The Crypt
The Crypt
| 15 July 2009 (USA)
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Six young criminals break into hidden catacombs underneath their town and attempt to steal jewelry buried from the "Great Depression" only to find inhabitants guarding the precious belongings. After being trapped in this dark maze of crypts the group tries to escape alive.

Reviews
ChikPapa Very disappointed :(
Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.
Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.
Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
billcr12 The Crypt starts in 1979 with a guy breaking into a coffin and stealing a ring off of a corpse. As he reaches back in for more jewelry, the lid slams down, severing his hand. The entrance to the crypt seals, trapping him inside. We move ahead thirty years, and Perry is getting out of prison and his girlfriend P.J. meets him and three more trailer trash party girls join the get together. Gina mentions an underground vault built in the 1930s, which contains wealthy peoples final resting place. Equipped like coal miners, with picks, flashlights and ropes, they venture down into the abyss. Gina's backpack is emptied mysteriously and they see ghosts. Do they leave? Of course not, they are greedy. Gina removes a necklace from a skeleton and says that the corpse opened it's eyes. A loud rumbling occurs and some of the dead awaken and attack the grave robbers. Karma takes over, offing the evil perpetrators, one by one. Do not waste your time on this garbage.
subbu76 This is not as bad as comments describe it. Regarding the flashlights what is the problem. There is nothing wrong with flickering ghosts as no one has seen ghosts so far. Come on its only an assumption guys. It is a crypt and years back people were buried in crypts to save space and it is possible that the ghosts guard their belongings from being robbed. Yes the acting was something terrible but for that we cannot blame the script. One thing we need to keep in mind is that we are seeing a horror movie which is an imagination and does not require any thinking and not a history movie or a documentary. Also one comment wa indicating two interconnected levels in the crypt one having sky high water and the other containing neck deep. Did u observe that the levels are of different heights.
Mat If you can't afford decent effects, at least have a decent script. If you can't have a decent script, have people who know how to act. If you can't have people who know how to act, you end up with The Crypt.To say that this movie was uninspired would be a massive overstatement.So poorly crafted and lacking in quality, that it's not even in the so-bad-it's-good category.The movie starts with a stupid, over-acting, over-emoting, boggle-eyed grave robber doing his thing and paying the price. This is meant to be the hook that catches our interest, but all I felt was a sense of foreboding at how tedious the scene was.Sadly, the movie went downhill from there. I'm not even going to waste time on further analysis.Appalling. Don't waste 5 seconds on it.
non-shill It doesn't get much worse than this turd. The acting is worse than something I'd expect to see in an elementary school play. The script is about as deep, engaging, and sensible as the lyrics to a typical R.E.M. song.I'm not kidding when I say that this film is better suited as a comedy than as a thriller or horror flick. You'll laugh when someone in the cast witnesses a gnarled ghost/zombie, and acts as if it's nothing more than a chihuahua. Or how they respond to seeing someone killed right before their eyes as if the person had received nothing more than a papercut. It may be the most astonishingly-bad acting and directing I've ever seen.This movie really is not worth even what I've written so far.