lastliberal
What's a good B movie without giant creatures? Giant ants, giant worms, prehistoric beasts, and giant beetles. Yech. Yech. yech.If you are a B movie fan, then this one follows the formula to the letter. Family is going on vacation to shut up that whiny teenager, Chelan Simmons (Final Destination 3, Good Luck Chuck). They get an offer they can't refuse (gotta pay that brat's tuition) and head to Switzerland to help some people explore an old mine.What they do not know can kill them. These are not good people. They are after emeralds. There is something guarding those emeralds.So while mom (Angela Featherstone - Army of darkness, Con Air) watches the kids, dad (Christopher Atkins - The Blue Lagoon) takes Colm Meaney and his bunch down into the mines. Chow time for the beetles! I spent a lot of time wondering if Monica Dean (Incubus) would survive, but it was a fun and exciting adventure, especially when Simmons get creamed with beetle juice. (insert nasty comment here).Not a complete waste of time.
stumpmee77
This one isn't too bad. This movie is on the upside in terms of looks; no club med members. The two kids looked looked like teens you'd pass-by in a regular junior high school.The Bugs are cgi but the noise they make on approaching scared characters is a bit scary and such vicious horse-sized buggers.. The plot is by the numbers but there's some actors that make up for it especially Christopher Atkins, Colm Meany (Okay, Okay, yes, I'm a Star Trek fan), Angela Featherstone, Chelan Simmons & Steve Mitchell. The Palmer family is pretty much an average got it together bunch. (I believe the parents weren't on the brink of the divorce or have done so; that alone makes me cherish this film.) The gal is a bit whiny and self centered but in a way that doesn't grate on my nerves--However, I've seen other teen gals in these Sci-Fi channel movies I wanted to give a slap to the face multiple times.Another set of characters I wanted to die more is the greedy explorers/bank-robbers whatever they were supposed to be. If I were European I'd cringe watching this. Except for Meany, the accents are hideous especially the guy the Palmer gal briefly crushes over. Eww, just wanted him to shut up, shut up and SHUT UP! Just a pretty boy. The main jerk hunter whatever was especially grating. Way over the top and yes I applauded the cgi menace for taking him out. Yeah there were stupid parts but as nice, as normal the Palmers were I didn't care. And the "intelligence" characters possess is distributed, not one character knows it all and solves the problems. I especially liked Christopher Atkins; common sense as any human, not a know it all.
Claudio Carvalho
In 1948, a group of miners finds a gallery full of emeralds in a salt mine in Switzerland, but they are attacked by giant black beetles and only one of them survives. In the present days, the explorer John Palmer (Christopher Atkins) is ready to take vacations in Greece with his family when he is contacted and invited by a stranger called Vincent (Colm Meaney) to lead his team in an expedition into a mine in Switzerland. In return, Vincent offers a large amount to John and the cottage nearby a lake and the entrance of the mine for his family spends the vacation. John accepts the offer, and while leading the group underground in the tunnels, he finds that their ambitious leader Marcel (David Palffy) is a very dangerous man. When John meets giant black beetles in the cave, he orders the group to return but Marcel threatens the safety of his family, forcing John to lead the team to the deep location of the emerald mine."Caved In" is a B-movie with the usual flaws of this type of film, such as bad acting, silly lines, poor effects and a flawed and in this case corny screenplay. However, it is funny and entertains if the viewer likes those low-budget horror / sci-fi from the 50's and 60's. The blonde Chelan Simmons spends her time screaming and saying the most stupid lines of the story. The teenager Stevie Mitchell is young and has time to dedicate to another profession, or at least try to study how to act, how terrible his acting is in this film. Colm Meaney, Angela Featherstone, David Palffy and Christopher Atkins have good performances and Monica Birladeanu is extremely gorgeous. In the end, I did not totally dislike this forgettable film. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "A Caverna Maldita" ("The Damned Cave")
devilmonkey_1192
This movie by far was the worst movie i saw. The graphics are very awful and are 1995 graphics (exaggerating). The movie is an obvious script, meaning that it's kinda obvious that its about being in a cave. The whole movie was a complete copy of The Cave. The Cave was good this one struck beans. The actors are not familiar and they did not do very well in makeup, the actors did not act very well to be honest. About two characters actually knew how to act. And the rest did not. I would not recommend this movie. I wanted to stop watching it right at the beginning, but i thought it would get better. I was wrong, it was very dumb. the sets were used a lot over and over making it look dumb. It was definitely not realistic. They did have correct facts but not computer animations. It looks like a computer game. See at your own risk, this was my opinion. Go with whatever you want to do. See ya!
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