I love this movie so much

the audience applauded

Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Heading out to a remote mountain range, a team of spelunkers venturing into a dark, unexplored Russian cave are forced to defend themselves from a terrifying evil haunting the area intent on killing anyone who comes there.This here was a really disappointing and highly underwhelming effort without a whole lot to really like about it. Among the biggest drawbacks here is the fact that there's just nothing interesting at all here in the first half here with this one filled with some of the most utterly bland efforts ever to get a movie more involved in itself. Despite it telling the story of the group coming together and how they're in this particular situation, none of this is in the slightest bit interesting as it goes more for their lame back-story that gets brought up every time out and none of it really offers any kind of enjoyment not only for it being brought up all the time but really just dragging out the first half here to excruciating extremes waiting for something to happen, then it keeps getting brought up once they're in the tunnel anyway which is just an utter bore and makes this so infuriating rather than letting it get more of a hold on who they are. Once they're in the cave itself, this one isn't any better with the absolutely infuriating technique of shooting everything with such extreme close-ups in the already- darkened environment that there's just no way to tell what's going on since we can't see anything going on at all. On top of the darkness, with the entire film covered in fluorescent lighting that gives off the look of dizzying claustrophobia by simply making for an overall disjointed affair not getting anything remotely into this one to tell what's happening as the flashing strobe lights alongside the close-quarter camera-shots further hold this one to a nigh- impossible-to-view series of action scenes that can't tell what's going on. The fact that they don't have even show off the creature at all until the finale is a huge mistake as well since we can't tell what we're supposed to be afraid of while what's supposedly chasing and killing them as the film keeps it as well as the actual gory kills all off-screen to the point of not being able to really get the kind of effectiveness out of them it really should've. This all here holds this one back as the few bright spots here are completely drowned out in this overwhelming sea of negatives as the fact that the cave itself is claustrophobic and chilling makes for a superb setting here to tell this kind of story as the fact that there's constant confrontations with the still-unseen creature makes for a fun time overall here in this kind of setting. As well, the film does get some fun out of the graphic kills when we get to see them, but even with these few positives the flaws are just so much more impactful that they end up overwhelming this one.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Violence, a clothed sex scene and a shadowy Rape Scene.

First, there is nothiabout this movie that is a take-off on Blair Witch Project. Some have cited the shaky camera. Those who did are obviously 30 or younger because the rest of us are aware that cameras were being shaken LONG before BWP. If they were taping themselves, it might be different , but they were not.Second - and this is responsible for most of the ludicrous things in this film - it's just not plausible that this could happen this way. Pretty much everything - from failed escapes to deaths - rely on the concept that someone scrounging for sustinance in a cave could grow very large, possess superhuman strength and pretty much dodge or be impervious to bullets.There just isn't enough food available for this to unfold this way. A person would use almost every waking moment looking for food. I'll grant that a person in a cave could grow strong, but not to the point where he could move things that multiple people could not move back. He'd more likely weigh about 140-160 and have corresponding strength. This could have been a decent flick but it was just too ready to insult the audience.

Contains Spoilers Probably the worst movie i have seen this year. Firstly why the cave did not collapse from the bloody screaming (which BTW is nearly the whole script) i don't know, secondly i was laughing when i thought that it may have been Man-Bear-Pig but was horribly let down, the camera angles are awful i think they were added just to take your mind off the fact they are running around in a f***ing cave the whole time. I am really disappointed did expect much but when something wins Fans Choice at shriek fest i was expecting more. so pretty much do not watch this film unless ur into the whole I'm lost, oh no we are running around in circles, oh no Man-Bear-Pig!! oh wait its just a caveman, kinda thing.

Good thing I only paid $1 for this at the Big Lots! What a rotten example of a cave movie, or perhaps it could be said, a good example of how to NOT do a cave movie.The comment from the spelunker notwithstanding, the fact is that a MOVIE about a CAVE has to have more than the glare of lamps in our face to be appreciated. There has to be a minimal amount of back-lighting in order for us to see the activity. Not only did this trash have no back-lighting at all, it barely had any lighting upon the subjects and too often they were shot in close-up even during action scenes, leaving me to speculate as to what actually happened.While this technique is useful in keeping the hideous beast hidden from view, to use it for nearly all scenes is just ridiculous. Those who wish to see a cave as it would actually appear to an explorer, you only need to go into one yourselves. That's reality, but this was supposed to be a movie that could be watched and understood. It wasn't.Do yourself a favor and stick to The Cave and Descent for some good underground thrills.