Open Grave
The story revolves around a man who wakes up in memory. If he finds himself in a hole full of corpses, the man gets panicky, but soon a strange woman takes him out of the hole. After he comes out of the hole he discovers a house and finds 5 people who do not remember anything about their identity. Among them a dumb woman, a German man and three Americans, all of them surrounded by horror to determine what happened to them, and soon the panic increases and violence increases when they find a picture that brings them all together.
1 June 1974, Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary
1 March 1985, Dunajská Streda , Czechoslovakia
16 May 1981, Wales, UK
24 December 1970, Budapest, Hungary
17 May 1986, Penarth, Wales, UK
8 September 1962, Dessau, German Democratic Republic [now Saxony-Anhalt, Federal Republic of Germany]
5 October 1950, Isaszeg, Hungary
26 December 1974
27 November 1973, Johannesburg, South Africa
January 03, 2014
Perhaps next time a little more faith in the power of visuals and performance would do the trick. Anything but another 100 minutes of dull characters sharing their inner monologue would be preferable.
January 02, 2014
Open Grave ends up merging Agatha Christie with 'The Last of Us,' with varying degrees of success.
December 30, 2013
Its climax may not be to everyone's tastes, but so relentless are the number of intriguing questions present in Open Grave's onset that it more than warrants a look.
January 08, 2014
It's a nifty what's-going-on-here? setup with loads of potential, all of which is sadly squandered.
September 07, 2014
The film doesn't break any new ground, and with a few tweaks, it could have packed a far greater punch.
January 10, 2014
Decent payoffs for those who are interested in playing along -- and willing to contend with a few slow spots in the mid-section.
July 14, 2014
Open Grave starts off well enough, but soon finds itself as lost and confused as its amnesiac characters.
January 03, 2014
Where the story leads is so disappointing-and hackneyed-it makes the entire journey feel like an enormous waste of time.
January 04, 2014
... another genre head-scratcher from López-Gallego, who last brought us 'Apollo 18' ... It won't impress the more literal-minded fans of 'World War Z' or 'The Crazies.'
January 02, 2014
The film's aura of mystery only works in the first 20 minutes or so, when it seems effortless; after that it feels like it's working very hard to keep the truth obscured, and in so doing just becomes a colorless slog.
January 12, 2014
Stock characters in a poorly plotted zombie-apocalypse storyline jabbed with a ham-fisted musical score, "Open Grave" is an elementary horror movie geared to set the genre back 30 years.
January 07, 2014
The road to the finale is littered with dead bodies and red herrings, but Open Grave is more notable for its laid-back approach to storytelling than for its plot twists.
