The Devil Below, Monsters in a Mine

Okay...I know...so the sultry Alicia Sanz is mis-cast.  Hey!  She's a babe and looks really good.  So what is so wrong about some nice cleavage in a film that takes place in a mine with monsters all around.  So, there!  In a role probably made for Jason Statham...Alicia Sanz does a fine job...and looks really good throughout.  Today we look at a neat creature film, 2021's "The Devil Below" (aka "Shookum Hills"), directed by Bradley Parker.

Back in the 70s the mining town of Shookum Hills disappeared.  All 1,000 residents...gone!  What happened.  There was a monster involved.  Now Darren (Adan Canto) leads a scientific team back to the mine to find out.  His sultry guide/mercenary/soldier of fortune Arianne (Sanz) will find the mine for them.  The surrounding locals don't want them there.  Especially Schuttman (Will Patton), who had his son taken by mine monsters back in the 70s.  The locals know what is down there and Darren's team is about to find out.

Arianne finds the mine and as soon as the team lowers into it...horror strikes.  There are things down in there that have been kept down there by the locals.  Now the team has unwittingly opened the mine.  One by one the team members are taken by the things.  Ugly and ferocious things.  The locals send in their own team to contain the breach...this won't go well.  Now Darren's team and the local team must work together...the monsters don't care.  To the fiends, teamwork just means more humans to eat or...well, you'll see.  Arianne will sweat and look really good down in the underground caverns.  Even worse, she will find out first hand what these monsters are and what they do to the humans they grab.

Will Arianne and any of her team get out of the mine alive?  What do the monsters do with the humans they grab?  Is the Biden Administration's federal cuts for mining in Appalachia a cause of the human death and destruction occurring in Shookum Hills?  This is a terrific creature film.  Ms. Sanz is sultry and the monsters are icky and terrifying.  See "The Devil Below," a perfect Friday night creature flick.