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Dumb and Dumbest

By Clay McNear

Published on January 24, 2008

The 2006 trapped-in-a-cave film The Descent is sorta dopey, but its albino, Nosferatu rat monsters are truly creepy. The pigment-challenged critters in the 1984 trapped-in-a-cave film What Waits Below are just plain dopey – like, original Star Trek dopey. Still, dorky demons don’t faze the Midnite Movie Mamacita, and our gore-splattered heroine will screen the grade-B delight.
Jan. 25-26, 2008



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