Most of this involves going down caves and location filming helps immensely (even if apparently in real life the crew were knocked out by poisoning when a generator busted). It looks fantastic. For the most part it is very creepy and there's some solid actors like Tim Bottoms, Anne Heywood and Richard Johnson helping.
When we meet the creatures they do seem a little silly like the Morlocks in The Time Machine. They would have been better off keeping these in darkness as much as possible. Still they are scary antagonists.
The spunky young female lead as a great feisty intro but then later on throws herself at Powell and of course she gets captured and needs to be rescued.
But this is an entertaining film. I think Don Sharp directs well.
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