A couple of things from Sci-Fi Wire. First, more from your friend and mine, Emmanuelle Vaugier, fast becoming the Best. Hollywood. Pitchman. Ever:
“So slowly things start to develop. Animals and things are dying, and people are disappearing, and all of a sudden we see the creature attack. We start running away from the creature and try to figure out how to kill it and how to get everyone out of there safe. Unfortunately, not many make it out, as is usually the case with these films.”
And some words on Doom apparently the thinking-man’s movie of the season:
In the video game Doom, creatures from a literal hell invade our dimension. But for the movie version of the game, hell is more a state of mind than an actual place, the film’s creators told SCI FI Wire….
In the Doom movie, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson plays Sarge, whose Rapid Response Tactical Squad heads to a science lab on Mars where an experiment has gone horribly wrong and demons are killing people. “The movie [takes] a more cerebral approach,” Hollenshead said….
I dunno. Unearthed might be okay. Vaugier might not be as dumb as she sounds in print. And Doom might not just be the same stupid shoot-’em-up crap we’ve seen time and time again. Stranger things have been known to happen.