"After" 2006
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 5:15 pm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462172/
We picked this up on a whim during a Blockbuster free trial. It is surprisingly good, considering the low budget.
It concerns a trio of "urban explorers" (AKA building hackers, AKA trespassers) who attempt a trip into Moscow's underworld in search of abandoned fallout shelters, Stalin's secret private metro, and the like.
One of them is suffering massive guilt from the death of his daughter the year before, and as the trip becomes increasingly dangerous (radiation, Russian troops on mysterious maneuvers, "Jacob's Ladder"-esque underground mutants) he becomes increasingly unhinged.
The ending isn't a huge surprise, but good use is made throughout of the crumbling infrastructure and the explorers' claustrophobia and paranoia.
We picked this up on a whim during a Blockbuster free trial. It is surprisingly good, considering the low budget.
It concerns a trio of "urban explorers" (AKA building hackers, AKA trespassers) who attempt a trip into Moscow's underworld in search of abandoned fallout shelters, Stalin's secret private metro, and the like.
One of them is suffering massive guilt from the death of his daughter the year before, and as the trip becomes increasingly dangerous (radiation, Russian troops on mysterious maneuvers, "Jacob's Ladder"-esque underground mutants) he becomes increasingly unhinged.
The ending isn't a huge surprise, but good use is made throughout of the crumbling infrastructure and the explorers' claustrophobia and paranoia.