Under the Mountain

"An epic journey to save the world..."

Dec 10 2009 PG-13 1h 30m
Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Teenage twins battle dark forces hidden beneath Auckland's volcanoes.

Plot

After their mother dies, teen twins Rachel and Theo are sent to live with relatives in Auckland, where they come across three alien races. The seven shapeshifting Wilberforces love all things rotten and seek to lay waste all of Earth through the power of the seven Gargantua, enormous slug-like creatures trapped, one apiece, under Auckland's seven volcanoes but soon to free themselves. Mr. Jones is an alien too, the surviving twin of a pair come to use their fire powers on the other aliens. Only twins can unleash the firepower from a set of magic stones, but after failure with a previous set of twins, Jones hasn't much hope for Rachel and Theo, though he doesn't know they can tele-communicate with each other.

Written by

Matthew Grainger, Jonathan King, Maurice Gee

Directed by

Jonathan King

Production Countries

New Zealand

Production Companies

Index Films

Languages

English

Awards

3 wins & 5 nominations total

Scores
# of Votes
2,268
Average Rating
4.8 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA