Aftershock

In this ambitious mix of disaster and horror movie, four tourists and their two Chilean guides are dancing the night away in a crowded Valparaíso nightclub when a massive earthquake hits. Wholesale death, destruction and urban anarchy ensue in a story that's loosely based on actual events experienced by the film-makers (including director Nicolás López and co-star Lorenza Izzo) during 2010. Much of the action is cleverly re-created from real CCTV footage, with co-producer, co-writer and star Eli Roth bringing all his genre knowledge to deliver catastrophe and truly startling, bloody shocks on a tight budget. The set-up is a tad overlong and leering exploitation does enter the frame during an extended rape scene, but, as a Roger Corman-style version of The Impossible, this is still effective and brutally entertaining.