Rio Hayward
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Myron Clemons
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
Abegail Noëlle
While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
blankenshipdk
Another case of cinematic rolling pin action where a half hour concept is spread, or more accurately flattened, into an hour and half long feature. Despite a promising premise, the story quickly degrades into about an hour of shrill screaming by our featured anti-heroine, Victoria, as she freaks out under Paris. Allegedly no one can hear you scream in the catacombs, however, the acoustics are no match for Vickie's stridency. She sounds as if she's plugged into a Marshall set on eleven with the crappy rave soundtrack jacked into channel two as accompaniment. In fairness to star Shannyn Sossamon, she throws her skinny self around with some fat charismatic scene chewing, attempting to lend some heft to the lightweight screenplay, which when having the " hysterical girl runs screaming in catacombs " parts removed, will likely only leave about seven pages of actual dialog. Maybe the heavy yelling is suggestive filler for the anticipated silence of the audience. Nonetheless, Sossamon's performance, even in the face of limited material, ups the rating several notches and I thought Pink did a decent job in her cross over work. The rest of the cast is presented as anonymous and annoying French folks who have nothing better to do than spend their excessive free time playing pranks thus proving that they're just bored socialists who get all their stuff for free. The suspense story is undermined by the spoiler announcement which is broadcast in the opening scene in order that you don't suffer from over excitement. The seemingly implausible plot twists at the conclusion hardly seem worth the wait in this catacomb catatonia.
chow913
The catacombs of Paris, a lesser known historical marvel of how Paris' over populated cemeteries were cleaned out and 7,000,000 human skeletons were arranged in a macabre maze underground! So in 2007 when I heard it was the setting for a new horror movie I just had to see it! There's no cheap CGI, it's filmed on location.Victoria flies from Boston to Paris to visit her sister, a drugged out drunk party girl. It's the role Pink was born to play.Pink takes Victoria to a rock concert in the catacombs. And by "concert" I mean an orgy of drugs and alcohol. Predictably Victoria gets lost and chased by a goat headed monster said to haunt the catacombs. This goes on for 80 minutes and it's more boring than words can describe.At least the ending is a good one. SPOILER WARNING!!! Eventually Victoria kills one of her pursuers only to discover this was all a prank by Pink and her friends. Ha ha ha. What it's a joke is that Victoria really did kill one of the friends out of fear. As Pink is cursing her Victoria beats all of them to death! Amen. They all deserved it for the hell they put her and the audience through.Can't really think of single reason to see this film as they don't make use of the on location filming in the catacombs. Come on! 7,000,000 human skeletons and they couldn't come up with anything scary?
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.
trashgang
Catacombs has nothing to do with the Catacombs from 1988, it's not a remake. The only comparison it has is that it takes place in a, sigh, catacomb. And that's what this movie is all about. It's being trapped in a catacomb that really looks like a maze. But the movie had his problems. Why oh why do pop stars want to act. Here we have the famous Pink! her acting is like other pop stars really wooden. And it's even a bit of overacting. But the main problem is the story itself. What starts of like a decent movie turns out to be a bit boring. The scene's were they show how the satanic cult lives in the catacombs is really nicely done. It is even a bit gory and the killing of the baby is even for some squeamish. But from that point it's only running and running. The plot is a surprise but again, what happens then is also overrated, and suddenly the end credits appear. But they say you can't judge a book on its cover but not for DVD's (or Blu Rays). It was stated as "from the producers of Saw". When you see "from the..." you almost immediately know that it's going to be bad.
