Charlie and his best friend Mark go to the Storage 24 facility to meet Charlie’s ex (Shelley) and her best friend.  Charlie wants to know why Shelley broke up with him, but those answers are less important when Storage 24 goes under lockdown and an alien creature starts hunting them.  It is a race against time as they try to save themselves and find a way out of Storage 24.

STORAGE 24 is a tense sci-fi creature thriller.  It starts out with a nice build up before everything really goes to hell.  It is one of the better sci-fi films to use one location since CUBE.  Sci-fi horror down on a limited appeals to me because it sometimes tends to have the movie do lots of tricks to make it work and focus on story and characters. Noel Clarke may seem like an ordinary and dull man as Charlie, but I find him to be the most interesting character as I can relate to him wanting to save the woman he loved (and doesn’t love him anymore) and fight to survive.  I could care less about Mark and Shelley as you discover how they have been deceiving everyone where Nikki loves to stand up for everyone.  The end sets it up for a very apocalyptic setting and I wonder if there will ever be a sequel because Noel Clarke has crafted a wonderful sci-fi creature feature which has the best use for a toy dog in a movie (you have to see it to believe it near the climax of STORAGE 24).

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Audio Commentary with Writer/ Actor Noel Clarke and Director Johannes Roberts

Behind The Scenes featurettes (43 minutes) which offer behind-the-scenes video and interviews.  It is a decent making-of STORAGE 2 and split up into four featurettes:

CREATURE DEVELOPMENT (a good look at the design of the creature and how they lit the creature), COSTUME DESIGN, SOUND DESIGN, and THE STORAGE UNIT (It is a set using some green screen to make it look bigger).

VIDEO BLOGS with Noel Clarke, Lauren haddock, and Antonia Campbell-Hughes

DAY IN THE LIFE- a look at a day in the life of actors Noel Clarke and Colin O’Donoghue

Scene Commentaries

Six deleted scenes cut for pacing reasons and to tighten up the movie.

Photo Reel consists of photos from the production and behind-the-scenes photos

Four teasers and promos for the movie (10 minutes and 37 seconds in total)

Previews for other films from Magnolia Home Entertainment

FINAL ANALYSIS:  STORGAE 24 is an intense sci-fi thriller with the best use for a toy dog ever.

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