bunker, to find out what happens when people stop being polite, and start getting depraved.

On paper, The Divide should be right up my alley. It’s dark, disturbing, nihilistic, set in a single location, and has unstable antagonists — all things I search far and wide for in a horror movie and in an apocalypse movie. But it’s just not all done right.

There are some plot points that are quite redundant, a few too many characters, and the overall story gets very sloppy and caught up in its own shock value, which comes off as a distraction at times. I am never someone who uses pacing as a complaint, but I am going to make an exception for The Divide, I found it very difficult to get through the first hour in particular, and there is absolutely no reason for this movie to be as long as it is for how little it really does. On top of that, it does a terrible job of communicating the passage of time.

However, I would like to point out that the acting in this movie was surprisingly good, even great at times, and was easily the biggest bright spot. Particularly from Milo Ventimiglia and Michael Ecklund as Josh and Bobby.

On paper, The Divide should be right up my alley. It’s dark, disturbing, nihilistic, set in a single location, and has unstable antagonists — all things I search far and wide for in a horror movie and in an apocalypse movie. But it’s just not all done right.

There are some plot points that are quite redundant, a few too many characters, and the overall story gets very sloppy and caught up in its own shock value, which comes off as a distraction at times. I am never someone who uses pacing as a complaint, but I am going to make an exception for The Divide, I found it very difficult to get through the first hour in particular, and there is absolutely no reason for this movie to be as long as it is for how little it really does. On top of that, it does a terrible job of communicating the passage of time.

However, I would like to point out that the acting in this movie was surprisingly good, even great at times, and was easily the biggest bright spot. Particularly from Milo Ventimiglia and Michael Ecklund as Josh and Bobby.

It was engaging at first but it gradually becomes a cliche edgefest type of survival bunker film with stupid decisions made by the characters & forced themes like Sam being a pussy struggling with his masculinity leading to irritating moments. All the characters here are pretty tropey and would've loved to have more sensible interesting people, I did like that it gets messed up later on but the dark stuff that did happened were very generic/tiring for it's genre as we've already seen it plenty of times. It definitely could've handled it's psychological aspects better as it heavily relied on it but instead just felt out of place with it's turns especially since it's not the type of film to explain how the apocalyptic end of it's world happened. Overall atleast it's not boring but there's also nothing worth praising about either except maybe for it's edginess though it's nothing new.

It was engaging at first but it gradually becomes a cliche edgefest type of survival bunker film with stupid decisions made by the characters & forced themes like Sam being a pussy struggling with his masculinity leading to irritating moments. All the characters here are pretty tropey and would've loved to have more sensible interesting people, I did like that it gets messed up later on but the dark stuff that did happened were very generic/tiring for it's genre as we've already seen it plenty of times. It definitely could've handled it's psychological aspects better as it heavily relied on it but instead just felt out of place with it's turns especially since it's not the type of film to explain how the apocalyptic end of it's world happened. Overall atleast it's not boring but there's also nothing worth praising about either except maybe for it's edginess though it's nothing new.