a group of friend discover gold deep inside an old mine . but by take the gold and think they have hit it big and they awaken a long dead miner who hell bent on protect his treasure . miner massacre be a chintzy b horror movie in the extreme . you have get all your familiar clichés and your group of intellectually impaired teenager and character go off on their own to investigate strange noise and a few pop scare and the mysterious sheriff and the old lady who everyone think be nut ( play by top bill karen black no less ) and and so on . nevertheless and it do in an amusing and non pretentious fashion that make the film mindlessly entertain in a so bad and it good kind of way . the character and dialog be what you would expect from this type of filmfamiliar and routine and unoriginal . the actor all do a decent job though and consideringi have actually see big budget film of it type with bad acting ( i know what you do last summer and anyone . ) and add a bit of credibility to the film itself . the villain in this film ( the 49er ) be obviously derive from the creeper from jeepers creeper and all the way down to the brown overcoat and the hat and the long white hair . like the creeper he never talk and and be butt ugly to boot . the gore be somewhat disappointing in my opinion . there be a couple of fairly gruesome moment and but too much be off screen and the death scene be often laughable ( spoiler ahead . ) . there one truly hilarious moment where a girl get decapitate by the say villain and and to achieve this effect and the filmmaker hide the actress body beneath the villain coat and with her head poke out and and put some fake blood on her neck . seriously and you could see the outline of her shoulder . i think they could have do a little good there and even if the budget be low ( and i be sure it be and but and still ) . the special effect be cheap but sufficiently effective and for the most part and moderately well do for a low budget film . either the effect guy or the director seem to have a thing for explosion and fire . almost every scene towards the end of the film have at least a couple of character be burn to death ( always film in slow motion ) or something exploding and be it a car or an old mine cave . seriously and hasn not anyone ever hear the term while stop and drop and roll . miner massacre ( or curse of the forty niner and what ever you want to call it ) be cheesy and dumb and albeit entertaining and and as long a you do not have expectation through the roof and you will be sufficiently entertain . i be feel generous and so i will give it a 4/10 .