A to Z of Movies with tunnels in them. Rated out of five for quality of underground sequences using the SioloRatingSystem (C). * 12 Monkeys -
A? Alien Nation - LA Tramway Tunnel
*****Alligator - Classic film featuring real tunnels running off the LA River.
B**** Batman Returns. - Excellent opening titles with the infant Penguin floating thru the sewers.
** Blade - Nice LA Subway sequences.
? Blast From the Past -
*** Blob, The - Remake, nice sewer scenes.
** Blues Brothers, The _ Jake and Elwood park the Bluesmobile in a drain underpass and get attacked by Carrie Fisher in some nice Cable Tunnels.
*** Brazil - No tunnels, but brilliant Lobotomy in a cooling tower and Silos as offices. Top film.
? Bullet Proof Monk -
? Bunker, The -
? Brick Trailer shows a huge drain.
C* C.H.U.D. -Crappy tale about Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers. Lame Drain shots
**Certain Fury -
*****Creep - cliche horror film set nicely in abandoned London underground stations. Nice sewer sequences.
* Crocodile Dundee
* Crocodile Dundee 2 -
D*****Dark Days - Documentary about crack addicts living in an Amtrak tunnel in NY
* Dead Zone, The - A brief drain sequence.
** Death Line _ The film Creep was loosely based upon. Cannibals living in London’s Underground. Nice!
** Death Warmed Up - Budget NZ horror film with excellent Kiwi Bunkers.
*** Delicatessen - Junet and Caro's Cannibal masterpiece, with lots of nice sewers
** Demolition Man. Stallone movie. Snipes lifts a manhole and says, “I love that smell!"
*** Die Another Day - Q's Base set in 'Vauxhall Cross' underground station, which is really a mock up based on the abandoned Aldwych station.
** Die Hard: With a Vengeance -
? Doom
* Dragon Head - Spends 40 minutes trapped inside a rail tunnel & escapes through a drainage tunnel.
? Dr No -
E** Enemy of The State- Will Smith gets chased Thru a drain.
** Escape From LA -Nice fake sewers... and Snake Plissken!
? Exorcist, The : The Beginning -
F** Force 10 at Navarone - Big Dam, big dam tunnels, big dam explodes.
** fugitive, The - Harrison Ford jumps out of tunnel, off big dam.
G*** Godzilla - Nice drains and subway tunnel, despite them being sets.
* Good Son, The - Brief, boring sequence with small RCP
*****Goonies, The - The ultimate Urbex movie, complete with Pirate Ships & The truffle shuffle.
? Great Riviera Bank Robbery, The - Supposedly features sewer sequences...?
H** Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man - LA drains used as an escape after robbery.
*** Hell Boy - Nice LA subway scenes and reservoirs.
**** Hole, The - A bunch of spoilt private school kids hide out in an old Cold War Bunker as a joke, till something goes wrong. Feat Thora Birch
I*** It - Stephen Kings book about the clown monster in the sewers made into a tele movie
*****Italian Job, The - Original 1960s Self Preservation Society driving Mini's through a Coventry Sewer
*****Italian Job, The - New 2000's Self Preservation Society driving Mini's thru an LA Sewer and Train Tunnels.
*****It's Alive - Excellent drain scenes shot under Central LA about an evil baby.
J* Jeepers Creepers. Usual old “bodies hidden in tunnels by supernatural serial killer"fillum.
K - L *****Last Train, The - UK telemovie featuring a tunnel and Abandoned station (Mayfield) in Manchester
? - Last Wave, The - Aussie film featuring since replaced drains on Bondi Beach
** - Les Miserables - Paris sewers.
*** - Loop Hole - Crap movie from 1980 but nice drain/sewer scenes.
M*** Machinist, The - Odd Drain and Tunnel scenes.
* Matrix (The) -
? Medallion (The) -
**** Mimic - Set in fictitious abandoned Toronto(?) Subway station. Nice fake sewers also
* Money Train -
? Mr and Mrs Smith
N - O? New York Minute - One of the Olsen twins uses a drain to escape from baddies.
P - Q*** Phantoms - Nice drain scenes albeit fake
*****Plunkett and McLean -Features excellent Czech Drains and Liv Tyler, brilliant!
* Predator 2 - Who'd have thought you could fit a space ship inside the La Tram cart Tunnel!
R* Rambo 3 - From Il Draino #1. Can't remember scenes.
** Return of the Living Dead 2, The - 1987 crap movie.
** Running Man, Some nice stuff when they head into the derelict section.
S? Saw
? Score, The - They use service tunnels to bust into the Customs House of Montreal. Cool looking tunnels.
** Sewers of Gold - Dodgy movie based on a true story.
* Sin City. Snippets of red brick tunnels.
**** Stone - Classic Australian Biker film, featuring the Acid trip at the Middle Head Bunker complex
*** Subterano -Crappy Australian film featuring scenes down the huge Sydney Drain 'Eternity'
*****Stalker - Andre Tarkovsky's classic Soviet film, shot in radioactive wastelands, with amazing power and water supply tunnels
** Subway - Luc Bessons nu-wave film about arty homeless types who live and die under Paris
*** Superman -Lex Luthors Abandoned station condo!
T - U*** Tattoo -Nice drain sequences in this German Drama
*** Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - The Original, bad, but good underground phenomenon
? Them! - The finale takes place in the tunnels that lead off the storm water drains in Los Angeles.
? The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 - A heist/siege of a train carriage in the New York subway.
*****Third Man, The -The ultimate tunnel film featuring Orson Welles as Harry Lime down the massive WeinKanal system under Vienna
? THX 1138 - There is an escape sequence through service tunnels, run/drive/walk through construction tunnels & much more.
*** Toy Soldiers - abandoned tunnels and basements used to navigate bording school
** Tunnel - Horrendous mine tunnel heist film with Daniel Baldwin
**** Twice Under - Features sewer, manhole keys and drain maps... quality!
V** Vamp - B- Grade horror with budget drain sets.
*** Volcano - Nice Sewer Footage
W, X, Y - Z **** Warriors, The -Gangs of New york down subway tunnels 1970s style, can you dig it!
? Woo Woo Kid - 1987 movie listed in Il Draino #1 as having drains in it.
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Original post from Azenis. Watched a couple of movies on the weekend that have prompted this post.
Thought it might be interesting to see how many movies that have included people going in tunnels
Mr and Mrs Smith: Shows Brad Pitt crawling through some RCP to get under a prison to break someone out (great security huh) and also Brad and Angelina Jolie lying under a grille in the road looking out.
Saw: There was a sign saying "raw sewerage" and I think it was meant to be in a sewer but looked more like corridors
Hellboy: Features a lot of underground tunnels drains and sewers from memory (have not seen it in ages)
Setting aside the obvious ones like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Indiana Jones and Goonies, what other movies can we think of that feature good urbexy type sets?