I applaud the creators for venturing out into the realm of filmmaking. I'm always far more forgiving of indie filmmakers than with big studio projects, and this is no exception. They had a film they wanted to make, and they set out to Kickstarter to make it happen.

And honestly, there is an interesting angle to this film. This is a steampunk/fantasy movie, without the scale typically associated with such. Part of that was likely budgetary, but it seems they were focused on a small-scale claustrophobic experience, rather than the sweeping epics that inspired them.

Sadly, there is a lot of amateurish craftsmanship on display. The props and costumes are great, but everything else is rather bland. I don't want…

Kickstarted into existence and filmed in mountain tunnels, The Dwarves of Demrel features a solid look, if not a bit dark, good acting and the building blocks to future fun indie film making. I think that this one was hampered a bit by ambitious writing though, leaving side plots and giving us irrelevant world exposition that kind of hampered the story.

That story being a trio of dwarves trying to survive and escape a cave-in that has left them cut off from their kin and the rest of the world. You can get a solid drama for a good 65-70 minutes from that story alone. Even maybe dipping into horror of some sort. Using the impending darkness as a sort…

When I looked at the poster for this and the American title “Dwarves of Dragon Mountain” I automatically assumed “cheap knock off of the Hobbit story.” Surprisingly what I actually watched was a rather intriguing steampunk-ish drama about three Dwarves trapped in a mine that has collapsed. They have to deal with starvation, their own prejudices and vices, as well as an unknown creature. We get an interesting exposition at the start about the politics of the world we are visiting through this story. We also get a mediocre CGI dragon flying over a mountain scape at the start.

It has absolutely NOTHING to do with the story we’re about to watch, so why is it there? Therein lies one…

I would like to say that first of all i am a huge dwarf fan and this movie has made me clinically depressed because it sucks so bad and does not respect dwarf culture at all! First of all the dwarv has a family and kids a normal dwarf would not marry a woman he would marry his ax so that was very out of character plus the dwarves are fighting with each other which is very not rock and stone clearly the person who made this movie is a Neanderthal who has no idea what dwarves are just looked them Up on Google and knew that they were miners and that’s it also you shouldn’t support this movie because…

This is a remarkable bit of micro-budgeted Kickstarter fueled film making clearly created by a team that understands both film and theater. The movie opens with a thankfully brief and efficient bit of CGI assisted setting exposition but then quickly gets to the core of the film - three dwarves trapped in a mine by a cave-in. The narrative slowly reveals more about their characters, their individual challenges, and the nature of the threat they are facing. All three lead performers are clearly talented theater actors and create compelling characters whose plight matters to the audience and whose conflicts with each other feel genuine. The cinematography and editing explores the space of the mine and frames the actors well while…

Today I lucked out in the minefield of craptastic fantasy films over on Tubi, and on a whim too. That's the equivalent of ordering McDonald's to find a succulent Chinese meal in the bag. Three dwarves trapped in mine dealing with a slew of problems. Group conflict, infighting, trust issues, ulterior motive and oh there's a creature down here.

Enough juicy drama for the fantasy types to soak up with a catch that it does drag at times. But even with the slow burn the film's aesthetically pleasing, don't let the bad CGI dragon at the beginning fool you, the performances are commendable along with the script for a shoestring budget and the intrigue is maintained to see if our…