Storage 24: reviews

What the critics say average 5.0 from 29 outlets

• 8.0 The GuardianJeremy Clarke An impressive if unoriginal monster is upstaged by (...) a cuddly toy dog with fireworks attached. The whole thing proves unexpectedly entertaining. Read
• 8.0 Radio TimesAlan Jones Makes the most of a simple premise and single location setting, the cast are uniformly good, and the impressive creature delivers nastily effective splatter chaos. Read
• 7.0 Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr. I surely won’t call “Storage 24” a master mold of the sub-genre, but if you’re in the mood for a quick and fun monster flick, Johannes Roberts’ low budget entry does the trick. Read
• 6.0 EmpireKim Newman One or two serious scares and some excellent creature design work make this a superior British horror sci-fi. Read
• 6.0 Total FilmStephen Kelly There’s enough gore, ideas and self-aware absurdity here to make it something a bit more enticing than merely Alien: The EastEnders Redux Read
• 6.0 VarietyCharles Gant A London self-storage facility provides an appropriately eerie location for "Storage 24," an amiably routine genre pic that combines sci-fi and horror elements. Read
• 6.0 NPRJeannette Catsoulis Derivative and dorky, Storage 24 still entertains more often than it exasperates. Read
• 6.0 Blu-ray.comBrian Orndorf Certainly an acceptable matinee distraction and an effective creature feature, at least in rare moments where the monster actually resembles a monster and not a PS3 glitch. Read
• 6.0 CineVueIvan Radford Still, Roberts gets the most out of the mildly novel premise (...) and there are some welcome stabs of humour. The pacing is fairly nippy, too, while the derivative monster design is gooey enough to keep the thrills cheap and trashy Read
• 6.0 7M PicturesKevin Carr Still, “Storage 24” completely works for what it is, and its low-budget nature keeps things grounded. Read
• 6.0 We Got This CoveredMatt Donato While sluggishly starting in a fashion horror/sci-fi fans are all too familiar with, Storage 24 takes an unexpected turn for the awesome with bouts of ooey-gooey creature horror – but still leaves us wanting a tad more. Read
• 6.0 Den of GeekSimon Brew Quite a tidy, enjoyable movie, this one. Limited in scope, but not in ambition, by working with a small budget, Storage 24 gives itself firm parameters to live within, and contents itself to do so. Read
• 6.0 Eye for FilmDavid Graham One-man movie-making industry Noel Clarke turns his hand to sci-fi horror in an enjoyably unpretentious creature feature from talented F director Johannes Roberts. Read
• 5.0 The Village VoiceNick Schager Yet the eventual appearance of creature fodder in the form of a crazy old coot who lives in the storage facility, as well as a sequel-promising closing note borrowed from innumerable predecessors, ultimately exposes Storage 24 as a monster from a familiar mother. Read
• 5.0 Black Horror MoviesMark H. Harris Like a high-end SyFy movie, Storage 24 is eminently watchable but only sporadically enjoyable. Read
• 5.0 Reel Film ReviewsDavid Nusair The persistently average atmosphere ensures that Storage 24 is, at the very least, watchable from start to finish, and yet, given the strength of the setup, it's impossible not to wish the filmmakers had aspired to something more than mediocrity. Read
• 5.0 FEARnetScott Weinberg The headache you'll get from the first half of the flick is not worth the meager thrills you'll get from the second half. Read
• 5.0 Culture CryptIan Sedensky The lighting, the music, the staging… everything has the appearance of a “competent” film with good intentions and decent production value. Yet with so many other, and better, alien/monster-on-the-loose movies out there, what is it that “Storage 24” wishes to accomplish? Read
• 4.0 The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck Essentially Alien set in a self-storage facility, the British low-budget horror flick Storage 24 doesn’t manage to rise above the limitations of its bare-bones concept. Read
• 4.0 The TelegraphTim Robey You’d give this tolerable British creature feature more credit if it didn’t pluck shot after shot from the Alien movies – there’s even a character ripped in half who turns out to be still alive. Read
• 4.0 Time OutNigel Floyd Co-scripted and co-produced by Noel Clarke, who also stars, this instead feels like the germ of an idea with stuff lifted from ‘Alien’ et al and bolted on. Read
• 4.0 WhatCultureShaun Munro Director Roberts gingerly acquits himself from a stylistic perspective, but can't do much with a duff script resembling the floor sweepings of vastly superior sci-fi flicks. Read
• 4.0 MoriaRichard Scheib Sadly to say, Storage 24 is a film where there is little of any originality, depth, anything Read
• 3.8 Sci-Fi Movie PageJames O'Ehley Storage 24 is B-movie fodder ideal for low-expectation late evening TV viewing when you can’t find anything else on the other channels, but not much else. Read
• 3.0 MTV NewsCharles Webb From a technical standpoint, it's a mixed bag while the stories and characters you're trapped with for an hour and a half offer nothing compelling Read
• 2.5 Slant MagazineEd Gonzalez But what’s ultimately chilling about Storage 24 isn’t the horror of the alien’s close-quarters assault, but the rank misogyny that more than offensively underscores the Melrose Place -grade human drama Read
• 2.5 Flick FilosopherMaryAnn Johanson But then Storage 24 had to cross the line into misogy-wah! territory (...) Oh, sure, alien monsters can hurt a guy, but that’s peanuts to what women can do. Read
• 2.0 Little White LiesMichael Leader One flawed concept, dragged out for 90 uninspired, shoddily-executed minutes. Read
• 2.0 Birmingham PostGraham Young Add a string of dumb characters you hope will be killed in five minutes and the rest of the 87-minutes literally feels like it’s 24 hours long. Read