What Waits Below
“Underground, no-one can hear you die!”
Certified Crap. CrapScore 53, rated by 1 admin.
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A military communications test leads soldiers and cave specialists into an underground mystery. The expedition's odd opening and subterranean inhabitants offer some pulp interest, but the conventional exploration pace makes this a quieter adventure-night selection.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 5/10
- Plot
- 7/10
- Effects
- 4/10
- Dialogue
- 5/10
- Rewatchability
- 5.5/10
“The radio test has found an undocumented civilisation.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 53
Synopsis and movie facts
The US military is running a test for a special type of radio transmitter, to be used to communicate with submarines, in a deep system of underground caves in Central America. When the signal from one of the transmitters suddenly disappears, a team of soldiers led by Major Elbert Stevens and cave specialists led by Rupert 'Wolf' Wolfsen including scientist Leslie Peterson are sent in to find out what happened. Exploring deep underground, they stumble upon a tribe of albino cave-dwellers who have apparently been isolated from the rest of the world for thousands of years. The cave-dwellers are hurt by radio frequencies and are able to see in infra-red frequencies, tracking the explorers by their body heat.
- Released
- 1984
- Directed by
- Don Sharp
- Running time
- 88 min
Starring
- Robert Powell as Rupert 'Wolf' Wolfsen
- Timothy Bottoms as Major Elbert Stevens
- Lisa Blount as Leslie Peterson
- Anne Heywood as Frieda Shelley
- Richard Johnson as Ben Gannon
- A.C. Weary as Lt. George Barwell
- Liam Sullivan as Lemurian Elder
- Jackson Bostwick as Hunter Prime
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