The Divide

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The Divide

R

2012

1h 50m

Sci-Fi

Mystery & Thriller

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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

Gens' film, while a far darker vision of the day the world ends, is more sexually sordid than satisfying. Save the humans? Why bother?

Rated: 1/4

Apr 9, 2015

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Nigel Floyd

Time Out

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.

Rated: 2/5

Apr 9, 2015

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Derek Malcolm

London Evening Standard

Michael Biehn and Rosanna Arquette are in the cast but not helped by a cursory screenplay.

Rated: 1/5

Apr 20, 2012

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

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

Rated: 2/4

Dec 4, 2022

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Kyle Anderson

Battleship Pretension

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.

Mar 22, 2021

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Debbie Lynn Elias

Behind The Lens

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.

Nov 26, 2019

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Vengie P

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.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

10/06/25

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Angie R

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!!!!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

08/31/25

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Mon A

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.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/29/25

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bidadari k

Garbage movie. Believe me this the worst movie i’ve ever seen

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

05/22/25

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michael p

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.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/24/25

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Lloyd S

Total garbage. Don't waste your time watching this nonsense.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/15/25

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Synopsis

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.

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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