basically an endearingly chintzy and moronic $ 1 . 50 version of the nifty early 80 subterranean creature feature favorite the boogens and this entertainingly schlocky cheapie center on a nasty and squirmy and wriggle monster who make an instant meal out of any unfortunate soul foolhardy enough to go poke around the notoriously off limit gold spike mine . your standard issue motley assortment of intrepid bonehead hector hard nose mine bos and cute and but insipid blonde babe and feisty lady geologist and boozy and inexplicably aussie accent ( . ) season old mine hand and charmless doofus and hunky and jolly guy and and and arguably the most annoying character of the uniformly irritating bunch and a nerdy bespectacled aspiring writer dweeb who prone to speak in flowery and melodramatic utterance trek into the dark and uninviting cave in search of gold . naturally and these intensely insufferable imbecile discover that the allegedly abandoned mine be the home of a deadly and ugly and multi tentacled beast who in time honor hoary b flick fashion proceeds to gruesomely bag the group one at a time . direct and co write and co produce and co edit with dumbfound maladroitness by melanie anne phillips and act with dismay flatness by a rank no name cast and far mar by lethargic pacing and a drably meander narrative and murky and under lit and eye straining cinematography and a shivery and redundantly thud pseudo john carpenter synthesizer score and and a cruddy and herky jerky stop motion animation wormoid thingie that only quickly glimpse at the very end of the movie and this extremely clunky and amateurish and hence quite delectably dreadful would be scarefest commits all the necessary bad film misstep to qualify a a real four star stinkeroonie .