DIVASGUIDES: URBAN EXPLORER Makes West Coast Premiere : Discover the Dark Side of Berlin on October 18, 2011

URBAN EXPLORER

Makes West Coast Premiere

Tuesday October 18, 2011 at Screamfest

Urban exploration (often shortened as urbex or UE) is the illegal examination

of the normally unseen or off-limits parts of urban areas or industrial facilities

Explore the Dark Side of Berlin’s Secret

25,000 Underground Tunnels Never Meant to be Found

Tuesday, October 18^th at 10:00PM PST

Chinese Theatre 6 – Level 3

Hollywood and Highland

URBAN EXPLORER is a horrifying and thrilling adventure that investigates 25,000 tunnels on 6 levels underneath Berlin with secrets that were never meant to see the light of day. When four young travelers sign-up for an underground adventure through a subterranean maze of Nazi secrets, they are unaware of the horror they’re about to encounter.

They meet their guide at a club in Berlin where they all exchange fake names just in case the police get involved; this underground exploration isn’t exactly legal.

Through a door in the basement of the club they embark on their adventure, eager to explore a place few have seen. They soon realize, however, they are not alone in the tunnels. Not only are they in a physically dangerous, decaying location but they are also in the heart of Nazism, the unspoken shame of the city. The government has sealed off the area to keep Neo-Nazis from building shrines.

Subterranean Berlin is still partially in ruins and all of the incredible underground bunkers in the film are authentic. Daredevil director Andy Fetscher was in fact arrested and put in jail for breaking into the forbidden underground and continuing to shoot without permit or permission.

When the urban explorers become lost, confused, frightened and helpless, an eccentric old man (Stiglmeier) comes to their rescue. He guides them to safety, feeds them, and bandages their wounds. All seems well at first, but percolating just below the surface are rumblings that this stranger may not in fact be their savior. He might be the absolute last person on earth they would like to be with in an underground bunker.

Will they remember the way back to civilization, and if they do, will they be able to escape?

Cast includes Nathalie Kelley, Nick Eversman and Klaus Stiglmeier. Directed by Andy Fetscher.