The Lair(2022)
2022 · Neil Marshall · 93 min
Royal Air Force pilot Lt. Kate Sinclair is on her final flight mission when her jet is shot down over one of the most dangerous rebel strongholds in Afghanistan. She finds refuge in an abandoned underground bunker where deadly man-made creatures known as Ravagers — half-human, half-alien, and hungry for human flesh — are awakened.
Horror · Action
5.6327 votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
4/5
Gore
1/5
Stays with you
How scary is The Lair?
Watching this feels more like an action shoot-out than a scary movie, with soldiers blasting monsters instead of anyone dreading what's around the corner. The pace is quick and loud, jumping between gunfights and creature attacks rather than building slow tension. Blood and creature gore show up often, but it's played for B-movie thrills rather than genuine horror. This is a good pick if you want dumb fun with monsters and explosions, not something that will actually scare or unsettle you.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, The Lair rates psychological 1/5, visceral 4/5, gore 4/5, lingering effect 1/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 1 of 5
- Visceral: 4 of 5
- Gore: 4 of 5
- Lingering: 1 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 65 of 100 — leans Jump scares
Supernatural vs Real-world: 30 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 10 of 100 — leans Fun-scary
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A tense crash-and-escape opening settles into exploration before ramping into a long, action-heavy creature-filled back half that stays loud almost to the end.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3.
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