Catacombs |  | Directors: David Elliot, Tomm Coker
Actors: Shannyn Sossamon, Pink, Emil Hostina, Sandi Dragoi, Mihai Stanescu
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.8 x 0.6
MPN: 22462
UPC: 031398224624
EAN: 0031398224624
ASIN: B00105304M
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: February 19, 2008
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Genre: Horror
Rating: UN
Release Date: 19-FEB-2008
Media Type: DVD
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 H O R R O R......F I L M.....W I T H....A.....M O R A L .! October 26, 2009
Patricia (Queens, New York, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an atmospheric movie, with a credible, followable story and lots of exciting moments! A girl gets a letter from her sister, saying simply: "You need to come to Paris." When she gets there, the sisters do NOT visit the Louvre, or fancy Parisian restaurants, or even window-shop at the more fasionable and expensive dress shops. For some reason, (explained at the very end of the movie), the sister in Paris wants her American-living sister to visit the underground catacombs of Paris -- where a "party" of sorts is being held. The sisters DO go shopping -- but not for high-fashion clothes! (No matter how poor a person is, WHY anyone wants to go to the "lower depths" of society -- the "grunge", "punk" or just totally-rebellious scene, is something I'll never figure out. But -- well, my own neice, on a visit to my mom and my home in Queens, NY, several years back, ALSO decided to go to the seedier side of Manhattan to visit her friends during her visit. Luckily, (very!), nothing comparable to what happens in this film happened to my neice -- but this sort of thing DOES happen, some people ARE really drawn to the lowest depths of society....and bad things DO happen. (All that happened on my neice's visit was that my mom and I had some sleepless nights worring about her. However, in this movie..........)
Well, our heroine has quite an adventure. Events transpire that she gets LOST in the underground catacombs of Paris -- where a few million people are, (in reality, actually) buried, row upon row, upon row, upon row! She meets up with a 'phantom beast', and a guy who MAY, (or may not), want to help her. The passages where she runs THROUGH the maze-passages of the catacombs get to be a bit longish and wearying -- but that makes the movie all the more scary and real. The viewer, too, eventually just wants to get OUT of those passages, and back to the safety of the above-ground party, and then go HOME. Will our heroine finally get out of the catacombs? Or will she remain, wandering there forever, (and eventually in the darkness, as flashlight batteries eventually do die....)?
W A R N I N G...S P O I L E R....A L E R T.............The ending of the film is a realistic shocker....and is one of the best lessons in anger-management I have ever seen portrayed on the screen. To say more would TOTALLY give away the ending...perhaps I have said too much already. However, it reveals nothing of the plot to say this is an intense, engrossing little thriller, that will keep any horror-affictionado on the edge of her or his seat! There is a laudable very small amount of bloodshed, and a laudable small amount of 4-letter words. (But there is some of each, so if you don't like these things AT ALL, stay away.) The emphasis here is on plot, storyline, and characters. The way all good horror-stories used to be. The viewer's imagination is also put to some use...and this makes things even more delightfully(?) scary. Personally, I have divided scary movies into two types: "horror" movies, (of which CATACOMBS is a fine example), which rely on plot, dialogue and character for suspense, and "horriBLE" movies, which rely on gore, shock-type 4-letter words and special effects, often with a story and dialogue that are totally simplistic. CATACOMBS at least has little gore and very few 4-letter words. It has a plot and a moral. It has good dialogue and credible acting. It is the classic horror movie genre, updated a bit for today's audience. Good show!
Review of Catacombs October 6, 2009
Delia Benade (Durban, South Africa)
I love, love, love P!nk (Alecia Moore), but was still pleasantly surprised by her acting chops. The whole premise of the story has great potential, but I thought the overall production was really poor. There is a bit in the end where there is a voice over for Alecia Moore's character, but it clearly isn't her voice. This same voice over then proceeds to hop between Alecia's voice and the stand-in's. Clever twist at the end. Pity about the sloppy editing and production.
