MYTHICITY: *poor*
FRYEAN MYTHOS: *drama*
CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *cosmoglocal* The same year that director Alfredo B Crevenna finished up the "Neutron" masked wrestler series, he also went down to some famous Mexican caves with some actors and some monster costumes, to make this cheapjack version of JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. The caves make a good setting, and at least one costume, that of a subterranean "bat-man," is pretty decent. But the characters are so drab and colorless as to make BRING ME THE VAMPIRE look like a model of psychological acuity. A woman gets abducted by some monster and taken into the depths of the earth, so an expedition led by a scientist treks down into the caverns to find her. On the way two young guys pair off with two young women, all the better to press the panic button when the bat-man decides to do his hot-girl abduction routine again. I just watched this one and I've always forgotten everything about this dull foray. I assigned the movie the "cosmological" function because that's what one would normally find in an exploration of the inner earth, not because the script has any interest in exploring the subterranean cosmos as anything but a repository for terror-creatures.
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