Well, well, a movie based on the infamous "Well to Hell" hoax of 1989. The title "Nine Miles Down" is based on the English depth of the hoax well (14.5 kilometers) down. Allegedly in the Hoax a Soviet geological expedition bored a hole through the earth's crust, lowered a microphone and recorded the screams of the damned in a literal Hell (the recordings to back the hoax were matched to the torture chamber scene of Mario Bava's Italian horror film "Baron Blood"). In real life, there was the Kola Superdeep Borehole that was abandoned at a depth of eight miles. Fahrenheit 360, the temperature at which Soviet scientists gave up boring at Kola.
So here I am finishing this movie on Chiller channel out of -- boredom? expiation of my sins? nah, boredom. This movie reminds me of "Event Horizon" set in the Sahara. Excruciating at times, promising at others. Watching it with commercial interruptions detracts suspense so my opinion is guarded. I must admit I have seen much, much worse. The movie is basically a two character study, from the hallucinating (maybe possessed) mind of a security officer sent to investigate a remote rig and finds a single survivor, other crew dead in the freezer (a dead giveaway something's wrong), a well where screaming voices may / may not be heard, and growing suspicion of the survivor, a woman who reminds him of his wife who committed suicide. The actress does a good job of portraying different personalities -- distraught survivor, calculating succubus -- as the plot POV demands.
I watched it, I have wasted time on worse, but I don't intend to save a copy.
So here I am finishing this movie on Chiller channel out of -- boredom? expiation of my sins? nah, boredom. This movie reminds me of "Event Horizon" set in the Sahara. Excruciating at times, promising at others. Watching it with commercial interruptions detracts suspense so my opinion is guarded. I must admit I have seen much, much worse. The movie is basically a two character study, from the hallucinating (maybe possessed) mind of a security officer sent to investigate a remote rig and finds a single survivor, other crew dead in the freezer (a dead giveaway something's wrong), a well where screaming voices may / may not be heard, and growing suspicion of the survivor, a woman who reminds him of his wife who committed suicide. The actress does a good job of portraying different personalities -- distraught survivor, calculating succubus -- as the plot POV demands.
I watched it, I have wasted time on worse, but I don't intend to save a copy.