Review – Grim

When they were questing around for an adjective to use as the title for this outing, they probably should have gone with “Cheap.” Or perhaps “Boring.” Or maybe just plain ol’ “Stupid.” The story – to the extent that there is one – centers around a big rubber monster that lives in some caves below a housing development. If I understood the beginning of the movie correctly, the thing was somehow brought to life by a seance or something like that. Once revived, the latex baddie goes on the rampage, sucking people right out of their living rooms and carting them off to his underground lair. Unaware of the specific nature of the problem, a group of disgruntled landowners goes spelunking. And on and on the cave exploration goes, occupying endless minutes of thoroughly uninteresting screen time. Bad thing is, even after the hapless victims run up against the vicious monster, the movie doesn’t get radically more interesting. I guess I’ve seen worse “attack of the men in rubber suits” movies, but at the moment no examples are coming to mind. See if desperate