 More boring than anything else June 16, 2009
N. Durham (Philadelphia, PA)
Don't let the "From the Producers of Saw" tagline fool you (and if that's what entices you in the first place, it may be too late for you already), for Catacombs is a more boring than anything else horror dirge that wastes any potential it may have had. Shannyn Sossamon plays a withdrawn young woman named Victoria who takes a trip to France at the behest of her party-loving sister (singer Alecia "Pink" Moore). As they, along with some friends, descend into the French catacombs, bad things end up happening, culminating with Victoria seeking a way to escape the maze-like underground catacombs. While it does have a good dose of atmosphere and makes good on some historical facts, Catacombs as a whole just ends up being too boring for its own good. By the time we get passed the halfway point of the film, we don't care if Victoria or anyone else escapes or not. What does save the film from the scrap heap however is a dynamite twist ending, which may leave you feeling a little cheated, but in actuality helps make Catacombs better than it should be. All in all, Catacombs is worth a look, but if you're expecting another The Descent here, look elsewhere.
 oh, my god, the horror...of having to watch this junk February 7, 2009
Robert P. Beveridge (Cleveland, OH)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Catacombs (Tomm Coker and David Elliott, 2007)
Catacombs, as far as I could ever tell, was made expressly to give mediocre pop singer Pink some sort of entree into the film world. And if you look at it as nothing more than this, it succeeds, on the level that, well, Pink is on film, though she's an even worse actress than she is a singer. In every other way, however, the film is as absolute a failure as is possible, and its only real saving grace is that it's not the worst movie I've seen today (that honor would go to Dark Fields, which, despite us only being four days into the year, I am 90% certain will be one of the five worst movies I see in 2009).
The pop tart and Shannyn Sossamon (Wristcutters: A Love Story) star as sisters. Pink is Carolyn, the wild one, currently enrolled in graduate school at the Sorbonne. Sossamon is Victoria, the staid undergraduate student with mental problems. Carolyn invites Victoria to France for a vacation, and as the movie opens, Victoria is arriving in Paris. Carolyn has plans to take Victoria to a rave in the catacombs; things get weird when Victoria, already away from her usual meds and having taken a dose of absinthe (and really, why is it that absinthe supposedly has these incredible qualities?), gets separated from Carolyn and her friends, and becomes convinced that a serial killer who lives in the catacombs, whom the group had been telling her about, is chasing her.
The main problem with the movie is its pace; one wonders (or should) how the movie is going to continue on when everything you read about on the back of the box has already happened within the first twenty minutes, and you've still got seventy to go. Excellent question, and the answer is, "the movie will bore you to tears as, essentially, nothing happens for sixty of those seventy minutes." Then come the final ten, and while I admit to cheering a bit when Victoria reaches the obvious conclusion during the climactic scene, but honestly, did no one see that coming?
As well, Coker and Elliott are another directorial team who have mistaken the idea that "overly dark" and "atmospheric" are identical, and thus about half the movie is very difficult to see. Brilliant. The acting is, at its best, competent (Sossamon is normally half-decent, but her role here mostly involves standing and screaming, running and screaming, and falling down and screaming). The big plot twist is painfully obvious from, oh, a minute and a half into the movie (or, if you're really not paying attention, you may not figure it out till half an hour or so), and while I admit that it's a good plot twist (in the sense that I was mutely cheering for Sossamon's character for actually making a halfway intelligent choice during the climax), the predictability of it did rather dull the fun. And, of course, as to be expected from any movie containing a mediocre pop singer, the soundtrack is horrific.
Put me in mind of Sheitan, for some reason, except that Sheitan was good, and did eventually come up with a plot. (half)
How the heck do you get this movie to play? December 31, 2008
M. Stone
Is there an easter egg? I felt like I was trapped in the Catacombs. I have bought this movie 3 times from 3 different stores. All I can get it to do is play the Lionsgate logo and trailers. I have tried 2 different DVD players, and 3 copies of the movie. I can't believe I am the only one having this problem!
Whenever I try to get the menu, it goes back to the disclaimer about the commentaries.
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