Urban Explorer (2011)

Best movie ever!

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Saw this on a DVD in 2012. Plot- a group of people from different countries take an illegal tour to explore Hitlers special bunker through a labyrinth of tunnels, sewers and catacombs. The movie offers up a good amount of intensity and creepy atmosphere. The underground tunnels were claustrophobic and atmospheric. There was sufficient tension but the gore might put off some. The effects were well done. The pacing was good n the film never dragged. The direction, editing n cinematography were noteworthy. The villain is very intimidating. His glee at playing the hunter is so fierce that it wud disturb some viewers. His face is the most terrifying thing about the film. I wud rather take my chances n go alone than follow a creepy guy with that face. Klaus Stiglmeier, the guy who played the villain was more creepy than the guy from Wolf creek. My only crib is that the two sub plots, 1)The encounter with the nasty chaps n their vicious dog n 2)the story about Hitler's desire to build an army of super soldiers were never explored. There is something sinister about the neo Nazis n Hitler. Nevertheless it is a decent thriller. Fans of Creep - 2004, Wolf Creek, Descent n Stag nite will definitely enjoy this.

Not much to add to the title - that's just the way it is. The enactment/staging of the movie is - in my opinion - kinda great, good actors, nice lighting, o.k. camera handling. But now the missing 6 stars - this is partly based on my taste and partly the director's fault.First of all, I'm not a fan of horror, "torture-porn", gore and such at all, I watched this movie rather "accidentally". Well, there are great horror movies, this one is set in my home town and I'm interested in that exploring stuff, so I gave it a try. Unfortunately, this movie degrades itself to a C-title due to the use of these worn-out, standardized, boring, predictable default clichés like: Why do these people act so stupid? Why don't they kill him securely as they have the chance? Why are they so incredibly unskillful and overwhelmed in every situation? -.- It's a pain in the *** watching this over and over again. Can't directors come up with good horror ideas that are NOT based on these defaults?The second major problem is the actual lack of a story. There are basic approaches, but nothing really fits. This might be typical for the genre - well, this is mainly the reason I don't like these movies. But if there is a psychotic killer, a good movie can skillfully show why and with what reason he does this stuff. This is hardly explained here, maybe some traumatizing-history-psycho-stuff, but nothing justifying such a behavior. The end scenes let the viewer wait for some kind of twist, but nothing happens. The psycho is the almighty bad boy and prepared for everything, so not even 5 or more people stand a chance against him. Of course. And let me tell you: Berlin underground stations are not THAT empty at night, for sure not.The logical consequence - if the exploration leader survives, which is not exactly shown - would be a special forces operation into the villain's underground base (I'd like to see that as an epilogue ^^). But this is left open like every bit of... reason in this movie. Kinda sad because the acting, lighting and stuff, like mentioned, is really well done.Let me add that the lack of subtitles in the version I watched was more positive than negative for me as I speak English and German fluently. This gives the movie a nice realistic touch.

A group of people take in an underground tour of the tunnels beneath Berlin. All is going relatively well until their fairly enigmatic guide suffers an unfortunate accident. If being lost in these deep, dark, endless maze of tunnels weren't bad enough, they also happen upon a deranged nut-case/former border guard.I thought I was in for yet another low-budget, badly acted horror flick of little real value, but as the movie wore on, I found, much to my surprise, it to be fairly well done. Highly derivative, but well done nonetheless. I actually found myself caring if these characters survived or not, no small feat as most of these type of films have such one-dimensional cardboard characters that I usually can't be bothered. Which I guess is also true here to some extent, but I was drawn into the story regardless.

I liked it. It's of course in no way original, we've seen it all before: long and dark subway tunnels with creepy inhabitants lurking about, and young people getting subjected to sadistic tortures by some psychopathic maniac. Imagine something like Hostel meets Meat Train. But with that taken into account it's all done in a surprisingly convincing and effective way, this movie is actually very scary and although a tiny bit over-long, it has a good pace and keeps you guessing until the end if someone will make it alive.Four youngsters (a love-couple and two other girls) pair up with a German guide to make a nightly tour in the dark catacombs under the city of Berlin. When their guide has an accident, they are on their own and have to survive some unexpected terrors. The start of the movie made me cringe a little (the awkward foreign accents, some hints of bad acting, the preppy girls and the angelic boy), but as soon as we leave the pandemonium of the club-scene, walk down into the basement and the iron door locks-up behind the group, the whole movie sort of collapses into a totally different mode and it gets more and more entertaining and creepy.A lot has been said about the German language that is used in parts of the movie. To me this added very much to the realism of it, all the more since the German speakers were native German actors and not, as so often, American or English actors painfully trying to come up with some foreign lines. The setting in these tunnels (be it real or make-believe) was great, and I loved the photography that gave everything an unnerving and very creepy feel. The acting turned out to be fairly good too. The two kissing girls didn't have much to do, but the third girl did a good job portraying someone frightened totally out of her wits and in the end on the verge of hysteria. And I was especially impressed with Nick Eversman as the hero in-spite-of-himself. His boyish appearance didn't promise much heroism, in fact that role seemed to be in the hands of the blond German guide, but after he falls in a pit, Eversman is the only man in the house and has to take over the part of the leader. I really admired the way he convincingly showed all the emotions that came with this involuntary role, trembling with fear, cowardly hiding away when he witnesses the brutal torture that his girlfriend undergoes, forever hesitating what to do, until he almost reluctantly takes a stand and tries to confront the tormentor. I had SO much granted him success, but alas….. The biggest role (also physically) is of course the subterranean psycho. Klaus Stiglmeier makes him almost larger than life, on the brink of too much (and the risk of turning it into a parody), but he (as well as the direction of course) succeeds in keeping it within the boundaries of realism. And boy, is he a big and mean and menacing bugger!! I liked the way in which in the beginning he wears this mask of harsh friendliness (he had ME fooled too!) before the insanity breaks through. These two sides came to a wonderful climax in the scene in the subway-train where he poses as a ticket-controller while our cornered girl is the only one who knows what he's really up to. There is gore, but it's more cleverly suggested than really graphic. With the exception of one very confronting and awesome scene, which of course I won't give away, but thumbs up to the special effects people! The end of the movie is not so satisfying. The resurrection of the original guide was a bit too much and not very necessary for the story. It could have ended some 15 minutes earlier. And why the open ending? Was the discovered body dead or alive? Did it lead to the arrest of the psycho? If not, why bother showing it at all?? Anyway, we don't get to know. There are some other flaws too in the script. The neo-Nazis that they stumble upon in the beginning don't have any function in the rest of the story. As do the Nazi-relics they find on the walls (beautiful drawings by the way - could they be real??). And how someone can call himself a "guide" and then risk the lives of clueless tourists by leading them totally unprepared and with no other protection than flashlights into an evidently dangerous abyss where he himself at times is baffled by unexpected barriers (like a stone wall that had to be broken down! Did he have to do that over and over on every tour?!?) is beyond me. But these are relatively minor flaws in an otherwise surprisingly good and effective horror movie. I rank it 8 out of 10.