What a wasted concept...

Rating: 5/10 (23 June 2018)

This movie had potential to be great. I thought the premise was very intruiging: a group of women get lost while spelunking and come to discover they're being hunted by humanoid monsters. The problem is the director/writer had no idea how to create tension so the most important aspect of this movie, the horror, is left up to jump scares, and not effective ones at that. Not surprisingly, the creatures don't even show up until the halfway point, because the creator clearly couldn't come up with more than 40 minutes of being hunted by monsters. As it is, it gets repetitive after 5 minutes. On top of that, it has the most unlikeable protagonist, Sarah, I've seen in quite awhile. Her character is subject to the worst of horror movie cliches, by making idiotic decisions no real person would make, all for the sake of setting up an obvious scare. What's even more suprising, is that the secondary character, Juno, was far more interesting, and was by far the stand out of the movie. If you want to see a good psychological thriller about a group of women exploring the unknown, go watch Annihilation. If you want to see a tense horror movie about blind creatures that hunt by sound, go see A Quiet Place. Either of those movies has far more to offer in terms of unsettling horror, well executed jump scares when logical, and superior characters with understandable motivations. Stay clear of this movie!