Pointless and Not Scary

Rating: 2/10 (6 June 2010)

The two stars are for the few good points in this movie. There are worse movies out there, but I haven't seen many of those.
To start I'm a casual horror fan. It's not my main genre but I love to be scared once in a while. Unfortunately nothing in this movie is scary.
I won't go over much of the plot. Basically a group of women explore a cave. They don't know that there are strange creatures inside the cave.
The first problem is that there is so much shrill screaming from the all-female cast. A few screams here and there are fine, but you'd think half the script called for screaming. After twenty minutes this became unbearable for me. Nevertheless I continued watching the movie.
The encounters with the creatures are bland and not scary. Part way through the movie I checked to see how much time there was left, and I usually never do that. Although being stuck in a cave seems like it could add to the horror, I never felt a sense of claustrophobia like there could have been, and most of the time the characters acted like they were on a movie set rather than a real cave.
The creatures to me didn't seem that dangerous, and I could probably have killed twenty while eating dinner.
There was a bit of tension between the characters but it was mostly high-school type drama. Definitely one of the worst films I've ever seen, and my expectations are usually quite low.