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The Tunnel (2011)

Australian horror starring people I don’t know but I’m sure are familiar to Australian people as their IMDb pages indicate they’re all experienced actors which accounts for the damn fine acting in this one. They spend some time introducing our leads, their relationships to one another and what’s motivating this trip.

In this case they’re all in journalism.

Reporter, Natasha, has screwed up recently so is extra hungry to get in on a story she’s found.

Queensland is suffering a water shortage and the government were planning to access some lakes of water under the subway. Natasha’s noticed some discrepancies in the official story like when people were worried for the homeless population who had been disappearing recently, having nowhere to go the government claimed there were no homeless people in the tunnels.

She’s further interested in what made the government u-turn rather sharply on their decision to access these lakes.

An interview with a homeless man who freaks out when asked what happened to his friends down there does nothing to dissuade her.

So Natasha and her three crew sneak into the tunnels and find plenty of evidence of people living in the tunnels but no actual people.

They do, however, find other stuff that pings their radar like blood pools, eyeball collections and gibberish whispering on their recordings.

Investigation by the sound guy leads to him being snatched from the next room, who or what stole him? You don’t need to wait long to see.

It’s not pleasant.