A weird mash-up of disaster, horror and dystopia genre pictures, “Aftershock” fails to make the Earth move.
“Hostel” director Eli Roth amusingly plays a nerdy tourist in Chile, where he goes clubbing with a couple of friends (Ariel Levy, Nicolás Martinez). After more than 30 tedious minutes of setup during which none of the characters develops much, the trio and their dates are dancing in a club when an earthquake hits.
The rest of the movie consists of the survivors suffering various kinds of violence from both man and nature as they flee roaming packs of thugs in the now-lawless city. None of the gore has the slightest meaning, not even on a shallow “Friday the 13th” level: Dramatically, the movie is bloodless.