![]() This coupled with the characters that aren’t fully developed in the first place means that as soon as Klaus Stiglmeier’s Armin turns up you not only know exactly what’s going to happen in the rest of the film but you couldn’t really care less.īad music and some bad acting added to the unoriginality of the second act and the tragedy of a wonderful location wasted all combine to make Urban Explorer a boring and gratuitously brutal horror with very little to recommend about it. Sadly and frustratingly however it just becomes another mad old psychopath movie with a strong side order of torture porn. Made by German-Romanian director Andy Fetscher the most disappointing and annoying thing about Urban Explorer is surprisingly not its name but that after the terrible and cheesy opening the story and setting actually shows a modicum of promise.ĭeliberately misleading the audience with tales of Nazi mutants, appearances from skin head thugs and perilous and petrifying real life locations which are truly creepy and dangerous you feel the film could go anywhere from a simple survival story to a tale of the supernatural. Picking the former they divide and head off deeper into the dungeon like tunnels to find Kris some help however what they believe to be the lesser of two evils in fact leads them into the hands of the most terrifying and twisted thing inhabiting the Berlin tunnels and he’s hungry for new victims. Things inevitably go wrong when Kris falls from a beam and badly injures himself leaving the gang of rookie explorers with a disastrous dilemma whether to split up and try and find help and risk getting lost or stay together and leave Kris alone to die. Do all Urban Explorer's shop at Urban Outfitter? Starting their journey in a techno club they quickly descend away from the noise and light into the cavernous maze of escape tunnels and subterranean fortifications that lie under the great city in search of a Nazi war room which Kris promises the group has been fully preserved and never seen by the public. Opening like an advert for spot cream or a Euro dance video we are introduced to our international cast of clichés who have hired a local guide named Kris to show them the secret hidden underground world which lies beneath Berlin. Hold on make that two lines the other being – It’s a load of crap. ![]() Unfortunately for the unsuspecting trailblazers their savior is not who he appears to be, and by the time they realize this, it may already be too late.Receiving its UK premier at FrightFest this year Urban Explorer can be summed up in one line – Creep meets The Descent under Berlin. Just when it begins to seem as if they will never find a way out, however, an outwardly benevolent old man rescues them, and tends to their wounds. Now the deeper the explorers venture, the more lost and confused they become. ![]() In an attempt to discourage neo-Nazis from staking their claim on the city's shame, the German government closed off the tunnels permanently - or so they thought. But from the moment the group enters the tunnels, the mood underground turns ominous. Determined to explore these winding caverns despite the fact that they have been purposely sealed off for the protection of the public, four young adventurers arrive at an inner city club to meet their guide, and explore the remnants of a dark chapter in history. Six stories beneath the streets of Berlin, a complex maze of 25,000 tunnels house untold Nazi secrets. Four brave urban explorers descend into the crumbling underground tunnels beneath Berlin, and realize they may never make it out alive after encountering a mysterious stranger in this subterranean nail-biter from director Andy Fetscher.
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