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Underground
UK 2023
produced by Lars Janssen, Charlotte Dawn Potter for Guernsey Filmworks, Rêvasser Films
directed by Lars Janssen
starring Caitlyn Barber, Charlotte Dawn Potter, Maaike Tol, Nadia Dawber, Sapphire Brewer-Marchant, Alexandra Rhiana Rowe, Dave King, Bodo Friesecke, James Swanton, Evie Hyett, Brandon Ashplant, Cameron Ashplant, Mikey Ferbrache, Andrew T Hislop, Chris Reeves, Danny Lowe, Dave Hyett, Kaelan Le Page, Mike Ozanne, Peter Amory, Ben Hislop, Jasmine Hislop, Luella Taylor, Simon De La Rue, Annette Henry, Louise Mitchinson, Lynda Potter, Jack Watson
written by Charlotte Dawn Potter, Lars Janssen, music and sound design by Herman Witkam
review by Mike Haberfelner
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It's only days until Ella's (Maaike Tol) getting married to Abigail
(Alexandra Rhiana Rowe), so her best friends Jessica (Caitlyn Barber),
Riley (Charlotte Dawn Potter), Claire (Nadia Dawber) and Ziggy (Sapphire
Brewer-Marchant) throw her a bachelorette party ... and get so drunk that
their taxi driver (Dave King) throws them out of his car a few miles
outside their hometown after Ziggy throws up in his car. However, they
think they know a shortcut home, a shortcut that takes them past an
abandoned facility that once saved as a secret bunker for the Nazis. And
as fate has it, while stumbling through the dark, Ziggy falls into one of
the bunker's airshafts and breaks a leg. And after the others have climbed
down the shaft to get Ziggy out, somebody shuts the airshaft. Now that's
troubling of course, all the more so since the bunker's basically a big
maze, and finding a way out could take them forever, especially with Ziggy
being injured. But then, just like that, Ziggy disappears, and looking for
both her and a way out, the girls encounter things are as unnerving as
they're unnatural, and they soon have to realize they're not alone in the
facility - and whatever's there with them is evil ...
Now Underground has been shot found footage style, and
to be quite honest, it suffers a bit from this approach, as it's overly
relying on shaky camerawork instead of a proper cinematic language to
create suspense, is at times badly lit just to fake realism, and an
over-reliance on improvisation causes the girls to talk over one another
just a bit too much - and on top of that, the found footage approach isn't
even narratively warranted in this case. But that all said, Underground
is by no means a bad film: Sure, it could have done with a lot less
exposition and could have gone into the thick of things a bit sooner, but
once the girls are trapped in the bunker, there's many a really scary
scene, the location itself manages to provide the film with just the right
eerie atmosphere, and the girls' performances are uniformly solid as they
portray their characters likeable and relatable. It's a film that no doubt
could have been better, but is pretty entertaining as it is nontheless.
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Robots and rats,
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