Michael Moriarity and Sally Kellerman must have been desperate to be involved in this total disaster. There really are no redeeming qualities to "The Secret of the Ice Cave". The acting by all concerned is terrible, and the sophomoric script could have been written by a fifteen year old. People jump out of crashing planes, without a parachute, and are practically unscratched. Totally gratuitous explosions are everywhere, spider bites cause sleeping sickness, I could go on and on about the nonsense. To top things off, there is no treasure, and the cave has no ice. Avoid this like you would a rabid dog. - MERK
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merklekranz14 February 2011
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BandSAboutMovies4 August 2022As of the writing of this, one person each has written a user review and critic review on IMDB. Now, I join them, the smallest fan club of a movie that no one else wants or needs to watch. Yes, who was looking for Sally Kellerman and Michael Moriarty in a movie about a mysterious ice cave?
Made by Romanian director Radu Gabrea and writer Mike Werb (who would go on to make Darkman III: DIe, Darkman, Die; Face/Off, The Mask and Food of the Gods II), this movie is essential for those of us who have a David Mendenhall and have already watched Going Bananas and Over the Top. Or maybe you're doing a marathon of the films of Virgil Frye and need something to pair with Revenge of the Ninja or Up from the Depths.
Mendenhall plays Alex Ostrow, whose mother Valerie (Sally Kellerman) is a scientist looking for a rare Chilean spider. They're soon joined by Manny Wise (Moriarty) and his daughter Ona (Marcia Christie) on the hunt for the cave of that spider and pursued by Valerie's husband Victor Talbot (Norbert Weisser) and his underling Frank Hagen (Virgil Frye).
At one point, Alex has to fix a TV for a tribe of cannibals so fierce that they cut off their victim's manhood and shove it down their throat. He gets I Love Lucy to air, but they've seen it before and grow angry. This is a movie for kids - well, it's PG-13 - but it's also Cannon.