Urban Explorers - Cult Laboratories

“AN EPIC NIGHTMARE… ‘THE DESCENT’ MEETS ‘CREEP’” – FRIGHTFEST.

Urban Explorers - Making Of Mini-Doc

2nd March 2012

There seem to be a few tensions on set in this revealing featurette. It's hardly surprising, conditions in the abandoned tunnels beneath the city of Berlin must have been squalid at best. Still the end result was definitely worth any discomfort and stress that creating a movie in such conditions might cause.

Director Andy Fetcher: Q&A

1st March 2012

Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival Q&A with Urban Explorer director Andy Fetscher.

Bucharest Meat

29th Feb. 2012

Urban Explorers is director Andy second film but for those curious about his earlier work we present the trailer for Bukarest Fleisch (Bucharest meat)…

Real Urban Exploring Pt.4: Beneath London

27th Feb. 2012

The counter-cultural ‘sport’ of Urban Exploration is an international pastime but it's also one that exists very much in the grey when it comes to legality, hence the caginess of the guide in the Urban Explorers movie. He knows that the risks involved don't only include injury and disorientation, there's every chance of earning a criminal record as well. Perhaps that's part of the attraction for the less risk averse participants.

Last year, a group of UK based explorers found themselves in very hot water when they aroused the suspicions of security services by heading into unused tunnels leading away from the Russell Square station into parts of the underground network long since closed to the public. Unfortunately, their timing couldn't have been more askew. Secret jollies beneath the London streets don't go down too well when there's an imminent royal wedding approaching.

Read more now on THE GUARDIAN website:

GHOST STATION EXPLORERS SPOOK THE SECURITY SERVICES

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The rapidly growing global phenomenon of urban exploration (also known as Urbex or UE), in which thrill-seeking enthusiasts explore the normally unseen or off-limits areas of towns, cities and industrial facilities, provides the unique background for director Andy Fetscher’s chilling survival-horror shocker, Urban Explorers, coming to DVD and Blu-ray on 5th March 2012.

The winner of the Best Picture, Best Actor (Klaus Stiglmeier), Best Editing and Best Make-Up awards at LA’s prestigious Screamfest Horror Film Festival in 2011, Urban Explorers is a slickly shot, tautly scripted and expertly directed horror treat, full of suspense, nightmarish situations and more than a little gore.

Looking for something different away from the usual well-beaten tourist trails of metropolitan Berlin, four young people – partners Denis (Nick Eversman) and Lucia (Nathalie Kelley), plus recently acquainted Marie (Catherine de Lean) and Juna (Brenda Koo) – hire local guide Kris (Max Riemelt) to take them on a tour with a guaranteed surprise. Kris leads the group into the city’s dark and dank subterranean maze of wartime escape tunnels and underground fortifications on a rare, and illegal, trip to visit the legendary, graffiti-laden and now walled-up Nazi war rooms rarely seen by anyone since the end of World War II.

The trip takes an initial bad turn when the group encounters a pair of confrontational neo-Nazis and their dogs prowling around, but things get much worse when an unfortunate accident leaves Kris immobile and desperately in need of medical attention. Marie and Juna set off to find help, leaving Denis and Lucia to stay behind and look after Kris. The unexpected arrival of a bedraggled looking man, Armin (Klaus Stiglmeier), provides a ray of hope. A former East German border guard and now a self-appointed “guardian” of the tunnels, Armin takes them to his base with the promise of safety and a phone call for help. However, it soon becomes apparent that Denis and Lucia have just made the biggest mistake of their young lives.

Taking the viewer on a fascinating and frightening trip into an unseen underground world, the kind of which that secretly exists beneath most vibrant cities, Urban Explorers unearths the hidden dangers and fears that lurk not only in the shadows of these unexposed landscapes but also in the darkest recesses of the mind.

Urban Explorers (cert. 18) will be released on DVD (£15.99) and Blu-ray (£19.99) by Anchor Bay Entertainment on 5th March 2012.