The guy is a complete ass clown and seems to be so for no other reason than bad screenwriting and as I said, I’ve seen too many similar characters in Sci-Fi Channel movies. They’re trapped over a thousand feet underground with monstrous insects stalking them and all he can think about is getting to the emeralds and keeps coming close to murdering the only person (Atkins) who can potentially get them out of this situation alive. They’re outnumbered by beetles and he still decides to go ahead and kill off another guy just out of spite. He doesn’t want them to blow their cover and yet he murders one of his own men after a squabble and tries to pass it off as an accident. I don’t know if there’s some unwritten rule to include a human villain who constantly sabotages his own agenda through sheer idiotic villainy. Marcel is the kind of dumb ass villain type that keeps popping up in Sci-Fi Channel movies. Mom eventually comes across a dead body the bad guys conveniently left in a place where anyone could come across it, and Atkins finally learns the truth after Marcel, the hot-headed grandson of the original mine survivor starts killing off his own people. Meanwhile, their adolescent son Miles follows the group down into the mine, even after being forbidden to tag along. While Atkins leads the group into the mine, the rest of the family stays atop so the daughter can start making googly eyes at cute young member of the group while mom does her best to keep nature from taking its course. Thank goodness they did because laser guns are a giant prehistoric rhinoceros beetles worst enemy.
He doesn’t even bat an eye when they unveil the state of the art laser rifles they plan to use to blast through some of the rocks. Off to Switzerland the family goes where he meets up with the rest of the group and still he doesn’t think anything is suspicious, despite the group looking like a ragtag bunch of Eastern European nogoodnicks. This decision doesn’t sit too well with his family who he had promised a vacation, especially his spoiled teen daughter who hates her daddy’s occupation as she astutely proclaims at one point, “I don’t wanna be a tour guide for bored rich people. Atkins suspects something just isn’t right about the offer but cannot resist the big money they’re offering. Up to modern times where a very aged looking Christopher Atkins is introduced as the world’s foremost spelunker who gets recruited by a group looking to survey the Swiss mine led by “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”‘s Colm Meaney in what has got to be the low point of his career.
#Prehistoric rhinoceros beetle movie#
I found this especially disheartening knowing that the movie was directed by Rick Pepin, a guy who made quite a few choice direct-to-video b-action movies back in the mid-90s. It a shame that after this solid opening sequence everything turns quite tedious for the next 45 minutes until the beetles finally re-emerge. Only one person makes it out of the mine alive just before a dying miner sets off some dynamite causing it to cave in. Before they can celebrate their discovery, large prehistoric beetles show up and begin slaughtering everyone. They should have made it about giant prehistoric stink beetles because the movie sure does stink.Ĭaved In: Prehistoric Terror starts decently enough, with a short prologue sequence where miners inadvertently unearth a chamber containing a fortune in precious emeralds in 1947 Switzerland. So I went into the film with incredibly low expectations, which really is the most logical way anyone should go into a Sci-Fi Channel movie, and it pretty much lived up to what I suspected. If I didn’t know better I’d wonder if maybe the Sci-Fi Channel didn’t want to people to tune in to see this film by loading the promos with shots of some of the worst CGI imaginable.
I’m used to Sci-Fi Channel movies with bad CGI, but yikes. Then I saw the first commercial for it and my anticipation plummeted like Kong falling off the Empire State Building. The prospects of a cheesy monster movie about people trapped in a cave being stalked by huge prehistoric rhinoceros beetles actually excited me.
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