Mine Games

3/21/2014

Mine Games (2013) If you go down to the mine today… A bunch of friends on vacation in the country discover a disused mine and find something most strange down in its depths. It starts off in conventional fashion, pretty looking youngsters head off to a large cabin in the woods and after nearly running someone down in the road, they arrive at their destination but nothing is as it seems. The story then spins into another dimension, cribbing from better movies like Triangle and Identity, only the screenplay isn’t strong enough to make a success of it, even confusing itself in the process. Things aren’t helped by director and co-writer Richard Gray padding out the movie to meet the required run time to call it a feature length production. In truth there just isn’t enough

8/19/2024

**_Ambitious cabin-in-the-woods flick set in the wilds of Washington_** Four males and three females head out to a vacation home in western Washington to celebrate graduating college, but they discover something disturbing in the nearby abandoned mine. Will any of them make it out alive? “Mine Games” (2012) is cabin-in-the-woods sci-fi/horror, but not a slasher. It borrows a concept used three years earlier in “Dark Country” and, before that, an episode or two of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Thankfully, it presents it in a different setting and in a fresh way, tied to the ouroboros, the circler symbol of a snake eating its tail, which suggests cyclic renewal, life and death. The production cost $1,500,000 at the time and is proficiently made, which is a plus seeing as how most

1/9/2026

73/100 I apparently liked this far more than most, probably because I enjoy movies with parallel time lines overlapping each other. Is there really a time loop going on? ...or is Michael hallucinating the whole thing because he went off his meds? Did the ambiguous ending mean the cycle is broken? You'll have to decide for yourself. Not even close to being as good as "Triangle" but better than "Timecrimes", imo, and it's fun trying to spot all the clues on subsequent viewings. -- DrNostromo.com