Catacombs
Catacombs
R | 01 June 2007 (USA)
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A young woman in Paris goes to a party in the enormous labyrinth of limestone tunnels beneath Paris. When she becomes separated from her friends, she is convinced something is chasing her through the dark tunnels.

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BlazeLime

Strong and Moving!

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Ensofter

Overrated and overhyped

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Catangro

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

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Kien Navarro

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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chow913

The catacombs of Paris, a lesser known historical marvel of how Paris' over populated cemeteries were cleaned out and 7,000,000 human skeletons were arranged in a macabre maze underground! So in 2007 when I heard it was the setting for a new horror movie I just had to see it! There's no cheap CGI, it's filmed on location.Victoria flies from Boston to Paris to visit her sister, a drugged out drunk party girl. It's the role Pink was born to play.Pink takes Victoria to a rock concert in the catacombs. And by "concert" I mean an orgy of drugs and alcohol. Predictably Victoria gets lost and chased by a goat headed monster said to haunt the catacombs. This goes on for 80 minutes and it's more boring than words can describe.At least the ending is a good one. SPOILER WARNING!!! Eventually Victoria kills one of her pursuers only to discover this was all a prank by Pink and her friends. Ha ha ha. What it's a joke is that Victoria really did kill one of the friends out of fear. As Pink is cursing her Victoria beats all of them to death! Amen. They all deserved it for the hell they put her and the audience through.Can't really think of single reason to see this film as they don't make use of the on location filming in the catacombs. Come on! 7,000,000 human skeletons and they couldn't come up with anything scary?

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FreakRenegade

He is one of those movies that you start looking for mistake, usually by making other things, and just as happened to me, then the story line, the skill of the actors, and the plot keep you glued to the screen for the whole movie. Her mild lonely and shy girl, struggling with the fear of people, this situation causes a bit 'of neurosis, he decided to accept the invitation of his sister who invited her to kick back a little, so travels to Paris. Paris and beautiful, Paris, especially for those who have not ever visited, for her and too chaotic, and the exuberant sister, tries in every way to make you feel at ease the not social sister. Accompanies her to a party a rave parties, "shock therapy," she calls it, makes known his friends, but the party is big and she does not feel at ease, she is different from her sister, fails to go also disagree with here guys kind to her, so he decided to leave the party ......... .what not easy if he wants to get out of it alive. Masterpiece This is the word I use for this film, but the film and call it trivial and too reductive, the authors Have brought on screen, daily life, the life of every day, where the normal is seen as different, where honest, quiet, respect and honor, are wrong, they are stupid, where to be normal, is "be wrong." The talented actress protagonist in this role, he manages to capture the audience from beginning to end, moment by moment, we will live her fears. Fears trivial. fears of every day, we will drag her in her decisions, decisions not hypocritical but rather honest, we'd all like to do; but hidden in the hypocrisy of a false and fake goods, we Do not ever admit. She will live with her his anxiety his anguish his anger, until the end where you will be overwhelmed by tears and anger. The film is realistic, right, it shows what the company is today: a society that does not tolerate the thought differently, those who prefer other, Why Be different and wrong, and who is different and deserves only contempt. Sorry for bad English

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jfgibson73

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.

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mario_c

It's a (very!) dark suspense thriller that uses the Catacombs of Paris as setting. Almost the entire plot is passed in the Catacombs, just the first 30 minutes are outside. I liked this film especially because of four main reasons: 1) The dark setting and the way suspense was created. 2) The camera work; especially some shots in the dark and the "flashing scenes" (at the techno parties and when the main actress is running through the catacombs). At parts the camera assumes really frantic movements following the leading actress! 3) The soundtrack: the electro music and the dark and creepy sounds. 4) The final twist! I think the film ended in an amazing way, probably the better way possible! I appreciated the first twist, when she found it all was nothing but a prank, but the way she reacted was amazing! For me it was unexpected but great!Excluding the leading actress, who did a regular job, I didn't appreciate the acting though. It definitely could have been better. Some of the FX either, but generally this film was a good surprise, especially the last minutes and the mentioned twist.

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