It Came From Below (2021) - The Descent did it better

Wow, there's really not that much to say about this low budget horror film - I guess you could sum it up with the phrase 'four teenagers run round in the dark.' I don't mind that a movie doesn't have a colossal special effects budget or no well-known actors, but the one thing a film has to be is entertaining.  And this isn't.

A girl's dad gets murdered while caving in England.  Before he dies in hospital he tells her that he saw monsters down there.  Now she's a teenager, she wants to go and see what killed him.  She takes three other 'friends' along for the ride, but one of them seems to hate her, so maybe I missed the bit about why the other girl came with the party (the dialogue was kind of muffled here and there!).

With such a small cast you won't see a major 'pile up' of bodies until the final act.  The film's short, but feels a damn sight longer.  The teens just run around in near darkness while something - probably - chases them.  Rinse and repeat.  When a nasty does finally off one of them any gore and special make-up effects are minimalised by the use of 'shaky-cam' to help disguise just how low budget everything really is.

'The Descent' was made years ago and yet still holds up to this day.  It may never be in line for any Oscars, but it's a classic of the genre, whereas this one should just be left buried wherever in England it's supposed to take place.  Avoid.

4/10 You can watch this film while you're doing the ironing (you'll still get the general gist of it)