A secret, underground movie theater has been running deep in the Paris catacombs .
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers.
And it's a temporary autonomous zone who knows how to exit:
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."
That's so creepy it's beautiful.
Posted by: mythago | September 12, 2004 at 12:16