zombies in the underground

Rating: 7/10 (29 March 2006)

First of all I would like to point out that I really enjoyed the movie. It is a horrifying movie, very claustrophobic and intense. I also liked that the plot didn't evolve around something superstitious (like demons coming up from the abyss) but rather around the idea that humans had stayed in the caves for centuries and had followed their own evolutionary path. This makes the movie more plausible and thereby also more scary.
On the downside we have the dialogue between the girls which is both tedious and very macho - at least until the scary part starts. And here we also have a very traditional horror element; the person which is the cockier is also the person that falls the hardest (a sort of hidden morale; be prepared or else....!).
You have to raise your eyebrows at the idea that these people that they meet in the caves should be able to survive by hunting wild animals. They don't use tools or weapons and they can't see. How are they going to catch a wolf? In the attempt, I will guess that they would be eaten.
Well, I will surely recommend it anyway - the good parts out weights the bad parts by far.
/Sigmund