![]() Today, the only the tunnel leading straight to the power plant still survives. There are some great scenes in this film that creepily depict the maze of underground tunnels connecting each of the buildings and to the power plant. Soon, toxic materials and dark spirits start to merge." But as one member of the team starts to nose into old files in the office, he uncovers a series of tape recordings of psychiatric sessions-nine of them-related to a notorious sexual abuse case. "A hazardous-materials-cleanup company has been hired to eliminate asbestos tiles and other toxic material from a gigantic mental hospital that had been shut down in the 1980s. Luckily, Session 9 was lucky enough to use the actual location before it all was razed. The hospital was closed in 1992 and demolished by 2006. The Danver State Insane Asylum was built in 1878 and was possibly the first hospital to treat patients with pre-frontal lobotomy. Candyman (1992)įrom Wikipedia: ".features the heroine exploring tunnels that connect various rooms in some of Chicago's abandoned Cabrini Green tenements." Session 9 (2001)ĭirected by Brad Anderson ( The Machinist, Transsiberian), this psychological horror film takes place in the ruins of Danver State Mental Hospitalin Massachusetts. Please enable JavaScript to watch this video. Soon the victims begin arising in a trance and leaving the hospital by an underground passage where their fate awaits them." Pace and Detective Andriotti work together to try and isolate the strange organic material found on the victims, and to try and locate the fiend. ![]() The perpetrator only attacks women who are virgins. ![]() "The Manhattan General Hospital has admitted a string of young women who have been raped by something otherworldly. The 1986 film supposedly has an overabundance of female nudity, where the remake is more of a softcore porn. The actual movies themselves are rather sleazy (the original more than the latter). For the 1986 film, Wikipedia states that a "group of urban explorers are responsible for disturbing the alien spores and beginning the monster attacks." I've never seen either one of these movies, but word is that the aliens hide underground, in the sewers and tunnels beneath the cities of Manhattan and Boston. If you know of any more, add them to the list! Breeders (1986 & 1997) So, for all of you who can't explore the unseen parts of your city, for whatever reason, you can still enjoy it all right in front of the television. To show you some examples, there's a list below of some (not all) of the movies that have a little urban caving, urban spelunking or building hacking in them. There's a ton of movies that depict urban exploration in one way or another, either in fictional films or documentaries, and you're bound to have seen one of them. And for those of you with enough guts, there's an uncharted world right under your feet in the sunless tunnels, in the bowels of your building at work, or in your town's deserted coal mines.īut for those of you who enjoy the safety of your home and the security of our laws, you might be surprised that you have, in fact, experienced a little urban exploring yourself- right from the couch. to feel something they've never encountered before. However, it's almost every human's desire to discover something new, to learn something. ![]() Sure, there's those adrenaline junkies addicted to bungee-jumping, skydiving, motocross, and deep sea diving, but most of these people wouldn't dare to dive into a mucky sewer drain, or break in to an old abandoned steel factory, or tread through the murky and rat-infested utility tunnels underground our cities.ĭespite being around for a long time, ever since industrialized cities were born, urban exploration is still a novel activity with a small amount of dedicated participants. ![]() Urban exploration is unfamiliar territory for most people, unexplored mostly because of deplorable safety and legality concerns that most adventurers fear. ![]()
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