FrightFest Glasgow review – Bone Keeper
Writer/director Howard J. Ford turns his attention to a straight-up monster movie. After a prehistoric prologue featuring a meteor, cavepeople and tentacles, the story kicks off with Olivia (Sarah Alexandra Marks) troubled by the disappearances of several family members in the same caves in separate incidents over decades. A cameo mad prof (John Rhys-Davies) has theories and a pub full of gits do their best to be ominous, then Olivia and her minimally-characterised search party go underground and – after some wittering – mostly get got. It’s very basic, with an all-devouring monster which seems ugly for all the wrong reasons – we see a lot of the thing and it has a CGI sheen which makes it a lot less appealing a cave monster than, say, the barely-glimpsed critters in The Boogens or the papier mache Venusian turnip in It Conquered the World. I suppose the pitch was The Descent Meets Tremors but the doomed characters are too perfunctory to get involved with – their squabbles and flirtatations just take up time – and the Bone Keeper attacks aren’t too special either. Marks, a busy low budget genre leading lady who was great in Witch, doesn’t get much to work with but at least isn’t actively irritating.
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