Urban Explorers - Cult Laboratories

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

URBAN EXPLORERS: OUT NOW!

5th March 2012

Horror fans looking for a new take on stalk and slash, down and dirty horror need wait no more as URBAN EXPLORERShits the UK. It's the fright flick that takes you deep down into the Nazi bunkers 'neath Berlin and beyond, where sinister ex-Stasi supermen lurk, ready to pounce on young and inexperienced explorers. These hapless kids are a part of his staple diet you see…

Now, you can win a copy of the movie everyday on the ANCHOR BAY FACEBOOK FAN PAGE. Click on the image to your right, study the London Underground station map and note the locations for Urban Explorers posters. To enter, simply take a picture if you happen to be crossing the big smoke this week, post your image to the Anchor Bay Facebook spot and you could grab a DVD of this occasionally gut-wrenching horror movie gratis.

Please don't go ‘off road’ in your search for the posters. We'd hate for you to end up like the unfortunate kids in the movie…

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Urban Explorers: Out Tomorrow >>

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.