1956, in the north of France. A group of underground miners is forced to take a professor to take samples a thousand meters underground. After a landslide that prevents them from going back up, they discover a crypt from another time, and unknowingly awaken a legendary bloodthirsty creature.
Practical Effects
Creature design that actually feels ancient and wrong.
Cinematography
Tunnels so tight you'll check your own breathing.
Sound
Mining machinery becomes its own horror instrument.
Director
Mathieu Turi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Draws on real French mining disasters and the 1906 Courrières catastrophe that killed 1,099 workers, exploiting actual labor trauma.
Shot in actual decommissioned mines in northern France—cast genuinely couldn't stand upright in many scenes.
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