A young woman carries on her father’s work searching for the Philosopher’s Stone, slipping into the same obsession that eventually drove him to madness and suicide. After a close call in Iran, she gets some info that could get her further than her father ever managed. This leads her to Paris which eventually leads her and a small group of people into the catacombs deep under the City of Light. Caught on camera thanks to her being the focus of a documentary, we get a POV look at the fate which befalls the poor young folks as their journey takes them into Hell itself. Claustrophobic and creepy, the film smartly does some shooting in the actual catacombs to build the atmosphere. There’s some shocking violence to add a nice jolt to the proceedings and it plays out intriguingly enough to raise it above the usual found footage humdrum.
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