Mindblowing

Rating: 10/10 (6 August 2006)

I'm a film major and an avid horror film fan. I didn't have any issues with this movie. It blew my mind. You know those films of nuclear decimation and houses just being completely flattened? That was me in my seat. After it's all over you're like, "What's next? What now? Do I go out and live my life or what?" It probably has ruined me for the next couple of years as far as horror films or even movies go. Why would you even go see junk like Saw III or whatever teen slasher sequel with Buffy in it after seeing this movie? It was also really suspenseful! A lot of Hitchcockian techniques were used in this movie. What was so great though, was that before we even get into the plot about the cave-dwellers, the actual cave itself and climbing down a cave, and being in small areas that can crush you, and swinging over a bottomless pit with one rope, or falling and breaking your leg and having to push the bone back in with no medication is really scary. It's scary cause it's real life situations. The movie kept me guessing the whole time. The only thing I think you can predict (but because they give you clues and foreshadowing at the beginning anyways) is who you think for sure is going to make it. If you think you can guess what's next I challenge you. The only bad part of the movie is when the computer graphics bats fly out of the cave. That's not even important. That's nothing. Scariest film I've ever seen.