****WARNING**** Though this review contains spoilers, they'll be announced before being introduced!I walked into this movie without much expectations. Its synopsis interested me somehow.I like B-movies, that's a thing, though they can be a surprise box. Nine Miles Down (2009) is a psychological thriller that will get you thinking.The plot does a good job on making you wonder everything. At first, when you get to the middle of the movie, you pretty much think that, now, everything is expected. You basically will think that you know what's going on. That's what I thought and how wrong was I!It gets convoluted. Oh, it does! I must say, at the end, I was just watching brainless, waiting for what could happen or not. I didn't care. They headed for a "at the end, it's up to you to decide whether it is A or it's B", but the job was kinda messy. Some explanations are not convincing at all, which leaves me to believe that they failed to accomplish that "what's real is up to you" kind of thing.**SPOILER ALERT - BEGINNING** It's stated that Christianson didn't get poisoned by the gas. That doesn't make sense, since she was wandering around with Jack through most of the time. Also, at the end, she said that "she had to play with his hallucinations to get out of there". Who does that? Though, if she's a demon, what's with that regret act?! Besides, how can she be so weak if she's a demon?! See, that's what I was talking about when I said the plot gets convoluted. To be honest, I think she's a demon. To me, it tends more to the demon side than to the hallucination side. **END OF SPOILERS**The horror element was kinda absent. Jump scares are cheap and I think they don't count as horror atmosphere, but they are there, a lot!It's a good movie. Just don't take it too seriously like I did, you might end up here writing brainless reviews.

I was kind of reluctant to write a review for this film. Mainly, because SOME people may indeed find it entertaining (as some here have said) But, to me personally, although I REALLY liked the premise and even, in CONCEPT, liked the basic way the story was plotted and what the underlying 'truth' eventually turned out to be, it was the way the story was handled and primarily the 'STYLE' in which it was done I felt were just not nearly as effective or satisfying as it could have been, given the excellent subject matter.I feel that if the film makers had approached the movie with more of a 'SESSION 9' type of film in mind, rather than an 'MTV' type of style, THEN I probably would have really liked it a LOT better. It started out really well with a ponderous, moody tone (very much like 'SESSION 9', one of my all time favourite Horror films) BUT... about half way into the story as they began to 'ratchet up the tension', the movie kind of lost me mainly because of it's visual and editorial style. I don't mean to say that there were a lot of mindless quick edits, or anything quite THAT awful or stupid, but still, the overall approach really leaned a lot more towards quicker edits, strobed visuals, and intercut scares. SOMETIMES that can work with a Horror film, but in my lowly and wretched opinion, NOT with this kind of premise where you clearly have the potentially Dark, Mysterious, and Biblically Supernatural possibilities that this story has. I feel that with a movie of THIS type, constructing a strong mood is far, ***FAR*** more important than flashy visuals.That is why, in my thinking, the premise and the setting to me were MUCH more strongly reminiscent of 'SESSION 9' with it's abandoned research station instead of an abandoned asylum, and the people there clearly being affected mentally (or spiritually) also as in 'SESSION 9' So, to me their visual and tonal approach with this film just didn't quite seem to be as Darkly effective as it could have been. Don't get me wrong, there WERE several nice, creepy individual scenes. The recorded sounds were quite effective. But, instead of ramping up the visuals to such a frenzied and kinetic degree, to me it seems that a more Dark and ponderous approach would have worked a LOT better. In other words, instead of what I perceived as a more superficial and kind of obvious visual approach, I think a more Dark, vague, and almost subconsciously disturbing mood would have fit this story much better.So, FWIW, I just wanted to leave my impressions of the movie here for others who may want a little insight into the approach and tone of the film, since Horror movies can be approached in a MILLION different ways and styles, and people's tastes are just as varied too.The acting and overall technical competence was good. I would say that even the writing and the direction that the story took and the eventual underlying 'truth' and outcome were just fine. I just think that the actual STYLE of the movie, if it had been approached differently, could have REALLY had a MUCH more powerful impact on the audience, and could have been far more disturbing and unsettling (thus fitting the premise better) and a LOT more effective in creating a sense of true 'Horror' for the audience.

Well, well, a movie based on the infamous "Well to Hell" hoax of 1989. The title "Nine Miles Down" is based on the English depth of the hoax well (14.5 kilometers) down. Allegedly in the Hoax a Soviet geological expedition bored a hole through the earth's crust, lowered a microphone and recorded the screams of the damned in a literal Hell (the recordings to back the hoax were matched to the torture chamber scene of Mario Bava's Italian horror film "Baron Blood"). In real life, there was the Kola Superdeep Borehole that was abandoned at a depth of eight miles. Fahrenheit 360, the temperature at which Soviet scientists gave up boring at Kola.So here I am finishing this movie on Chiller channel out of -- boredom? expiation of my sins? nah, boredom. This movie reminds me of "Event Horizon" set in the Sahara. Excruciating at times, promising at others. Watching it with commercial interruptions detracts suspense so my opinion is guarded. I must admit I have seen much, much worse. The movie is basically a two character study, from the hallucinating (maybe possessed) mind of a security officer sent to investigate a remote rig and finds a single survivor, other crew dead in the freezer (a dead giveaway something's wrong), a well where screaming voices may / may not be heard, and growing suspicion of the survivor, a woman who reminds him of his wife who committed suicide. The actress does a good job of portraying different personalities -- distraught survivor, calculating succubus -- as the plot POV demands.I watched it, I have wasted time on worse, but I don't intend to save a copy.

When it comes to rating this movie it's a huge shame IMDb doesn't have minus numbers. This is the most terrifying and horrifically poor movie I've ever come across. Now I know when people start describing films as poor and awful you may put it down to difference in taste. But if you have any clue as to what makes a good movie, you can leave all those tick boxes empty. If the US fancied changing their tactics for their detention centres, it would be to stick the prisoner into a cell with this movie on loop. I can guarantee he would spill any truth before the film even hit the half way point!!!! That or he'd personally pluck the eyeballs from it's sockets! The plot is shallow and pathetic. It's unfortunate to see that the ideas have been taken from various other horror movies such as the exorcist or the blood from the shining, and then been mixed to cook up this sin of a movie. I feel really sorry for those people who sat in a cinema and watched this movie without the option to fast-forward. I think if I hadn't have had that option I would be drinking my way down a bottle of petrol and hope that death will bring an end to the unbelievable torture this movie provides.In summary, if you want to see how not to make a movie, watch it, but be prepared with something strong to drink near you or some heavy sedatives. If you want to save 90 mins of your valuable life, hit the back button now on your browser and go find a proper movie!!!Good luck