As part of a science experiment, a man has spent a record-breaking length of time alone down a hole, but an hour before he's due to re-emerge, something goes wrong and his colleagues have to go in to rescue him.
Practical Effects
Genuine underground locations that look like actual hell.
Direction
Lenzi's final theatrical film: chaotic, committed, barely coherent.
Director
Umberto Lenzi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lenzi shot this in actual caves near Rome, and several cast members developed genuine claustrophobia.
Released the same year as The Abyss, this is Italy's underground answer to prestige sci-fi—emphasis on 'underground.' The 'science' was reportedly improvised daily.
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