A group of friends get together to try and find one's missing mother who disappeared into a cave... where monsters are supposed to lurk.
Old school horror film that echoes earlier B horror films of the 80's and 90's (BOOGENS for example) is a lot of fun on its own terms. Is it perfect? Oh hell no, but its an old school monster movie with an icky tentacled monster that does nasty things to people. It's the sort of movie that knows what it is and leans into it the way old school monster movies leaned into their monsters
As much fun as the film is once the group heads into the cave, the film has some issues, largely doing with the film's tone and use of cliched tropes in the first half. What I mean by that is the film feels as if it is edited to be a coming attraction, but with longer play in the scenes. Things move along with out a good clip and a slightly flashy style, that looks good but doesn't build the suspense. Of course this is filler, but at the same time we never really connect to any of the characters beyond a superficial level. ( Also not a huge fan of the sequel set up)
Then again it doesn't matter once we get to the caves and the monsters come out to play.
What fun.
A must for monster movie lovers.
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