Arctic Hollow

I stumbled across this movie when I was searching for the 2018 movie Arctic. Being that I'm a sucker for movies that take place in the snowy elements I decided to give it a try knowing full well it is a lower budget indy film.

I didn't have a ton of expectations but was thoughorly entertained to be honest, haha. It's a monster movie but it's not gory or violent. It's more of a Jules Verne adventure film that has some heart to it. Don't get me wrong it has some tense moments and some jump scrares, but to me it's the overall advernture that kept me intrigued.

It's only 70 minutes, so it's not a long commitment. Again, I love films that take place in snowy isolation so that influences my rating.

This was honestly awful. For most of the film you can see literally nothing. I know they are in a dark cave, but it was in desperate need of better lighting. So you could at least see more than pitch black, and the actors faces.

I have seen teenagers on YouTube do a better job with less budget. You couldn't see the creatures at all. You just heard roaring noises. I think I caught a glimpse of a claw?

As well as not being visually interesting. It was just all round dull. With little story, and dull acting. The concept seemed interesting, so it was a let down that it was this boring. It's the most boring film I've seen in a while.

The only good thing about this movie is only the poster which is quite well done probably this included all the budget The film is weak, a large part of the film is shot in the dark, you don't understand what's happening, it shouldn't even be classified as science-fiction, horror, or adventure To create a good film you also need a script, a good story and cgi, vfx, sfx especially for this kind of sci-fi or horror film and even different settings that even give you the impression of sci-fi or horror And for the adventure category, you need different locations, trips, which could be generated on the computer anyway, even if they didn't travel, maybe even add a sci-fi horror setting.

Just think of the things you could do with 5k. Here we have a movie that is basically filmed 90% in a dark basement so there is no spending on set design, or much of anything else.

The script and dialogue sequences are bad, plane rental is $1500, actors are friends of the writer/director and paid min wage. Not much else to spend the budget on. Oh, the shock ending, $1000 on cgi.

Movies like this should be reserved for a separate part of IMDB. Self funded, vanity projects or Indie categories so that expectations are super low before hand.

Not much else to write here, ended up watching at 2x speed and then switched to 4x. Not much time wasted.

And other such AMAZING one liners for this horror of an excuse got a movie. Like it has been said bwfore---it's DARK. Literally only ten minutes of this movie are clearly visible-8 minutes into he beginning and two minutes at the end. Everything else is just reddish light cave scenes of a hand or a foot, LITERALLY just absolutely pitch black scenes,and sometimes a headlamp shining on the opposite character's face. It was awful,and only made worse by the TERRIBLE acting and cheesy dialogue. Don't even get me started on the lady's father's theory of middle earth,but then it only being 40 or so miles into the 4000 miles to the center of the earth that life appears,and her belief that her father,who disappeared FIVE YEARS AGO is somehow still alive in nowhere earth. Just an all around dumpster fire stinker of a movie. It's too late for me I can't unsee this but you have a chance. Save yourself.