Karl and Paula work as specialist divers in Vienna, while their former friend Fred runs a diving school in Croatia. While surveying Vienna's underground, Karl and Paula come across a system of catacombs in which they discover valuable burial objects and a mummified corpse with numerous tattoos. When Karl has an accident during his explorations, Fred is asked for help by Paula. Neither of them suspect what they will soon be involved in.
Practical Effects
Actual underwater sequences in Vienna's real flooded catacombs.
Production
Genuinely creepy mummy tattoo design that deserved better script.
Director
Curt M. Faudon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed in Vienna's actual underground canal system, the Wien River vaults—cast reportedly got ear infections from the freezing murky water.
Part of a bizarre late-90s European trend of 'aquatic thrillers' including The Big Blue and Deep Rising, though this one tanked everywhere except German TV reruns.
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