ridiculous rating

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Why wouldn't she stop screaming? "It's a prank"? Worse premise than nightmare on elm street's waking from a dream in a dream in a dream...This was on a movie channel while I was doing other things - definitely 'walk-out' material if I'd gone to a theater.I don't understand why a short and succinct review has to be 10 lines.Why wouldn't she stop screaming? "It's a prank"? Worse premise than nightmare on elm street's waking from a dream in a dream in a dream...This was on a movie channel while I was doing other things - definitely 'walk-out' material if I'd gone to a theater.I don't understand why a short and succinct review has to be 10 lines.

Well, from the get go of this picture you can imagine almost everything that's gonna happen. If you are a daily movie watcher, you'll probably think that in the end, it was all Victoria's imagination and sick mind-- but hey, that's not what happens this time! Pink's character is extremely annoying, I was praying for her to die in the first scenes."Catacombs" is a strange film that was going very well until it's main character got lost in the cave; after that, it became a little boring and tiring to watch. I expected more story and less cat and mouse race. But, I have to admit this story is pretty original and runs away from most clichés, which is admirable for such low-budget production. The ending is ridiculous in my point of view, but it depends on what you like in a movie. Thought being entertaining at most times, doesn't deserve more than five stars.

Catacombs is about as basic as scary movies get. It's a pretty girl in the dark with a flashlight trying to get away from a guy in a goat mask. Occasionally, these filmmakers work way too hard to try and convince the audience (and probably themselves) that they're doing something more sophisticated and they throw a nihilistic twist in at the end. None of that disguises the fact that this entire script could have been written on the back of a cocktail napkin.Victoria (Shannyn Sossamon) is the quiet repressed sister who gets invited to Paris by her free spirited sibling Carolyn (Pink). Yeah, the pop singer Pink is in this thing. She's listed in the credits under her real name, so I wasn't expecting to see her. When she popped up on screen, I disgustedly said out loud "Oh, for God's sake". Not because I expected her to be terrible in the film, which she sort of is, but because I look more like Shannyn Sossamon's sister than Pink does. David Spade would have been more convincing in the role. Sossamon is a slim, dark, angular beauty. Pink looks like a very pretty bulldog that was dunked in peroxide. Imagine watching The Godfather and instead of Sonny Corleone looking like James Caan, he looked like Charles Nelson Reilly. That's the effect Pink has in this movie.Anyway, Carolyn introduces Victoria to her Eurotrash friends and then takes her to an illegal dance party in the catacombs under the streets of Paris. Victoria gets told the story of a killer in a goat mask who lives in the catacombs, winds up separated from everyone and unsurprisingly winds up getting chased through the catacombs by the goat mask killer. She gets away from him, literally wanders around in the dark for about a half hour where nothing happens and as she's just about to escape from the catacombs, the big nihilistic twist kicks in. I've seen worse twist endings, but that doesn't mean this one is any good.There are parts of Catacombs that are really bad, where every visual cliché from every heavy metal music video or horror movie of the last 10 years gets thrown onto the screen. There are other parts, though, that are actually affecting. This film is a bit like those "ghost hunter" shows you find on basic cable. It's silly and contrived and your first instinct is to snicker at it, but the rough simplicity of a frightened person alone in the dark, wondering what's going to happen next, can still get to you.The story begins and ends with bursts of high energy, but there's a whole lot of nothing in between. None of the characters rise above the generic. You do get to see some random naked boobs, but not from the titular stars of this production. And what violence there is, is more suggested than graphic.Catacombs is a horror movie for Amish teenagers. If you've never seen a horror movie before, you might find it exciting. If you're at all familiar with the genre, you'll recognize this as another sub-mediocre entry. I'd probably have harsher things to say about this movie, except I watched Rob Zombie's Halloween II earlier this week. In contrast with that shambling monstrosity, I'm forced to recognize a certain level of competence in this film. So, if you ever watch a horror movie so awful it makes you feel like the director has propped open your mouth and urinated down your throat, you might get some enjoyment out of watching Catacombs. Unless your aesthetic standards have been pushed down that low, you're probably better off avoiding it.

This wasn't a bad movie. It was a bit cheesy and clichéd, but the main issue was that there wasn't enough ideas to fill a 90 minute feature length movie.Shannyn Sossamon plays a girl who gets invited to Paris by her sister on short notice. She decides to take the trip, which is mainly designed to help her loosen up. Her sister takes her to a party that is being held illegally in the catacombs beneath Paris.The kids she goes out with make sure to tell her about a legend that says a disturbed killer haunts the catacombs. Then they hit the party, which gets broken up by the cops. Shannyn gets separated from her crew, and eventually the minotaur killer finds her and chases her around. She bumps into another lost guy, but he speaks French so they can't help each other. He gets hurt, and she abandons him.Finally, it looks like Shannyn is trapped by the killer. She manages to strike him down, but it is then revealed that it was one of her sister's friends in a costume. They were just playing a prank on her. Her sister, played by Pink, starts berating her for being weak and childish, to which Shannyn responds by killing everyone in the group. She walks out of the tunnels and gets in a cab, presumably to go home.I liked how they had her character go off at the end, but the rest of the movie wasn't worth sitting through. The catacombs were interesting to look at for the first few minutes, but they all looked the same after a while. The story spent a lot of time following Shannyn around as she is being chased and trying to find her way out. There just wasn't much going on. I'll give it a five for being mildly entertaining in spots, but it felt like it was mostly filler.