Taking an old shrine back home has consequences for everyone on the plane.

This is a weird one, where I thought it was great on watching it, only to change my mind a few hours later.

As standard in these disaster type movies, the writing believes bickering = drama. It does not. A tone of sympathy drips away and the final moments don’t have the power they should if everyone liked one another.

With this being a Made-For-TV movie, the effects are… not good. It does have a wide variety of familiar 70s TV faces, if that’s your bag.

Chief among these is one Captain Kirk… Excuse me, William Shatner. Here we find the old ham doing a bang up job acting. Of a cast of stalwarts, he’s the best and most interesting, even if his character is a cliche.

What else to carp about?

Familiar story… not to clear on certain matters… yeah, that covers it.

I did enjoy the flick. I might even watch it again, or even own it.

I just wish it was as good as I first thought it was.

A group of bank robbers flying a stolen plane to Mexico find themselves betrayed by one of their number. Chasing after him, they find themselves under assault by… well… take a guess.

After the past three nights this comes as a breath of fresh air. A genuine scary picture, with good acting, good gore, and a plot that is subtle in ways it needs to be subtle and all out where it needs to be all out.

I’ve seen this one before and it still held me in suspense. Great flick.

A group of miners and other souls enter an abandoned mine and find out just why it was abandoned.

Okay, here’s the deal.

Story’s okay, consisting of people roaming off alone into the dark to die. There’s a whole chunk of odious comic relief to sit through, too. A little questionable moments here and there, too.

Characters lean towards irritating, but not enough to ruin the flick. Not helping is the acting sits right about at acting.

The score sounds cribbed from John Carpenter, which is a good thing. And it really doesn’t wear out it’s welcome.

What makes it worth watching, in my poor opinion, is the Strangeness itself, a glorious tentacled thing realized through stop motion. Really a thing to behold.

Now if you really need to see a miner-in-danger flick, either My Blood Valentine or The Boogens is the way to go. Much better flicks. This, though, is a fairly decent time-killer.

Nothing wrong with that.

A group of people show up at a creepy old house for the reading of a will. Weird things happen, as is to be expected.

This movie is on the very cusp of Horror. It has a crazy killer (whose identity is partly obvious) stalking the halls doing his thing. It has people wandering in the dark. It even has a supernatural angle that’s really, really pointless.

I think I must enjoy the subgenre, because I did like this thing, but there’s no there there. Time killer is all it is, and I’d rather doubt anyone but me would seek it out.