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This actually sounds scary.

posted 20 years ago by Rockclmbr6
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Just reading the plot outline for this movie, this movie sounds like it will be pretty scary if done right. I mean, being stuck by yourself in 200 miles of tunnels underground (that's what they are stuck in right?) would be pretty *beep* scary! Although I was pretty surprised that there is so little people that are talking about this movie. I thought there would be a lot of people on this page by now.

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[–] jho-7 19 years ago

i've been down to the catacombs in paris, and let me tell you that was creepy enough for me as it was. i can't imagine setting a horror movie down there. i felt like i was in a horror movie the entire time i was in there and i constantly had an eerie feeling. great idea for a movie. i am excited for it.

[–] moonpig 19 years ago

ive been down the catacombs in rome and they are errie! just weird. i thought that the catacombs in paris were closed to the public? did u guys hear the story that they found a video recorder down there and played it back? it had a man running round frantically tryin 2 get out, n then he dropped the camera n runs away. really scary!

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[–] jackfox20 19 years ago

hey guys, i'm from montreal and its my first time doing this.

did u guys hear the story that they found a video recorder down there and played it back? it had a man running round frantically tryin 2 get out, n then he dropped the camera n runs away. really scary!

yeah i remember watching that on YTV a few years ago called "the scariest place on earth", a french filmmaker was showing parts about the catacombs and one particular scene about a man wanting to get out and suddenly dropped the camera and ran away in the darkness. the filmmaker had set up a meeting with a group of his friends and investigate the catacombs. after so many hours (not sure how many) they were almost lost and finally at the end they got out and were freaked by this.

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[–] porkchop7s 19 years ago

I'm sorry to report that this Hollywood "make-a-buck" movie was NOT SCARY AT ALL! I just got back from an advanced screening here in northern LA. Please do not watch this terrible movie. Though the concept does sound scary if done right, and it should be concidering its from the girl's POV (the one that's lost), but its not.

[–] VicariousGizmo 19 years ago

Hey, porkchop7s... does the movie just focus on the one specific girl? Sort of like a scary version of Cast Away, lol.

I'll probably still waste my 7 bucks to see it much like I did with The Cave.

[–] Critter-20 19 years ago

Pleae give a DETAILED spoiler.. so I won't ruin my view....

[–] filmfreak11 19 years ago

I was with porkchop7s. Trust us, it's TERRIBLE. Save yourselves and see something else.

The movie pretty much always stay with the main female character. After the police crashes the party, she's pretty much alone in the dark catacombs. Then she meets a random guy and at the end more people show up. But seriously, STAY AWAY!!!!!!!!! Don't even rent this piece of junk.

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[–] the_pool_of_tears 19 years ago

you do know there are hundreds of corpses down there dont you, you ever catch that special on the history channel.the guys who went down there got freakin lost and the were doing a show those idiots

[–] willsmine06 19 years ago

yeah, i know ,thats freaky. i was gonna write a story on the topic before the plans to make it into a movie. now, my idea would not be an orginal

[–] willsmine06 19 years ago

also, i would like 2 add that in folk tales the gates of hell are deep in the catacombs...thats what i heard

[–] Sword30 19 years ago

To: The pool of tears,
What catacombs are you talking about?
Here is some interesting info. Paris has no corpses in it,
it's just skeletons, and it has Thousands of them!
All of Paris has catacombs underneath it.
After the Black Plague they had too many bodies and not enough
cemeteries, so they took all the bodies and I think they even
dug up some of the cemeteries and started burying them under the
city, thus making the catacombs. I haven't been in them yet,
I walked right by one of the entrances, but there is access to
some of the catacombs still. The phone # to get the information
is 01-4322-4763 and the one entrance that I know of is on the
corner of Denfert and Rochereau.
I hope the info is useful to someone.

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[–] Booga-D 17 years ago

Facts and fiction about the Paris catacombs:

They are originally Roman quarries.
They cover most of Paris West bank (not so much the Right bank).

Back in 1780 (and not after the Black Plague which took place about 400 years earlier), it was decided to close the downtown cemetaries for health reasons (downtown mass graves and improper burials causing diseases to the surroundings of the cemetary), and moving the bones of these cemetaries in the quarries, starting with the Innocents cemetary.
The process was extended to most cemetaries in Paris, especially when in 1860 Haussman reshaped the streets of Paris (to what they basically are today) and closed all of the small cemetaries. Keep in mind that before, every church had its own cemetary, so that's a lot of them in town.

But all of these bones were not spread out all over the quarries and Paris, but all gathered in only one part of them, in what is today the 14th arrondissement, between Denfert-Rochereau and the Ste Anne Hospital (give or take a few streets).

So, today the current situation is this:
-The ossuary is located in the quarries in the Denfert-Rochereau neighborhood. It can be visited all year long.
-The rest of the quarries is closed to the public, but some people know how to get in and there's a whole subculture about this place (people going there being called "cataphiles"). It was popular in the 80's and 90's but I haven't recently heard much from it.

And both those types of tunnels, although quite different, are what constitute the Catacombes (the ones with bones that you can visit and the ones without bones and that you cannot visit, unless you know somebody who knows somebody who...)

These are the facts about the Paris catacombes.
As for the fiction, it's pretty much the rest. ;-)

[–] Sword30 17 years ago

Thank you for the corrections on the miss information I gave. I really should have looked up the info better.
I got the street info correct because it's right down the street from a friend's house, and I wrote it down for him because he wanted to know where it was.