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The Divide

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A devastating nuclear attack thrusts nine strangers together in the bunker-like basement of their New York apartment building. The survivors are trapped underground with no hope of rescue, and only horror on the other side of the door. As supplies dwindle and tempers flare, they become increasingly unhinged by the close quarters and hopelessness of their situation, and turn on one another. Still, one survivor holds on to a thin chance for escape, even though salvation is unlikely.
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Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle 04/09/2015
1/4
Gens' film, while a far darker vision of the day the world ends, is more sexually sordid than satisfying. Save the humans? Why bother? Go to Full Review Nigel Floyd Time Out 04/09/2015
2/5
Its nihilism feels cynical rather than authentically bleak, and the increasingly histrionic scenes start to resemble an indulgent actors' workshop that has spun out of control. Go to Full Review Derek Malcolm London Evening Standard 04/20/2012
1/5
Michael Biehn and Rosanna Arquette are in the cast but not helped by a cursory screenplay. Go to Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review 12/04/2022
2/4
The film’s muddled metaphors suggest the filmmakers have resolved to explore the situation merely to test the limits of revulsion, leaving the audience with an expected sense of doom, but not in a way that fills us with admiration Go to Full Review Kyle Anderson Battleship Pretension 03/22/2021
While not an easy movie to watch, it is a movie that deserves to be seen, if for no other reason than so that all of us can decide whether or not the lucky ones died in the blast. Go to Full Review Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens 11/26/2019
The one valuable lesson gleaned from The Divide? We learn a multitude of new uses for duct tape! However, one of them should be to seal the film canisters of The Divide shut to save you from seeing it. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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mason h @RT64732593 Nov 2 Interesting and grisly plot, and a lot of purposely unlikable characters. Very interesting watch as a lot happens. See more Vengie P @RT40126997 Oct 6 Whilst the cinematography and even the sound directorship is great, the story line and script is atrociously illogical. There is no sense. The characters were written so poorly that they chose all the worst decisions in the entirety of the film. See more Angie R @RT87511520 Aug 31 The Divide was by far one of the worst, disgusting movies I've ever seen. I should have turned it off way before the sexual violence started; assuming the two men would get what they deserved way before the end of the movie. I feel that many, many times throughout the movie the other survivors had many opportunities to come up against the two "warped and demented" men and stopped them. Totally disturbing and I pray it gets out of my mind but I don't believe it will because of the horrific plot. The movie didn't start out too bad but went into a totally different direction then I would ever have thought. Also, suprised Arquette would take on a role such as this. DON"T WATCH!!!! See more Mon A @RT85458170 06/29/2025 I truly regret wasting my time watching this movie. The plot was quite simplistic,it had too many lose ends, completely illogical at times and a lot of sexual violence and gruesome scenes that contradicted the next scenes. It just lacked profundity, credibility, suspense etc. I get the general idea of humanity losing itself but that wasnt portrayed in the movie. I was left wondering what kind of psychos would write such a completely nonsensical script. Eron Shaaen and Karl Mueller apparently. See more bidadari k @RT40219274 05/22/2025 Garbage movie. Believe me this the worst movie i’ve ever seen See more michael p @Labspeciman 02/24/2025 About a group of people trapped in a building basement after a nuclear war. You get to watch the people as the descend into madness. Its not very clever. No rainbow at the end. Don't watch it with the kids. Actually don't watch it. See more Read all reviews
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Xavier Gens

Director

Michael Biehn

Mickey

Lauren German

Eva

Milo Ventimiglia

Josh

Rosanna Arquette

Marilyn

Courtney B. Vance

Delvin

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SynopsisA devastating nuclear attack thrusts nine strangers together in the bunker-like basement of their New York apartment building. The survivors are trapped underground with no hope of rescue, and only horror on the other side of the door. As supplies dwindle and tempers flare, they become increasingly unhinged by the close quarters and hopelessness of their situation, and turn on one another. Still, one survivor holds on to a thin chance for escape, even though salvation is unlikely.
Director
Xavier Gens
Producer
Ross M. Dinerstein, Nathaniel Rollo, Juliette Hagopian, Darryn Welch
Screenwriter
Karl Mueller, Eron Sheean
Distributor
Anchor Bay
Production Co
Instinctive Film
Rating
R (Pervasive Language|Disturbing Strong Violence|Sexuality)
Genre
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 13, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 18, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$19.2K
Runtime
1h 50m
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