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.

Imagination. Setting. Story.

It's a great idea. It's intriguing. Deals with the inner earth theory with a possible entrance in the Arctic. Hooked me.

It's a great setting. Dark, cold, foreboding. Give the filmmakers credit for trudging up into the mountainous wilderness and getting difficult shots in 4 feet of snow. People keep complaining the film was too dark when it got into the cave system. Well, caves are dark, and it's not that dark. Problem people have today is that they watch films on their phones with brightness turned down. This movie is meant to be watched in the dark, at night, in a dark room. Watch it like that and it's fine.

Story. It's actually got a good story. Two lonely people with difficult life backstories full of regret trying to find meaning and companionship in their lives in the most desolate of situations.

This isn't a traditional horror movie with gore and blood, this is more like a fantasy with a story to tell.

Lastly, it's ultra low budget, and better than most low budget films. If you need a 50 million dollar production with A list actors just move along. Don't pretend you didn't know it was a low budget and then come on here and rant about it being a low budget.

At least complain about the story. Who cares what the budget is? Are movies like this perfect? No, but at least look at what they actually did do on a $3K budget. It's actually impressive when you think about it.

So tired of reading reviews where people complain about the budget. Who cares? They make terrible movies for 100 million. A budget isn't the concern. The story is. I thought the story was fine. 70 mins. No complaints.

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.

DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME! You know, this movie had a great idea going for it. Sadly however, they missed the mark entirely. The video work wasn't great, used a lot of dark scenes. Seems like 90% of the movie was shot in the dark to try and skew the fact this is a horrible movie. They used CGI for firing a gun and pitiful sound effects for the gun. The acting was very...VERY sub par.

Wasn't a very long movie but what would/could you expect when I think a 10 year old wrote the script.

Don't know what their budget was for this movie, but they could have spared a bit more.

When you take into account that the main character/actor has only been in films since 2017 and has 12 under his belt, it stands to reason why it's as bad as it is.

Such a disappointment.

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.