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if you wondered what those mysterious human parts were near the end

posted 8 years ago by drhouse (81)
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"Dark, dark tunnels

Eli Roth: The underground tunnels that we reference in the film where priests and nuns used to meet and have sex and bury the babies if the nuns got pregnant are real.

It's something that's rarely spoken about in Chile, but apparently it happened in Spain too. We saw the tunnels but were not allowed access to film there, but there actually are tunnels filled with the dead babies. Nicolas told me about this while we were scouting Valparaiso and we incorporated it into the story."
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[–] Apis (1624) 8 years ago

Stories like this exist all over the world. I think they are mostly urban legends, but occasionally they do find dead babies. Not sure if they are indeed priest/nun babies or just newborns people left in front of the church door and then church got rid of them.

If they were priest/nun babies, maybe this will change now that Pope considers allowing married men to become priests. I personally like the idea.

About the movie, I think it was well made, a solid B movie. I am aware that people mostly gave it low ratings but I think it wasn't that bad. Had some interesting dialogue for a catastrophe movie. I liked it.