Superior to its' predecessors

Rating: 10/10 (10 August 2006)

This is the best 'ALIEN in the underground cavern' movie ever !
The first film of this sub-genre, was not last year's: THE CAVE - - no, the first movie of this premise was 1984's WHAT WAITS BELOW, a film that Jim Cameron ripped from when he made THE ABYSS !
The best thing about this scary chick-flick is not the complete lack of male cast(all of the monsters, save one, are male apparently), no . It is the complete lack of pseudo-scientific explanations that you find predominating in Science Fiction .
To be sure, they give an brief explanation, without the techno-jargon !
Good performances all around, and credible too ! No 'I am woman hear me roar' propaganda, that you always seem to find in these 'Alienesque' films ~ they just do what they have to do to survive, no femminazi sermons at all ! !
Not for children nor the squeamish, though to be sure, I have seen sci-fi horror films far more gory and gruesome than this ! Despite what the commercial promoting this movie boasted about- - the 'splatter' is not excessive(considering the content material) nor is it gratuitous .
I highly recommend to all over the age of 17