It had potential, but got lost with some clichés!

Rating: 5/10 (20 January 2007)

This movie had a great potential to be a really scary movie, I mean, I suppose it's one of the darkest movies I ever seen! Darkness suggests fear, anxiety, expectancy, tension, the strange feeling of not knowing what is right there in front of us; and I think that in a scary movie a dark ambiance is a great way to create suspense to the viewer. So, this film had it, the dark ambiance but did it create suspense? No, not at all! At least for me, it didn't. In fact, I must say that the scene which scared me the most was right there in the beginning, with an intense daylight (!) Yes, it was the car crash! Absolutely unexpected, it provoked me a felling of "wooohhh! What was that?! Three minutes of film and we see a car crash like that! Damn!" That really was a big surprise; the only one of the movie, the rest was very predictable. And those little creatures that were supposed to scare us I must agree with another user's comment which says "they escaped from "X-files"!
The good points of the movie are the great ambiance of the cave, really dark, claustrophobic; the tension created between the girls (the feeling of disloyalty between them, that could have been increased to make more tension to movie); and finally the gore scenes, that were not "strong bloody horror" as the DVD edition says, but were reasonably fine for an horror movie. I only think it was a pity that these "nice bloody scenes" were made by those silly "X-files" creatures
So, to sum up, it had a nice potential but got lost with some old "horror movie's clichés"!