baaaad trip

Rating: 3/10 (11 January 2006)

spoilers ahead - if you can spoil this movie at all...
six (or was it seven? we weren't sure for a while) indistinguishable young women go cave-climbing. who in their right minds would crawl into an unexplored cave like this one, just for the fun of it? maybe it's the sheer idiocy of this that prevents you from caring the least bit, or maybe it's the fact that only one of them is characterized as anything other than mincemeat. this is Sarah, who in the beginning of the movie loses her little daughter(?) in a freak accident - the single scene that managed to make me jump. what follows stays largely in the dark. okay, i admit that it does take place in a cave - but what's the point in having a plot if you just can't see it? not that i think you could if it were a lighter shade of black in there - let's just say, if my disbelief had to be suspended for any longer, it'd get dizzy. one thing did keep us guessing, though - how many of the girls had died already? but this was more like a game to keep boredom at bay than actual interest in their fate. funny, i just now realized that i didn't even catch half of their names.
well, i can say one positive thing about the movie - it was better than The Collector.