Urban Explorer

A standard underground slasher/exploitation flick. Not original at all, nicely made, with nothing really bad like characters behaving illogically, etc. The villain looks a little too glaringly psychopathic, almost like some sort of caricature of a horror villain at times. Urban exploring is a very interesting and attractive activity (and that’s why I looked forward so much to this film), so it’s a bit of a shame that the creators failed to use the settings of abandoned urban architecture to create a thick atmosphere, and instead, they stuck to pretty and attractive visuals to produce consumer horror that will not offend the viewers, but would rather appeal to ignorant teenagers. It works fine under the circumstances, but it’s not something to write an ode to. And a quibble to close: most of the film takes place in an inaccessible underground space, but when the torches are off there’s still light everywhere, as if things were taking place in a dim room with light coming from the surface. It’s silly, I know, but I did notice it and it bothered me a little. (16/02/2012)

Lukáš Grygar versus a Germanic James Coburn in an exhausted variation on the underground killing game "we crawl where we shouldn't, then we wonder, we run away and squeal a lot". The unbelievable boredom is partly avoided thanks to the villain. And at least it's not filmed with a shaky amateur camera. (28/07/2013)