Time Trap

I watched this on Netflix, and based on previous experiences with sci-fi and horror movies there, I swear I was expecting this to be terrible, but it turns out it was exactly my kind of film. The movie never loses tension, the characters are likable but sometimes pretty dumb, especially the male lead. I thought the concept was pretty original and very well executed.

The basic story is an Archaeologist going out to look for the old van from the 1970s, his parents were Hippies of sorts and disappeared all those years ago. He has some fresh ideas and knows there was a search for a fountain of youth in a cave. It is set and filmed in Texas, west of San Antonio, using the Sonora Caverns as the location for most of the filming.

When he does not return a couple of students of his and a couple of additional young friends set out to find him. That is when the action really starts. The first strange thing is when one of them exits the cave after only a few minutes, and looks up the jeep, the battery is dead and it is covered in old growth vines. That is the hint, somehow in the cave time slows way down. The cave is a "time trap."

All that spawns a number of other issues and builds to pretty interesting and exciting final couple of scenes. All in all a very different kind of movie and also very entertaining.

My wife and I watched it at home on DVD from our public library.

This is a next level movie. You will not like every bit of it. After 60 minutes, the movie becomes highly interesting and thrilling. It is another level Science Fiction. Seemed to be below average in the first hour. The next thirty minutes is a thrill to watch. It Surprises. It entertains. It makes your imaginations go beyond your expectations.

This film is a true B-film: cheap suspense, poor acting, over the top storyline. And yet I enjoyed it. The story is intriguing as it messes with time, but contrary to many SF- movies, it does in no way attempt to offer any semi-scientific explanation. It simply uses the idea of 'time messed up' to create a sometimes horror-like suspense. Not a waste of time! Rated 8 for originality.

Let me first disclose that this is my first review I have ever written on here. I made an account SPECIFICALLY just to review this movie because of how infuriated the characters made me while watching. Throughout the whole movie you'll constantly be asking yourself "why would they do that" or "why didnt you just do this". The most infuriating part was watching a group of the main characters standing over a dying man screaming that he's dying and what he's dying from, but then helplessly do nothing. "We have to save him!" one of them shouts as they do literally nothing, and then watch him helpessly struggle from another threat. Both of which they could have helped easily. It could have otherwise been a fantastic film if the writing for some of the characters wasn't so poor. Seriously, everything else was great. The ending could have been a bit better, as I feel like it could have answered a few more questions and been a little less mysterious.