Red Sands

Red Sands is a 2009 horror movie set in Afghanistan in 2002. The film is directed by Alex Turner, whose previous effort was Dead Birds, in 2004. The movie opens with a debriefing of Jeff Keller, who mysteriously survived the slaughter of his troop during a mission; the facts gathered they had been ambushed by Al Qaeda militants who killed them all, leaving Wilcox for dead. The story unfolds two weeks prior when the crew gets their mission and is ... more

Red Sands is a 2009 horror movie set in Afghanistan in 2002. The film is directed by Alex Turner, whose previous effort was Dead Birds, in 2004. The movie opens with a debriefing of Jeff Keller, who mysteriously survived the slaughter of his troop during a mission; the facts gathered they had been ambushed by Al Qaeda militants who killed them all, leaving Wilcox for dead. The story unfolds two weeks prior when the crew gets their mission and is set out to an isolated farmhouse where a family had been slaughtered days before. Their mission is to monitor a road as a sting to catch militants using it to transfer supplies. However, after an unintended stop at a mysterious shrine, the group interpreter Wilcox believes that it was a shrine to a Djinn, a powerful deity made from a smokeless flame, which in mythology matched the legend of a genie. A bored member of their group, Chard Davies, fires a few rounds at a stone idol, causing it to shatter, but with little more in store for them,... less