Very disappointed :(

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Scarlett (Perdita Weeks) is a female Indian Jones complete with a book of information given to her by her father. She comes across a new piece of evidence which is a riddle for the location of the Philosopher's Stone, ignoring the fact Harry Potter found it. Scarlett gathers a team and illegally enters the catacombs deep under Paris.This is another hand held genre. It was confusing as to who was filming as the camera is sometimes in two different rooms. In this film, the sound is bad, the lighting is low, the camera is in constant shaking mode, heads are cut off making the film nearly unwatchable.The title is a clue they use to navigate through the caves.

Saw this on cable several years ago (I'd never heard of it) and liked it enough to buy it. Re-watched it last night and decided to review it. Really good for what it is: a modestly-budgeted B-grade horror flick in an exotic location.Best reason to watch this movie: The catacombs. Seeing all those real skulls and bones is fantastically creepy. They've got to crawl through little tunnels clogged with human bones, digging through them to make space. Real skulls are embedded in the walls in patterns as decoration made by people hundreds of years ago. Knowing that they were the remains of dead people rather than props gave me an eerie feeling.Another reason to watch: If you've ever read "Dante's Inferno", you'll find plenty of references and symbolism to pick through. I had fun doing that. It made me want to learn a bit about alchemy too.Premise: A Lara Croft-type hires / convinces / drags three climbers, a cameraman, and her ex-boyfriend down into a secret passage in the Parisian catacombs to find the Philosopher's Stone. Things get supernatural really fast and everybody on the trip has some personal demon or sin they have to face, which often turns literal and actually kills some of them. But that's what happens when you literally go to Hell.The shaky cam footage gets tiring. There's an actual reason to film the movie this way: the characters illegally enter the catacombs on an exploration mission. (Plus, imagine trying to fit a camera crew down there.) Nevertheless, I wished they'd hold still for a minute.The characters? Scarlett has 4 PhDs, speaks 6 languages fluently, and has a black belt... and is under 30. Sure. Her ex-boyfriend can translate centuries-old Aramaic off of dimly-lit stone tablets and fixes church clocks in his spare time. Whatever. These revelations might have been a cue to not take this movie completely seriously. The cameraman and the three climbers didn't get much backstory, but what happens down in the cave gives you enough clues to guess about Papillon's and Benji's.The horror? It started out as creepy and tense, but once they get deeper into Hell, things went nuts. Then there were more jump scares, and one scene-I'll just say it involves fire-put it over the top for me and killed the creepy vibe that the first part of the movie had. By then, things are moving so fast, that you can't spend that much time on it and have to focus on the next horrible thing that's happening. Even after this tone-shift, I was still enjoying the movie.The puzzles and traps? There were some cool ones. Lots of collapsing ceilings and puzzle clues that relied on some sort of alchemy mumbo-jumbo. The archeologist usually solves them pretty quickly, but there are consequences the few times she doesn't. The end has some interesting symbolism to it, and might be a little corny, but it's not out of place given everything that just happened.So it's not "The Descent" or "Paranormal Activity" but I did find it entertaining enough to watch multiple times. I'll brush up on my Dante, check out some alchemy lore and watch it again.Film recommendation: "Inferno" (1980) by Dario Argento. It's not an adventure movie and the story makes less sense, but it has killer atmosphere. If you want more truly creepy stuff even better the beginning of AASB, check it out.

May be my favorite found footage horror film! A must see !

I believe this was one of the last, amazing, true horror movies to come out in a long time to come. I was amazed. If you have ever read anything about Nicolas Flamel, Alchemy, The Devine Comedy of Dante's Inferno or any history book about the Egyptian times and the birth of the identification of planets-you are SERIOUSLY in for a treat. This movie was drop-dead AMAZINGLY accurate and the more the director took it as far as he did the more I was terrified. Think about it; You're watching a horror movie and all of the facts in the movie are true and from real recorded WORLD history. Just about every single turn of events was at a pivotal moment with a real, historically accurate twist. Amazing acting, amazing direction-NOT a "found footage" movie because the footage was never lost in the first place and I seriously can never get enough. Definitely one of those movies you have to watch something happy after because you have to try to go to bed and actually sleep. I always recommend this movie and always will. THANK YOU for making a movie worth comparing all other horror movies to for the rest of my entire existence. THIS is REAL horror people!