An
abandoned silver mine in Denver, Colorado
is about to reopen by a bunch of mining
employees as their minds are mainly on
beautiful women as they all plan to have
a slumber party with them on the weekend.
A woman named Martha Chapman (Marcia
Reider) is swerved off the road
preventing to hit a deer and her car is
stuck so she walks to her house to open
it for the weekend and something that
resides in the house making it their home
grabs her and drags her away.
Some of the miners while exploring the
mine discovers a bog inside of the mine
and finds a human skull there thinking it
was an old miner that was trapped there
when a tragedy occurred before closing it
down, but then they see a large pile of
skeletal bones too.
But what they don't realise is there are
some creatures hiding, breeding and
living down there making passageways
leading into residentual houses doing
away with people. The locals call these
creatures Boogens.
The Boogens are scaly monsters that look
somewhat like giant turtles with lots of
sharp, nasty teeth.
Then, a couple of the employees named
Roger Lowrie (Jeff Harlen) and Brian
Deering (John Crawford) stays at the
house with their girlfriends Trish
Michaels (Rebecca Balding) and Jessica
Ford (Anne-Marie Martin) where the Martha
was attacked while two of the young men
who are employed at the mine starts to
explore the abandoned mine there during
the snowy winter while one of their men
has disappeared but are faced by these
evil creatures.
A cheesy low grade
but well done film. It was spine tingling
wondering who these monsters were and how
they can be stopped.
The plot almost reminded me of My
Bloody Valentine but comparing a
slasher film to a monster film is like
comparing apples to oranges.
However, the same fans may enjoy both.
I would advise people to check this one
out.
The acting is
fairly poor but it is also due to cheesy
dialogues.
An actor who stands out is supporting
cast member Jon Lormer because
at first you wonder why he watches these
people as he is the mysterious character
in the film and is an old coot too. He
almost resembles George Kennedy
We also have the typical horny employees
played by Jeff Harlan and John
Crawford playing well off of one
another and can get work in other low
budget films too as they both present
themselves very well.
Many people may watch it for Rebecca
Balding since she was noted for her
role as Carol David in the TV spoof Soap
or for Anne Marie-Martin of TV's Sledge
Hammer as well as the motion
picture Prom Night.
There is a butt
shot of Rebecca Balding after
running out of the shower and a quarter
way through the film on she makes out
with John Crawford's character
and she exposes her breasts.
A neck is bloodily slashed
by a Boogen.
A woman is slashed in the face by another
Boogen
There's a corpse found in the bog with
his face torn up
The directing by
James L. Conway is fairly well done.
There are nice snowy sceneries too as
well as the camera staring at an upcoming
victim making you wonder what these
creatures look like.
During the first attack on Marcia
Reimer's character looked great as the
creature wasn't revealed yet as Conway
made it look like an unsolved
mystery pulling the victim down in the
house
He makes the film watchable with many
suspenseful scenes.
Apart from shooting this flick in
Colorado he also shot it in Utah as it
shows some nice mountains and wooded
areas too.
There's a funny moment with a dog at the
house causing trouble and mischief and
the actors trying to lecture the dog as Conway
knows how to make the viewers laugh.
There's also a cool scene when a Boogens
is dragging Anne-Marie Martin's character
in the cellar and then attacking Scott
Wilkinson's part as the Sherrif
which looks greatly old fashioned but in
a good way.
There's also an interesting shot of a
house exploding.
He has directed numerous
episodes from successful TV shows like in
Matt Houston, MacGyver
and many of the new generation Star
Trek shows.
The music was composed by Bob
Summers as he used alot of cheesy
but creepy sound effects (Especially the
low thumping sounds) as well as
interesting violin playing too and has
done the same for other cheesy b-films.
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