A film worth seeing at the cinema.

Rating: 8/10 (17 July 2005)

This film exceeded my expectations. I, like so many others thought that with a low budget and not well known actress's, this film would be very average but it wasn't. The story line was a bit transparent from the first 5 minutes of the film but the scenes in the cave are brilliant. As others have posted, if you are a bit claustrophobic your fears will intensify. The person I saw the film with said he felt trapped inside the cave with the women. The scenes just draw you right in as if you are there with them.
We have several thoughts on the "cave dwellers". My husband believes that the creatures that are are all people who had once tried to explore the cave, couldn't find their way out hence evolved over the years to their environment. If that is the case, they evolved in less than 100 years because the old rock climbing apparatus that was found was said to be 100 years old. There were also hieroglyphics in the cave, which would imply people were in the cave much earlier. The one bit that has me pondering is from the beginning of the film when the women find the dead animal lying in the grass. If this was indeed killed by the cave dwellers then there must be a way out. If the animal was merely shot by a hunter, it would have been gathered and not left on the ground to rot. I am a bit confused about that issue. At points when the attack scenes were happening, things happened far to fast so you really couldn't make out what was happening. Maybe that was intentional. I don't know but it kind of took something away from the film for me. All of that aside, I think the film was definitely worth seeing. It has some scenes in it that really make you jump and feel like you are in the cave too. I rate the film 8 out of 10. Hold on to your popcorn and enjoy the ride!!!!!