Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Leofwine_draca Apparently a remake of an Islamic horror film, RED SANDS turns out to be an entirely defunct horror yarn and indistinguishable from many, many others over the years. The idea of a squad of soldiers stumbling upon a nameless and ancient evil has been explored in everything from THE KEEP to OUTPOST to DEATHWATCH, along with R-POINT, THE GUARD POST and many Hollywood B-movies besides.I don't mind familiar plots in films but they do have their work cut out in terms of delivering decent entertainment, i.e. making up for the lack of originality by offering good scripting and direction. RED SANDS doesn't. The writing is clichéd, the direction is sub-par and the movie resorts to cheesy CGI effects time and again.I admire the efforts of the unknown cast (and it is really unknown when SPIDERMAN's J. K. Simmons is the only familiar face they could afford) but they're on a hiding to nothing with this film, where the paucity of imagination leaves it an entirely wishy-washy and sub-standard affair.

m-pichot Red Sands is a (cheap) remake of a French movie called Djinns. Both remind me of The R Point (without reaching it) : horror/psycho/thriller war moviesIf you have not watched Djinns, then you will like Red Sands or find it OK (that's if you like this sort of horror/psycho/thriller war movies). It is tense, and the scenery makes it tense too. So if you like Red Sands, i strongly recommend you watch Djinns (taking place in the 60's during Algeria War)But if you have watched Djinns fist (like me), you will be disappointed by Red Sands : it is too cheap, the plot is not as developed, not as tense as in Djinns, well in 3 words : not as good.

sol ***SPOILERS*** We get the story straight from the horse's mouth in the only survivor of the US Army's combat unit Spc. Jeff Keller, Shane West, as he's being debriefed by his battalion commanding officer Lt. Col. Arson, J.K Simmons, Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan. The story Keller tells is so fantastic that it's suspected by Lt. Col. Simmons and those in the debriefing room that he had lost his mind in being out in the brutal Afghan sun, after making his way back to civilization, for the last three days.Sent out in the Afghan desert to heck out a secret El-Qeada and Taliban supply route Spc.Keller and a squad of US Army troopers lead my Sgt. Marcus Houston, Leonard Roberts, somehow got themselves lost and had their radio communication system damaged. It's later the we and the Army Rangers realize that this was the work of a Genie, or Dijnni in Arabic, that was released when one of the troops Chaud Davies, Brendan Miller,took target practice at an ancient monument smashing it to pieces. This in fact released the Genie that was to eventually turn the rangers on each other until they all did themselves in.The film "Red Sands" moves at a snails pace with the troopers slowly going wacko as they, without communication to the outside world, start to realize that they've got themselves lost in the desert. It's when they find this Afghan woman, Marcedes Manson, hidden inside a deserted house that things really start to pick up in the movie.***MAJOR SPOILER*** As it turns out the Afghan woman is the evil spirit, or Dijnni, that Cpl. Davies released when he destroyed the ancient monument and she, or it, would soon turns the screws on the unsuspecting US soldiers. It takes a while for the soldiers to realize what's happening but by the time they do it will be too late for them. The genie or Dijnni has been let out of the bottle and they only way it will get back inside is when all those responsible in letting it out are dead! And that by the way includes Spc.Keller who as we see when the movie ends is not who we, as well as Lt. Col. Simmons, think who he is!

jdoane2 I decided to watch this based on the few good reviews posted here and all I can say is thanks for tricking me out of two hours of my life! If you've been watching horror movies since the 80's as I have I don't see how you can possibly enjoy this movie.A group of dysfunctional soldiers manages to release a Djinn by shooting a statue.... maybe?! The movie never bothers to show you where the thing came from. The Djinn is a shape-shifter which manages to isolate and destroy each member of the team one by one in a thoroughly gruesome way.... is what I'd like to say! What actually happens is the thing kills one guy! And we don't even get to see it happen he just shows up dead. After that the team starts to fall apart and they all kill each other. The Djinn may or may not have played a part in this it's not really made clear. Mostly the Djinn spends the whole movie as an Arabic woman crouched in the corner... how terrifying! If this is how Djinn kill people we may as well free them all, we manage to kill ourselves ten times faster than they ever could.When we finally see "the monster" it's just more of the computer generated garbage you see in all low budget horror flicks nowadays.This movie is so bad it's on the level of being a SciFi original.