Fantastic!

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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.

I gave it a 6 because it had all the makings of a good horror film. It used a very unique set and setting.The actors were OK but with a good story even they would come alive. The writers never pulled it off as they could have with a bit more work and tighter editing. Of course you must have a story first to edit... The film starts down a great path with malleable talent. And there is some pretty good action happening. As you watch put yourself in these soldiers place. What would you do? Once I had any one of their experiences I would be on the path to getting the heck out of there. They were obviously forgotten even though I doubt that would happen without some contact from the base. I can recommend you see it for it's potential that was never realized. It's actually a good lesson in screen writing. They had the subject mater right but it seemed as though they either ran out of money or inexperienced screenwriters. I'd like to know if anyone knows anything about the end credits music track. There is no soundtrack cause it doesn't need one.If you know the name of the band please shoot me an e mail atswitchmeon@me.com

Red Sands is reminiscent of supernatural terrors like John Carpenter's The Thing. Without the big Hollywood bucks, this is skillful film-making with characters and setting doing the storytelling. The abandoned war-torn stone house serves as an interesting choice of backdrop for a group of US soldiers sent to monitor a strategic Afghanistan road. What they encounter is more than they can handle...While Alex Turner's cinematic action is superb, the only thing I find lacking is scale throughout the film. It just seemed too confining at times. A few grand establishing shots and culture elements would have given the film more depth and scale. Definitely worth the ticket price.

I've seen this plot twice before. American troops in the Middle East unleash ancient monster trapped by some magic, monster proceeds to kill and maim. The two previous versions were Sci-Fi's "Manticore" and "Monster Ark". This one was a little better than those other two, but it's a leper with the most fingers honor- dubious to say the least.I have to admit, this one is a little better than the other two. First, the actors were plausible as soldiers. They got the uniforms right, they got the equipment right, they got the procedures mostly right. (Some things they got wrong for dramatic effect, but it's forgivable.) The film had a good budget, but followed the rule of not revealing your monster until the end of the film. Given the monster was rendered by some very poor CGI, that's probably for the best. The director instead substituted some atmospheric chills.I'm probably giving this a better rating than it deserves, but that was only because it was so much better than those other two.