"Gates to Hell: Underground" is the German release of "Underground." The film opens with a failed "search and destroy lock and load" operation against mole men. Two years later a rave is being held on top of that underground facility. After a fight and a chase we find eight (?) young adults trapped in said facility with the expected meet up of the ugly guy with bad teeth on the cover.The production didn't shy away from overly impossible graphic scenes, some are mini plot spoilers on the German cover. The generator started up after sitting there for two years, a tribute to Woody Allen's VW scene in "Sleeper" no doubt. Our group of young adults were armed with sticks and knives, certainly superior weapons to the M-14's carried by the sissy army who couldn't kill them. However, our heroes had trouble subduing an octogenarian in a wheel chair with an IV and an eye patch.(Hint: Go in from his blind side.) The film is shot mostly in a dimly lit area with a greenish glow...like the cover.The production is a straight forward hunt and kill film. No twist. Even when they discovered what the creatures were, it felt like a Scooby-doo moment. Gee, who would ever have thought of that.Guide: F-word. Sex, No nudity

First of ...as a whole it kind of sucked but if you take it apart there are definitely some good examples were other directors could take notes and learn something from this movie.Yes it has clichés but for half the movie it also breaks them and for me that really adds value to this horror flick.Some things I really liked was that at a point they decided to stick together cause very often in other horrors they decide to split up to cover more ground and end up getting offed one by one.Also one more than one occasion they still go after there friends in an attempt to save them in stead of going"well he or she is done for so F 'm".Than there is also an explanation to how these creatures came to be and thats one of the scenes I will remember cause it looked really sick.The setting was really good and despite the low light it had a real creepy atmosphere and made me think of the hellish look in "hell raiser"some times.What bordered me most were the lot of inconsistencies this movie had and that were the parts that were kind of hard to swallow.Especially the fact that a whole squadron got offed so easy and than some kids that just came from a rave can put up a better fight seems very far-fetched and also the strengths of the creatures seems to vary thru out the picture.Thus I come to the conclusion that I made in the summary.Its not a waste of time but its good to be cautious.I hope this helps.

Eight young people flee from trouble at a disco and get stuck in an old military bunker hiding an abandoned black project. This film delivers according to the parameters of the synopsis.There is some military experience amongst the trapped folk, some sanity, some reasoning. There are some good words in the script too.The middle section is fast and furious when bad things turn up. As another reviewer mentioned the mood of very serious. You wouldn't bet on anyone making it out alive.I can't find fault with any aspect of the film. They could easily rework this to be part of a sequel to Mad Max: Fury Road.The moral of this story is that bad people perform bad experiments and it's not very nice to clean all that up.

"Underground" had potential to be great, but it never made it above less than mediocrity, sadly enough. Why? Well because of the lack of lighting. Now, I know that it was taking place in an underground bunker, but most of the scenes were so dark that it was hard to get a view of what was going on. Sure, it added to the realism of the lack of light far underneath the ground, but as a viewer of a movie, I would like to see what was going on. I didn't pay money to just sit around and look at poor-lit images all through an entire movie.The story in "Underground" is the American government has been conducting secret experiments underground, gee - haven't we seen that before? And get this, of course there had to be some reference to notorious Dr. Mengele from World War II - just to add some diabolic twist to the storyline. Anyway, a bunch of young people are attending a rave at an abandoned military base - yep, you guessed it - the exact same military base where the government were conducting these inhuman experiments. After running afoul with gang-bangers, the people get trapped underground. But they aren't alone, they are being stalked by the genetically altered hybrids of man-beasts."Underground" had potential to be much more than it turned out to be. Don't get me wrong, the storyline - although cheesy and been seen numerous times before - wasn't all that bad. The storyline worked out well enough, and there was a great sense of claustrophobia and paranoia in the movie. But the complete lack of proper lighting really made the movie unbearable to sit through. Which was a shame.As for the effects in the movie, well they were actually alright, and this subspecies of genetically altered humans were looking great. They did have that ferocious beastly quality to them. Just a shame they were mostly kept in the shadows or near-complete darkness most of the time."Underground" had a great ensemble of actors and actresses who did put on good performances. I think the only one I recognized in this movie was Jack Donner (playing Gunther). So it was nice to have a horror movie with a cast of fresh, new faces for a change.Despite having potential, "Underground" never really kicked it off for me, because the lack of lighting really brought down the enjoyment of the movie. This style of keeping everything, and I do mean everything, in darkness is so early 1980's horror movie. It worked nicely back in the day, but today we want to see the dread and horror stalking us beneath the surface of the ground.