GamerTab That was an excellent one.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Motompa Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

movieswithgreg OK, here's the deal. The only way you're going to think this is a good movie is if you're a fanboy of the so-called horror genre, because only fanboys will overlook all the obvious shortcomings of this low-budget, simplistic, psycho-with-no-name killer, cat and mouse game in the dank, initially foreboding, but ultimately monotonous tunnels of Berlin, where the usual pretty boys and pretty girls make an underground mountain of illogical, counter-intuitive, anti-survival decisions that lead to conclusions you no longer care much about, which in my case, stopped about ten minutes after they encountered their coveralled boogeyman with his inexplicable glaring and exaggerated gesturing. The violence is jumbled through cheat-cut closeups more commonly associated with high school production values, albeit a bit slicker. To call this a "classic," or "best of anything," is to make a sad admission about how uninteresting and unvaried that the modern whore-or genre really is. This is just another also-rans unimpressive, un-psychological chapter in the apocrypha of male-virgin eye candy that frighten only the most unsophisticated of shut-in teens.

johannes2000-1 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.

gerddeblieck Very difficult to be original in these days...nicely managed. A couple of links to the " Texas Chainsaw massacre". Like the music, I got flashbacks to the old classic. The images are sometimes too dark. Beautiful performance of Andreas Wisniewski (also appeared in Die Hard). He is a real added value for this film. The different nationalities of the characters makes the movie more realistic. No screaming teenage girls. That distinction the European horror film. The movie is also just a little too long... The introduction should just slightly shorter. For the rest nice pop corn film, but about 10 years will this movie be forgotten. Just not good enough to speak of a classic...

Christine_Plymouth_Fury1958 A lot of reviews said they gave it a lower rating than they would have because the movie did not have subtitles, but the one I watched did, so don't be put off from seeing it, since it's a film horror fans wouldn't want to miss. It reminds me a bit of Wolf Creek, except for the contrast in setting, obviously.The male protagonist of the story would irritate you to no end on the choices he makes, but you might find yourself rooting for him, all the same. One female, the one with the camera, will make you want to push her in a ravine on one scene, because their unfortunate circumstances started due to her utter stupidity. Just had to get that off my chest. Heh.I must say, you'd think, in the beginning of the film, that the villain would be different, but as the film progresses, it will prove you wrong. He actually surprised me by his evil-ness, although the torture scenes were not as bad as what I've seen in other gore-themed movies. And I actually liked that they toned it down a notch and didn't make it out to be like another Saw or Hostel movie. I'm not much of a fan of those, though I have seen my share.The characters will make you go bald from pulling your hair from its roots,because you're frustrated as **** with the choices they make. It won't make you stop from sitting at the edge of your seats though. You'll be able to watch this to the end, because it's the kind of movie that compels you to do so, even if you know it might not be categorized into the same level as some of the greats.Watch it. It's worth your time, especially for a true horror fan.