K-SCORE: 30
Director: Kaare Andrews
Spoiler Level: Moderate
Altitude - a supernatural college coed plane-themed horror film. It’s a genre.
Graham predicted the twist about seven minutes in. All of the dialogue is expositional and poorly delivered. The filmmakers did little to no research on airplanes, which is a problem for a film that takes place entirely in an airplane. But you know, I didn’t watch it looking for snappy dialogue or contemplative aeronautical catastrophe story-lines.
I watched it because the five young people had to die off in the Cabin in the Woods order: the slut, the fool, the athlete, the scholar, and finally the virgin. My question - and why I wanted to see it - was how do they have some characters live and other die and not have the plane just crash and kill them all? As expected, the absurd answers they came up with for this question are hysterical. We had a lot of fun watching it.
The best character, who the writer named Correy and we named Emo Guitar, at one point ties a rope to a seat and jumps out to try to fix a problem with the tail fin by kicking it. Against all odds and the laws of physics, this works, but then the athlete kills him. Deeply tragic and really great at once.
The rest of the movie is some paranormal altitude themed nonsense that you really won’t enjoy if you’re watching the film alone and sober.