Synopsis
When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones that lies beneath the streets of Paris, they embark on a journey into madness and terror.
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Cast
- Perdita WeeksScarlett
- Ben FeldmanGeorge
- Edwin HodgeBenji
- François CivilPapillon
- Marion LambertSouxie
- Ali MarhyarZed
- Cosme CastroLa Taupe
- Hamid DjavadanReza
- Théo CholbiGloomy Teenager
- Emy LévyTour Guide
Recommendations
- 72
Film.com
The film’s finely tuned middle act, a fast-paced and quick-witted journey into (possible) madness, eventually gives way to an unsettlingly over the top final section that relies far too much on larger setpieces and supposed “big scares” that are never as good as the smaller, weirder stuff. - 60
Total Film
Boasts sporadically electrifying visuals but a frustratingly messy mythology. - 50
Variety
It all makes for clumsy-fun escapism, not bad as end-of-summer chillers go. - 50
Slant Magazine
The film predictably alternates in scaring its characters by tapping into their deepest fears and having them rub shoulders with the relics of a past that insists on being undisturbed. - 40
The Telegraph
These catacombs are just an echo chamber into which any rubbish can be pumped, and while this gives carte blanche to production designer Louise Marzaroli, the relentless flow of subterranean non-sequitur becomes at least as trying as the whirling, jerky non-cinematography. - 40
The Guardian
There are some interestingly contrived moments of claustrophobia and surreal lunacy, but this cliched and slightly hand-me-down script neither scares nor amuses very satisfyingly. - 40
New York Magazine (Vulture)
There are moments of welcome tension amid the inchoate lunacy, but these in turn merely highlight why the rest of the film doesn’t work. - 38
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
It’s more unpleasant than scary, and ever so slow in getting up to speed.
