A web-covered creature is disturbed when a bunch of thieves set off an explosion in an old mine as a diversion while they steal some gold from a nearby town. The monster scuttles around the snow covered mountains of South Dakota, eventually focusing its attention on the criminals, who are hiding out in a cabin owned by unsuspecting mountain guide Gil Jackson (Michael Forest).
Barring the occasional brief glimpse of a hairy spider-like leg, the beast from Beast From Haunted Cave remains hidden until the end of the film, and it's easy to understand why: it looks so laughably bad that if viewers had seen it earlier, they'd probably have stopped watching and found something better to do with their time. Mind you, I can imagine many people not hanging in there for the final reel, such is the overall shoddy nature of this low-budget stinker, the film suffering from turgid direction, a weak script bogged down by too much talk, and a cheap aesthetic.
Forest makes for a bland hero, Sheila Noonan is forgettable as gangster's moll Gypsy, and most of the supporting cast do little to help matters. Only Frank Wolff as head criminal Alexander Ward impresses, the actor succeeding in making his character genuinely loathesome and fully deserving of a nasty fate.
Barring the occasional brief glimpse of a hairy spider-like leg, the beast from Beast From Haunted Cave remains hidden until the end of the film, and it's easy to understand why: it looks so laughably bad that if viewers had seen it earlier, they'd probably have stopped watching and found something better to do with their time. Mind you, I can imagine many people not hanging in there for the final reel, such is the overall shoddy nature of this low-budget stinker, the film suffering from turgid direction, a weak script bogged down by too much talk, and a cheap aesthetic.
Forest makes for a bland hero, Sheila Noonan is forgettable as gangster's moll Gypsy, and most of the supporting cast do little to help matters. Only Frank Wolff as head criminal Alexander Ward impresses, the actor succeeding in making his character genuinely loathesome and fully deserving of a nasty fate.