Review: Time Trap

During Tropical Storm Imelda when there wasn’t much to do except listen to the rain fall, Darling Hubby and I watched a few movies on Netflix and Amazon Prime.

Time Trap was a new release on Netflix, but it’s also available to rent on Amazon Prime.

The Story

Released November 2, 2018, Time Trap is about an archaeology professor who disappears after leaving to explore a caves in a remote area of Texas.

Several of his grad students begin to search for him and become trapped inside a mysterious cave.

Filming Locations

Actually, I wasn’t surprised to learn the movie was filmed in the Austin, Texas, area as well as in some of the caves in the Sonora area of Texas.

Additional filming was done in Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park, in Los Angeles, and also in Trona, California.

Trona is an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County that’s at the western edge of Searles Lake, a dry lake bed in Searles Valley, southwest of Death Valley.

(The town was named for the mineral which is mined in the lakebed. Trona is a common source of soda ash, which is used in manufacturing glass, chemicals, paper, detergents, and textiles. It is used to remove sulfur from both flue gases and lignite coals.)

You might be interested to know that dozens of movies and TV episodes have been filmed in and around Trona going back to the 1960′s—movies like Planet of the Apes in 2001, Holes in 2003, Land of the Lost in 2009, and Westworld episodes.

Cast and Crew

Directed and Produced by Ben Foster and Mark Dennis, this action SF film has a cast that’s set to appeal to young adults.

Andrew Wilson as the Professor shows some emotional depth even though he’s not on screen that much.

• Andrew Wilson as Hopper
• Cassidy Gifford as Cara
• Brianne Howey as Jackie
• Reiley McClendon as Taylor
• Olivia Draguicevich as Veeves
• Max Wright as Furby.

My Thoughts

You may know from the title what this movie is about, but there are some surprises as the narrative unfolds.

I think the movie will keep you interested and entertained. The ending, even though it’s a bit too tidy a wrap-up, does have an interesting twist that you probably won’t see coming.

Takeaway Truth

Time Trap is entertaining and worth watching so give it a view.