Patience Watson
One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.
Roxie
The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
Billy Ollie
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
movieswithgreg
OK, here's the deal. The only way you're going to think this is a good movie is if you're a fanboy of the so-called horror genre, because only fanboys will overlook all the obvious shortcomings of this low-budget, simplistic, psycho-with-no-name killer, cat and mouse game in the dank, initially foreboding, but ultimately monotonous tunnels of Berlin, where the usual pretty boys and pretty girls make an underground mountain of illogical, counter-intuitive, anti-survival decisions that lead to conclusions you no longer care much about, which in my case, stopped about ten minutes after they encountered their coveralled boogeyman with his inexplicable glaring and exaggerated gesturing. The violence is jumbled through cheat-cut closeups more commonly associated with high school production values, albeit a bit slicker. To call this a "classic," or "best of anything," is to make a sad admission about how uninteresting and unvaried that the modern whore-or genre really is. This is just another also-rans unimpressive, un-psychological chapter in the apocrypha of male-virgin eye candy that frighten only the most unsophisticated of shut-in teens.
Brian X Suhr
First of all, having a majority of this movie be in German and NOT subtitling it is very stupid. It's like wanting to make it very artistic but failing miserably. Second, this was waaaay too long. The set up for it and the two opening sequences introducing the four "explorers" was pointless and kind of made me hate them. Third, the whole Nazi subplot seemed irrelevant except for the fact that Nazis are cool and Nazi images in a film, even more cool. (see Frontiers, Dead Snow, Blood Creek) Maybe this did all play into the movie, but seeing as how the antagonist spoke German and their was no subtitles, I only have to guess. Fourth, isn't torture porn a little blasé? I mean hasn't the torture by a psychopath thing been done to death? I've seen countless movies do it better and honestly, if you're going to do the whole torture porn thing, at least show a little more gore and make it worth it. Having only really two, possibly three scenes of semi-gore seems a waste and when you have nothing else going in a film but gore, you should at least play it up. Having said all that, I watched half of this movie and then forwarded to key scenes til the end. I got bored quickly and knowing that nothing was really going to be resolved by the end, decided to just skip to that. SPOILER One cool idea was the salt on the skinned guy. The only piece of creativity in the whole movie. Decent, but didn't make suffering through the long beginning worth it.
trashgang
German horror do normally means splatter but this here isn't your typical German splatter, in fact, it is a really slow builder. It takes a while before the horror comes in but that didn't bother me because you know something will go wrong only when, that's the question.When things go wrong it really goes wrong and it even isn't for the squeamish. What I did like was the fact that there weren't any heroes. You just couldn't predict who was going to survive. Only the end was a bit strange, clearly an open end but suddenly this flick was over. If you like flicks taking place in the dark with a twist then this is for you but don't expect a gore galore. Gore 2,5/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 3/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5
Jason VanMason
If all you want is a spooky movie with monsters and atmospheric settings, this is as good as any. If you expect anything like a logical story, well, maybe not so good. The film depends on a common misconception; every big city has endless tunnels beneath and they are all connected as well as lost and forgotten. And this is nonsense. Unlike Paris which has quarries beneath it, most cities do not have anything like a connected maze of tunnels. And most tunnels, even abandoned subway stations, are used for something and are well documented.This film, like others of its type, substitutes basements or even abandoned factories with their windows covered for underground areas. One look at the brickwork of these phony tunnels is enough to reveal the sets are ordinary locations dressed as spooky tunnels. The huge size of many of the locations should tip off the viewer that they are seeing nothing more mysterious than an old warehouse.And our explorers are totally unprepared for their adventure. The have no hardhats, no first aid kit, no proper clothing, nothing but a few dinky flashlights. If not for their "guide" somehow toting 5 sets of rubber waders in his tiny backpack they would never have made it through a flooded tunnel. We are further told that scrawny teens can climb 50 feet, hand over hand, on a thin rope. And thats up and down. Small wonder the actual climbing is not shown! And of course the abandoned tunnels are full of improbable characters who survive on.....what....rats? If you like to suspend your disbelief totally, you will probably enjoy this film. But if, like me, obvious plot holes spoil the experience you may wish you watched something else.
