Stranded (2013 film)

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Stranded

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Roger Christian
Produced by Mark Montague
Isabella Battiston
Kevin DeWalt
Written by Roger Christian
Christian Piers Betley
Starring Christian Slater
Music by Todd Bryanton
Cinematography Mark Dobrescu
Editing by Daryl Davis
Studio Gloucester Place Films
International Pictures Three
Minds Eye Entertainment
Moving Pictures Media
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Release dates
  • July 26, 2013 (2013-07-26)[1]
Running time 88 minutes
Country Canada
United Kingdom
Language English
Box office $182,474[2]

Stranded is a 2013 science fiction/horror film directed and co-written by Roger Christian starring Christian Slater, Brendan Fehr, Amy Matysio, and Michael Therriault.

Plot

Four isolated astronauts in the lunar mining base Ark suffer a meteor storm. While inspecting the damage caused by the meteors, astronaut Ava Cameron is exposed to spores contained in one of the fragments. The medical officer discovers that these spores can grow rapidly, and in the process Ava gets injured with glass contaminated with them. Shortly after that, Ava shows evident signs of pregnancy which progresses very fast, and few hours later she goes into labor.

Both Ava and the engineering officer discover that a living being is hiding in the wreckage of the base. After a series of encounters, two members of the crew are killed by the entity; Ava and Colonel Brauchman decide to abandon the base in the escape pod to survive.

Cast

Release

Stranded was released on July 26, 2013.[1] It was released on home video August 27, 2013.[3] It made $182,474 on domestic Blu-Ray sales.[2]

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 0% of 15 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating was 3/10.[4] Metacritic, which assigns a normalized score, rate it 27/100 based on 11 reviews.[5] Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times called it "decently made and acted" but too derivative of Alien.[6] Ernest Hardy of The Village Voice called it "more tedious than scary".[7] William Harrison of DVD Talk rated it 2/5 stars and called it "an unremarkable rehash of classic sci-fi movies".[8] Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film " stops at being merely seriously dull and trite, rather than tipping into train-wreck silliness."[9] Justin Chang of Variety called the film a "blandly competent, thoroughly forgettable low-budget sci-fi thriller assembled from the stray parts of countless other, better movies."[10] John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that it "offers neither originality nor thrills."[11]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Miska, Brad (2013-06-10). "Christian Slater's 'Stranded' Has A Trailer, Poster And Release Date!". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved 2013-12-16. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Stranded". The Numbers. Retrieved 2013-12-16. 
  3. ↑ Squires, John (2013-07-31). "Prepare to Get Stranded at Home with Christian Slater". Dread Central. Retrieved 2013-12-16. 
  4. ↑ "Stranded". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2013-12-16. 
  5. ↑ "Stranded". Metacritic. Retrieved 2013-12-16. 
  6. ↑ Genzlinger, Neil (2013-07-25). "Those Female Astronauts, Always Being Impregnated by Aliens". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-12-16. 
  7. ↑ Hardy, Ernest (2013-07-24). "Not Even Christian Slater Can Save Tedious Sci-fi Bomb Stranded". The Village Voice. Retrieved 2013-12-16. 
  8. ↑ Harrison, William (2013-08-27). "Stranded". DVD Talk. Retrieved 2013-12-16. 
  9. ↑ Abele, Robert (2013-07-24). "Review: 'Stranded' somewhere between good and not bad enough". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2013-12-16. 
  10. ↑ Chang, Justin (2013-07-26). "Film Review: 'Stranded'". Variety. Retrieved 2013-12-16. 
  11. ↑ DeFore, John (2013-07-26). "Stranded: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2013-12-16. 

External links

Films directed by Roger Christian
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