In a very short period, Screambox has emerged as a new niche in streaming services for view-at-home horror in the year 2022. Over the year 2022, they have managed to bring out some of the best documentaries and independent pieces of horror. One such piece is the film Underground, found footage horror as directed by Lars Janssen.
But the most beautiful thing regarding the subgenres of horror is that they are never truly dead. They may scale down and become underpriced in the industry, but all they require are new angles. In the first place, it should be stated that in fact, Underground does not seek to reinvent the wheel too much regarding found footage horror.
However, that is not obligatory to be considered a negative about the feature film. Concerning the premise, however, it reels you in and makes you stare at the screen and think whether something is moving in the dark. It is about a company of girls, who after a wild ‘bachelorette’ party, order an Uber and are thrown out of the car because of their bad behaviour. They are lost, and in the dark, they enter a creepy old house that appears to be deserted.
The cult likes to call this film ‘Underground’ due to its extreme psychological horror, sobering loss, and the extreme struggle for survival revolving around its central characters. In this case, some sadist collapses the well while one of the group members crawls down to it and the action shifts into a basement of a World War II bunker somewhere in Germany in a very short time. The premise is interesting, but don’t expect any surprises or look for them, do not exacerbate the suspense that is already built up in Underground. Expect excitement and nothing else.
What Janssen is doing is directing this with a style that you did not see in the last Paranormal Activity movie you saw in 2009 or any of those repetitive sequels that were a waste of time. Rather, he is focusing on the key conflict where the limitation is created by two intrusive factors, first, an underground concrete bunker, and second, which is much more subjective and concerning to the individual’s turmoil.
This is the film’s largest disadvantage because almost all found-footage films fall into the same pit, which is the lead-up that preceded the horror. There is invariably and in every film, an introduction of fifteen minutes or twenty minutes in which the lives of the main characters seem to be perfectly alright and therefore one is hurrying to the end of the film because that’s what one came to see. It is sure to annoy and agitate the members of the audience.
Sure, Underground might have around twenty-five minutes of footage featuring the bachelorette party coming together for the movie’s girls but instead of making you boring, it rather does one thing in its public – it strives to make you embrace these people, so why don’t we take some time to get to know them a little better.
Not only found-footage but also horror as a genre has weather elements, which dooms any storyboards to accidentally have some damsels in distress somewhere in the slaughterhouse if such a conception board even has the basic tenets because all the things…that are supposed to culminate into a kill which is excessive even for a level of oversaturation, the point when the last woman dies and she is devoid of depth and all the characteristics of a person a mere comic, one-dimensional caricature. Throughout, it’s mostly screaming and that mascara that had adorned the lady’s face is now all over the place thanks to her crying.
Underground features a cast of girls who seem to be scared of Javier and the lot, but that’s such a well-knit fear that it makes their views more understandable. They seem unfazed by the unnerving sounds outside the bunker.
Screambox has become a residence for incomplete horror films that have a very discrete style and models. Underground: A UK film is one such film.
Have no doubt, Underground will appeal to found footage lovers who will take epic shots of hunger and dread developing the franchise rather than the camera tricks and flashiness in the no budget feature. The majority of the movie is black and white, and Abs manages to enhance the dramatic feel a bit. It would have been better, however, if the Underground, which has a run time of 101 minutes, was shorter, removing around ten minutes from its duration is quite fair. As a whole, it’s only an invitation to that subgenre which ought to work well.
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