Leofwine_draca Richard Pepin, a man well known in B-movie circles for his role as producer and director in the genre since the early 1980s, directs this Sci-Fi Channel nonsense about a group of robbers who enter a long abandoned mine in search of a cave filled with valuable emeralds. Along they way they rope in an innocent explorer and his family to act as their guide and inevitably all hell breaks loose.CAVED IN comes across as a cheap and rubbishy variation on the likes of THE CAVE, SANCTUM, and THE DESCENT, although it isn't as effective as any of those movies. The reason is that there are just too many preposterous elements in the story for it to either make sense or feel remotely believable.The main draw in this movie are the monsters, some nasty giant beetles which are animated via some not-bad CGI (for the most part). So far so straightforward, but then the writers had to add in some STAR WARS style laser weaponry which just comes across as silly. They should have instead focused more on making the menace more realistic instead of going down the sci-fi route.There's some rubbery gore on display here, but also a lot of bad acting. The lead is played by Christopher Atkins, who made his debut in THE BLUE LAGOON all those years back, but he's pretty wooden these days. Colm Meaney is somehow along for the ride, but the worst of the bunch is the whiny, irritating Chelan Simmons, whose character automatically drags the enjoyment factor down a notch. A shame as at the outset this has definite potential to be something interesting.

Claudio Carvalho In 1948, a group of miners finds a gallery full of emeralds in a salt mine in Switzerland, but they are attacked by giant black beetles and only one of them survives. In the present days, the explorer John Palmer (Christopher Atkins) is ready to take vacations in Greece with his family when he is contacted and invited by a stranger called Vincent (Colm Meaney) to lead his team in an expedition into a mine in Switzerland. In return, Vincent offers a large amount to John and the cottage nearby a lake and the entrance of the mine for his family spends the vacation. John accepts the offer, and while leading the group underground in the tunnels, he finds that their ambitious leader Marcel (David Palffy) is a very dangerous man. When John meets giant black beetles in the cave, he orders the group to return but Marcel threatens the safety of his family, forcing John to lead the team to the deep location of the emerald mine."Caved In" is a B-movie with the usual flaws of this type of film, such as bad acting, silly lines, poor effects and a flawed and in this case corny screenplay. However, it is funny and entertains if the viewer likes those low-budget horror / sci-fi from the 50's and 60's. The blonde Chelan Simmons spends her time screaming and saying the most stupid lines of the story. The teenager Stevie Mitchell is young and has time to dedicate to another profession, or at least try to study how to act, how terrible his acting is in this film. Colm Meaney, Angela Featherstone, David Palffy and Christopher Atkins have good performances and Monica Birladeanu is extremely gorgeous. In the end, I did not totally dislike this forgettable film. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "A Caverna Maldita" ("The Damned Cave")

siderite I see the beginning of a beautiful friendship: sci-fi recipe films and cheap Romanian actors and studios. I actually watched this to see what Romanian actors would do and, unfortunately, they all did horribly. I can't really say that Monica Barladeanu played badly, given that the scenes with her were either she looking beautiful, looking interested and nodding to what a guy is saying, either screaming. Marius Chivu wasn't completely awful either. Colm Meaney was his usual self, demoted from starship engineer to silly bad guy, while everybody else just played stupid, unrealistic roles and stinking at it.OK, the plot: giant bugs live underground, but they only get out when Americans come near the cave. It's a natural mutation that occurred somewhere in ancient Egypt, so maybe they are attracted to Jews, not Americans. Anyway, these smart bugs realized that living individually, having a normal size and eating dung is not a good way of life, therefore they elected a queen, covered her in expensive jewelry and proceeded on obeying her every command. Come on! There is no plot! Giant bugs, stupid weapons, women screaming, some entrails and blood, bugs stick together for the explosive finale, the end.Conclusion: not even cult status bad. It's a mediocre type of film, the kind of movie where all extras are Romanian, but have German or French names for whatever reason. Stay away from it.

devilmonkey_1192 This movie by far was the worst movie i saw. The graphics are very awful and are 1995 graphics (exaggerating). The movie is an obvious script, meaning that it's kinda obvious that its about being in a cave. The whole movie was a complete copy of The Cave. The Cave was good this one struck beans. The actors are not familiar and they did not do very well in makeup, the actors did not act very well to be honest. About two characters actually knew how to act. And the rest did not. I would not recommend this movie. I wanted to stop watching it right at the beginning, but i thought it would get better. I was wrong, it was very dumb. the sets were used a lot over and over making it look dumb. It was definitely not realistic. They did have correct facts but not computer animations. It looks like a computer game. See at your own risk, this was my opinion. Go with whatever you want to do. See ya!