Have you ever found yourself in a tough situation on a night out? Maybe done too many shots and ended up in some place weird? Did you trust the wrong kind of people? Did you mistakenly visit that unsavory part of town without knowing? Or were you only innocently trying to buy drugs? We’ve all been there, so don’t worry.
These kids need to however. During an evening of partying, a bunch of friends get on the bad side of their fellow revelers and make attempts to escape by running into an abandoned facility which runs underneath the ground. Their problems are barely beginning as they discover scientific abominations deadlier than their human attackers.
This dumbass slasher is certainly influenced by, or is at least in admiration of the culture of the military; not unlike Aliens, where the participants in the terror are only soldiers to display the strength of the antagonists. Yet its theme is automatically wasted on bravado posturing and showing off with little extra substance other than a tiresome backstory and the mad scientist trope.
The production is relatively alright; the actors are pretty lousy unfortunately, and the scenes suffer from lacking coordination, sloppy cameras and an insistence on thick, crude lighting which appears thoroughly primative. The soundtrack is cool, featuring multiple instruments and styles, but its involvement is too jubilant and overexcited.
Underground suffers more from is piss poor attempt at the evil guys or whatever the hell they are. The makeup and costumes are okay, the special effects are passable, they’re just so superficial and unbelievable as anything threatening. Really? Backflipping zombies? Are you serious – who wrote this fucking thing?
It’s a fairly loathsome experiment at survival horror and its constant appeals to authority don’t swing either. Perhaps the idea of the whole flick is for teens or young adults with their eyes set on a life within the navy, the air force, or something similar. Whichever career path they take, it’s obvious that none of these guys care about making decent films.
2/10
Possession Media 