A
young boy named Willy (Chris Miller)
lives with his father Mance (Patrick
Kilpatrick), stepmother Emily (Suzanne
Savoy) and baby half sister.
Mance one time goes to the cellar to hear
some growling sounds down there and
becomes afraid of what might be down
there but is scared that his son won't
love him if he shows his fear so he
shrugs it off but his son realises that
his floor nearly broke open and also
enounters a deadly monsterous hand that
nearly grabbed him at a small lagoon
where he is playing but no one believes
his stroy so he tries to find a way to
trap this monster.
Well one of the locals that once lived at
that house by the name of T.C. (Ford
Rainey) tells Willy about his childhood
experience on what lurked in the cellar
and tries to give Willy a rabbits foot
for good luck and to ward off the monster
and a local native indian by the name of
Cheif Sam John (Michael Wren) also tries
to help the family out but Mance tried to
ward them off saying that nothing is down
in the cellar.
However, deadly incidents starts to
happen with the people around them and
Willy must try and battle this creature
out himself whatever it takes.
A film made on
quite a low budget but overall a campy
fun monster horror flick of every child's
fear of a monster lurking in a dark
cellar.
The effects looked not too bad for the
budget this film carried and nice shots
on the desert land too.
Also a good look on a father and son
relationship too which was a labour of
love and trying not to be afraid of
things that go bump in the night.
The acting is
failry descent but not Academy award
winning. Still it's above average. Lead
actor Patrick Kilpatrick seems
to pull off his part well as a southern
type cowboy father trying to be
protective and brave and great with his
intensity as well.
Suzanne Savoy made a perfect
motherly type of character trying to
sympathise on the issues going on.
Young actor Chris Miller as the
heroic and vengeful son is a little rough
with some spots of his performance but
still carries through at other times.
Ford Rainey seemed to pull off his
role well as an eccentric old coot and
does well with his superstitions to bring
good luck due to the dangers of the house
and cellar.
Michael Wren seems to perform well
as the native indian and trying to be
powerful about what is going on.
There's a supporting role by Lou
Perry who lived to play a jack ass
redneck businessman as he stands out well
with his part more so than in Texas
Chainsaw Massacre 2.
Two fingers are
cut off
A monsters paw is chewed off
Other than that the gore is PG
Kevin S.
Tenney does a nice job on this one
after his follow up to Night of
the Demons as he shows a nice
beginning in the desert with some good
shots on it.
There's a nice moment with young actor Chris
Miller looking frightened from his
bed after seeing something.
There's also a nice moment with
Miller and Patrick
Kilpatrick wrestling together like a
father and son relationship and suddenly
a lizard zooms by which is a surprise
shot.
There's a nice dark setting with Kilpatrick
in the cellar checking stuff out and a
good shot on some bubbly water as he
reacts well to being scared.
Miller reacts very well to being
scared stiff ater seeing his lizard crawl
under the doorway to the cellar.
There's a good shot on Miller
swinging on a tire tied to a tree and a
little lagoon of water underneath him.
There's a good closeup shot on a
monstrous hand grabbing the tire which
looked creepy and Miller does
well trying to escape and a good shot of
a branch nearly breaking.
We have a good dialogue with supporting
actor Lou Perry acting like a
jack ass about what was told and Kilpatrick
telling him off.
There's a nice dialogue scene on Ford
Rainey and Miller doing
target practice with a gun and Rainey
really knew how to get into
character when he told about what had
happened there showing a flashback with
him narrating it.
There's a good shot on a tower exploding
and being caught on fire and a young
supporting actor Steven Suggs
shouting in terror with all this
happening.
There's a good moment with Miller
setting up some booby traps and the
camera from a tunnel in the attic pans in
on him and a great shot on the monster
attacking.
A perfect shot on Michael Wren
holding an indian spear doing a chant by
a bonfire.
We have a good and strong dialogue
between Wren and Miller as
there's some aggressiveness, reasonable
conversations and some frights too.
A nice moment on supporting actor Irv
Gorman teasing Miller's
character and falls into the lagoon. Gorman
looked good struggling trying to get out
and the creature dragging him in but his
energy is low when he screams.
Perry really knew how to get
aggressive and demanding to find out what
happened to his son.
Kilpatrick really was perfect with
his direction by acting intense and
aggressive towards Miller when
he demands some explanations out of him
and Suzanne Savoy does a great
job trying to stand up to him and act
defending.
There's a real intense dialogue between
Kilpatrick and Savoy in a
room together screeching at one another.
A nice shot on the monster crawling into
the house.
A good shot on Kilpatrick jumping
out of the water of the lagoon trying to
reach land but having a rough time and a
perfect shot on the monster being stabbed
by a speare.
Good shot effects on the lagoon and house
exploding.
We have excellent
guitar riffs during the opening and
closing credits of the film, some good
ole native indian type music and some
cheesy synthesizer playing all composed
by Will Sumner
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