mlev468 Why wouldn't she stop screaming? "It's a prank"? Worse premise than nightmare on elm street's waking from a dream in a dream in a dream...This was on a movie channel while I was doing other things - definitely 'walk-out' material if I'd gone to a theater.I don't understand why a short and succinct review has to be 10 lines.Why wouldn't she stop screaming? "It's a prank"? Worse premise than nightmare on elm street's waking from a dream in a dream in a dream...This was on a movie channel while I was doing other things - definitely 'walk-out' material if I'd gone to a theater.I don't understand why a short and succinct review has to be 10 lines.

GL84 Traveling to visit her sister in Paris, a woman gets dragged along to a party underneath the city streets in the infamous maze of dead bodies buried there only to find a legend of a masked madman true who begins relentlessly pursuing her through the darkened, twisting corridors.While initially appearing to be something quite enjoyable, this here turned out to be a massive train-wreck. One of the biggest problems with this one is the completely and utter failure to utilize one of the greatest locations possible for a horror film in the catacombs of the dead buried under the streets of Paris. While we see mountains of bones and walls of skulls throughout, the fact that they're usually featured while the camera is shaking around violent trying to capture the intensity of a madman chasing after somebody or edited in a rapid criss-cross manner to render any amount of atmosphere present completely null and void by being unable to see what's going on. This is made even more evident with the ridiculousness of the finale, where it's revealed through two twist endings that not only was the entire effort pointless but also that a deranged killer is now loose on the world with an available assortment of bodies able to be traced right back to them. It makes no sense at all for the second one to come around, though the first is still pretty creative in content but just handled the complete wrong way as it was, and that really undermines the whole fact that the film spends an hour and a half with the one victim against the unseen killer that never really does any damage to her along the way, making the twist come around as a reinforcement of what happened rather than a big shock twist. It just doesn't work as it does and that makes for a rather disjointed and uneven time, despite the few good parts here. The back-story for the deformed killer is awesomely original and creative, the film is essentially one big chase sequence through underground caverns and leads to a series of impressive suspense scenes and general chilling moments, and the whole film carries on quickly enough to not get bored with her endless wandering around doing nothing for the main part of the film. Still, though, it's not enough to overcome the big flaws present.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Brief Nudity and drug use.

Mikel3 Warning: Please skip these comments if you are offended by the mention of religion in movie discussions Started watching 'Catacombs' on amazon prime yesterday afternoon. The story deals with a group that holds wild parties in the catacombs below Paris. They have loud music set up, bars, a stage, all sorts of things that would seem to be impossible given the location. Since it's illegal to do this they constantly change the location of the parties so that the police can not find them. They say in the film that there are many hundreds of miles of catacombs below the city. This is probably an extreme exaggeration for the sake of the story. The description of the plot at the IMDb intrigued me "On her first trip to Paris, a young woman hits a party in the Catacombs, the 200-mile labyrinth of limestone tunnels under the city that's lined with the remains of 7 million people. Separated from her friends, she becomes convinced that someone or something is chasing her." Sounds interesting right? So I put on the film. Right off viewing it was hard, it's one of those movies that seems to think people have such a short attention span they have to flash from one scene quickly to another or we will lose interest. It wasn't done constantly; there were periods of normal scenes where we have time to adjust to what we are looking at. I held out for about a half hour or so to see what was ahead, hoping they might stop the irritating quick changes. The final straw for me was when one character started telling some back story about a satanic like group. They showed images of important Christian religious figures being defiled. Like the the head on a statue of the Virgin Mary being smashed up and more. This to me was upsetting so I simply turned off the movie. I've noticed that Christianity has become an easy target in many films and other media now a days. It's become a target while other religion's symbols have not, perhaps for fear of retribution by them. Can you imagine a movie showing the destruction of the Koran for instance and the up roar that would create ? Too bad these sort of scenes seem to be used for shock value. Anyway, I don't recommend the film for the reasons stated.

wadechurton Another prime example of what could have been an effective twenty-minute short getting the full 88-minute treatment and suffering for it. A girl is terrified by a scary prank and reacts by killing those responsible. There you go, that's the whole plot in a nutshell. Now imagine it rattling around inside an great big 88-minute nutshell, and you have 'Catacombs'. There's just not enough story to go the distance, so basically the majority of the movie is spent watching the increasingly-distraught heroine running up and down many, many gloomy corridors and stumbling through several half-lit service-rooms until you just can't take it any more and the fast forward button begins to earn its keep. The entire mid-section of 'Catacombs' was like being trapped in a video-game, desperately trying every last nook and cranny in an attempt to finally exit the level. Given the genuinely dangerous and life-threatening chills and spills of the girl's ordeal, the movie's 'it was all a prank' ending was highly improbable, to make a polite understatement. All up, 'Catacombs' was a waste of time, money and effort. You're better off with a cup of tea and a good book. In closing, while the movie was pretty bad, it must be said that Pink (or Alecia Moore, as she was born) wasn't. It wasn't much of a role (more of a beefed-up cameo, really) but despite the extreme opinions of some reviewers here, Pink actually did okay. She was at least as good as ever I've seen Sharon Stone...