Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

O2D While this movie doesn't have all the typical low budget horror clichés, it's still manages to move slowly and confuse you at the same time. The acting isn't too bad, it's not a constant tight shot and they are smart enough to never let you get a good look at the low quality monster, yet somehow it's still not good. The premise is bad enough. Some guys steal six bars of gold and are prepared to kill multiple people to get away and they have the longest and slowest possible get away planned. The beast is first seen in a gold mine and then later it lives in a haunted cave so I'm not sure what's up with that but that's the least confusing thing about the movie. The best thing I can say about this is that most 70 minute movies are much worse. Two stars.

Wizard-8 While you could get away with making a movie like "Beast from Haunted Cave" back in the 1950s, there's no way making a modern example of it that would appeal to contemporary audiences. While the title of the movie promises a lot of horror, that is not the case at all. In the first half of the movie, the monster barely makes its presence known. And while the monster makes a few more appearances in the second half, it's not worth the wait, since the monster looks flat out ridiculous and the direction of its homicidal rampage isn't particularly well done. I have a sneaking suspicion that the script for this movie was originally a straight crime drama, and that some quick rewrites made it into a (sorta) monster movie. Had the movie gone by that path, it might have been passable, but apart from some pretty good low budget photography there's not a lot here for B movie fans.

Red-Barracuda Thieves in a ski resort set off an explosion in an abandoned mine-shaft and use the distraction to allow them to easily steal some gold from a vault in town. They make an escape to the hills, taking two people hostage with them. Unfortunately, their earlier explosion unwittingly unleashed a giant spider-like monster, a creature that subsequently goes on a killing spree.Beast from Haunted Cave is a creature feature which doesn't play out nearly as generically as most of its peers. For one thing it is a hybrid of the crime and horror genres, which is not something you see as often as you might think. The much later From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) still stands out even now on account of this unusual combination, well Beast from Haunted Cave is a decidedly much earlier example of this genre mash-up. Maybe because of this, it has more emphasis on characterisation than most other creature features too. It even features Frank Wolff as the lead bad guy; Wolff, of course, would go on to star in several good B-movies as well as appear in Sergio Leone's masterpiece Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).This film also benefits quite a bit from being set in the snowy regions. I have an automatic soft-spot for films set in the snow but in all honesty it is relatively unusual for these types of flicks to be set there and it does help make the movie more distinctive. But perhaps the most considerable aspect of this one is its horror elements. We have victims of the creature entrapped high up in a web like thing, in a half-dead like state; this would be an idea that would be repeated twenty years later in Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) in disturbing scenes added later to the director's cut. Furthermore, the final showdown in the haunted cave of the title are genuinely scary, especially so for a movie of this vintage. The monster is a quite unsettling creation all things considered. The film itself is still no classic in fairness but it is distinctive in that it does do certain things very well and so can be considered a 50's horror flick of some interest.

Matthew_Capitano Too bad Sheila Carol (aka Sheila Noonan) was not naked in this film, but she's seen in a bathtub and then wearing a towel for a minute or so.Skiers are terrorized by a creature in a cave. Nobody seems to care much (I didn't). The monster here looks like a reject from 'Sigmund and the Sea Monsters'. It dwells in a rock fortress (cave) where the town's local idiots go to have a good time... I know I have always wanted to find a good cave to bring a chick for a wild weekend, but even Bronson Canyon would be better than this dump.This movie was filmed in North and South Dakota concomitantly with Corman's 'Ski Troop Attack'.