Niskobudžetni nadnaravni horror triler Nine Miles Down redatelja i ko-scenarista Anthonya Wallera je jedan od onih projekata kojima treba i nekoliko godina da bi sa papira prešli na (veliki) platno! Tako je još 1995. kultni redatelj John Carpenter trebao režirati ovaj uradak! No, Carpenter je odustao i otišao snimati Escape from L.A., a ovaj projekt je stavljen na led. Zatim su se stvari pokrenule sa mrtve točke 2002. kada je glavnu ulogu u filmu trebao preuzeti Val Kilmer. No i taj pokušaj je neslavno propao. Zatim je projekt ponovo oživio 2006. kada su se za njega zainteresirali Olivier Martinez i Radha Mitchell. Na žalost ni taj puta producentima nije pošlo za rukom da projekt pokrenu sa mrtve točke. Ali nisu dugo čekali jer 2008. film napokon kreće u produkciju sa Adrianom Paulom (“Highlander” TV serija) i Kate Nauta (Transporter 2) u glavnim ulogama. Film je na kraju snimljen 2009. sa budžetom od 22 milijuna $ u ko-produkciji Australije, Mađarske, Velike Britanije i Amerike. Pa iako je snimlne 2009., na žalost, film još uvijek nije izašao ni u Americi, ni u Velikoj Britaniji, ali su ga zato Nijemci, Australci i Nizozemci izdali na DVD-u i Blu Ray-u. Što će reći, film se može nabavit…

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In the remotest reaches of the Sahara Desert, a sandstorm batters a deserted drilling station. Three days earlier, radio contact was lost, so security patrolman Jack is enlisted to investigate. The station, originally built for gas exploration then abandoned, has recently been revived by an international scientific research team on a discovery mission, which involves drilling deeper into the earth’s crust than has ever been attempted before. Jack finds abundant food and resources in the complex but, oddly, not a living soul. Stranded by the sandstorm he is forced to stay the night.

The next morning Jack encounters a breathtakingly beautiful American geologist, JC, who claims to be the last remaining member of the research team. She tells how the team successfully breached the roof of a vast cavern at the unprecedented depth of nine miles. Following the discovery a series of mysterious sightings and hallucinations were experienced by the increasingly fearful drilling crew. Violence broke out and the team fled the site, abandoning her with two scientists’ corpses which she keeps stored in a freezer. Although her explanation seems logical, Jack suspects she’s hiding something more sinister. To him, all the evidence points more towards a supernatural phenomenon. JC warns him against choosing superstition over rationality, citing it as the cause for her team’s escalating paranoia in the first place…

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