He was big and dirty and heavy looking, with a growl-y voice and giant teeth and the most maniacal grin I’d ever seen. He was played by German actor Klaus Stiglmeier with the kind of method abandon that you don’t see all that often in psycho killer characters. However, in my attempt to explain why I was disappointed in this film, a few spoiler-y elements may appear. I won’t go into what all happens next because I’m not big on direct spoilers myself, but also because if you have seen The Descent, Creep, or any other recent torture p*rn titles, you’ve pretty much seen the plot for this. And of course it is only moments after this picture is taken that everything goes horribly and yet predictably wrong. They even take some time to pose for a cute photo together in the bunker. Along the way to the bunker they get dirty, wade through water filled with some kind of creepy moving thing, meet up for a few tense moments with possibly dangerous neo-Nazis, and bond over the telling of a WWII Nazi evil scientist horror story. Their ultimate destination is a walled up Nazi bunker filled with some kind of crazy Nazi artwork. The plot basically went like this: four pretty not German people meet up with a German guy to go explore tunnels underneath Berlin. I’m not the only one who has noticed the lack of good storytelling in this particular horror sub genre. But I also read some not so good things about it. It won a bunch of awards at film festivals and was heralded as one of the best films in the genre for 2011. I’d read good things about it online while doing some initial research. Even though I don’t care much personally for torture p*rn, I did my best to like this movie. I can see how the filmmakers came up with the idea of combining the two.īut just because the setting may seem made for horror, doesn’t mean a particularly horrifying film was made from it. And the miles upon miles of dingy dark underground located underneath Berlin is a pretty promising setting, both for urban exploration AND violent gory murderdeathkill. It actually sounds pretty interesting, especially in cities built upon the ruins of earlier cities that may have been destroyed in fires or floods or earthquakes or wars or what-have-you. The premise of this film is built on the Urban Explorer (or Urbex) movement, where people explore underground tunnels, derelict buildings, and modern ruins. After experiences with Human Centipedewe all know where that kind of desire can lead you. It also included four inexplicably beautiful young people traipsing around Europe looking for an extra special good time. It had that dark modern creepy feel mixed with erratic camera work and fancy editing to it that Saw and Hostelalso had. Going in to Urban Explorers (or Urban Explorer, or Urbex: Urban Explorer, depending on which site you are looking at and not to be confused with the documentary Urban Explorers: Into the Darkness) I had a feeling it would turn out to be another in a long line of torture p*rn films. And it is the story that scares me, not the gross out effects. I don’t have a problem with gore or violence, but I do have a problem with films that use excessive amounts of both to cover up for the fact that they don’t have much of a story. I’ve probably said this before, and I’m sure I’ll get to open with this again at some point, but I don’t really like torture p*rn. Out of sheer desperation, Denis allows Armin to lead them and their unconscious guide to safety and it is at this moment that Denis realizes he has just made the biggest mistake of his life! (courtesy of IMDB) Armin, a former East German border guard suddenly appears from nowhere. ![]() When their guide has a bad fall, two of the girls in the group frantically set off to seek help while Denis, the young American, stays behind. Anxious to explore the mysterious hidden world under metropolitan Berlin, an international group of four urban explorers hires a local guide, Kris, who leads them into the maze of escape tunnels and subterranean fortifications under the city.
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