Fire from Below (2009)

Digging at a nearby cave, a careless industrialist unearths a vein of pure base Lithium and inadvertently brings it to the surface, where the Lithium combusts when coming into contact with ... See full summary »

Directors:

Andrew Stevens, Jim Wynorski (as J.R. Mandish)

Writers:

Jim Wynorski, William Langlois

Stars:

Kevin Sorbo, GiGi Erneta, Maeghan Albach

Cast

Credited cast:
Kevin Sorbo	...	Jake Denning
GiGi Erneta	...	Toni Nelson
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Maeghan Albach	...	Dr. Karen Watkins
Chris Combs	...	Floating Victim
Alex Cord	...	General Mark 'Stonewall' Jackson
Pattie Crawford	...	Sara
Jim Dougherty	...	Jim Slater
Sue Evans	...	Sue
Carl Freeman	...	Sergeant First Class Micheals
Burton Gilliam	...	Bubba
James Hampton	...	Griffith
James Wolford Hardin	...	Sampson
Dustin Helton	...	Major Darren Richards
Murray Holland	...	John
Sequoia Houston	...	Nyki Hudson

Storyline

Digging at a nearby cave, a careless industrialist unearths a vein of pure base Lithium and inadvertently brings it to the surface, where the Lithium combusts when coming into contact with water and begins to wreak havoc on the country side.

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Plot Keywords:

sergeant | las vegas nevada | ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship | fall to death | forest fire | 

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Taglines:

The laws of nature have just been broken.

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Genres:

Adventure

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for action violence and peril

Details

Official Sites:

Andrew Stevens Entertainment CineTel Films [United States]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

22 November 2009 (USA)

Also Known As:

Fire from Below - Die Flammen werden dich finden

Filming Locations:

Marengo Cave, Marengo, Indiana, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$1,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Andrew Stevens Entertainment, Black Chrome Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the scene where Col. Fielding is sending the team into the mine, his line was "I realize it's risky, son, but those are my orders". As an homage to the two stars of the film and the TV shows they appeared in, the line was changed to "It's never easy, son, but we have no choice." ("It's never easy" was a recurring line in Hercules (1998), and "We have no choice" is a recurring line in 24 (2001))

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Goofs

The hero says a certain isotope of Lithium would, in a large enough concentration at normal or near-normal temperature and pressure, blow-up in a thermonuclear (fusion) explosion. It is contrary to physics as known today for any isotope of Lithium or any other element could spontaneously form a thermonuclear explosion except under circumstances of extreme pressure and temperature such as exists in the core of a star like the Sun.

User Reviews

Another B-movie stinker from Jim Wynorski

FIRE FROM BELOW is a rubbishy disaster movie with a rubbishy story and some very bad script writing. Unsurprisingly, it was directed by Jim Wynorski, a man not known for the quality of his productions, although Andrew Stevens (the actor from '70s fare such as THE FURY) also plays a big part as producer and co-director and has a cameo as a TV journalist to boot.

The film sees a band of miners accidentally hitting a vein of liquid fire which has the ability to react with the air and cause some truly explosive disasters. Cue various scientists as they end up racing around the country and trying to figure out a way to stop the disaster from escalating. Inevitably there's a ruthless businessman trying to cover it all up. There are a couple of good CGI scenes here of the fire snaking through the air before attacking its victims, with the speedboat chase being my favourite moment, but for the most part this is a bore.

Inevitably some extraneous characters find themselves trapped underground and have to be rescued. Kevin Sorbo shows up as the hero and looks tired and stressed in equal measure. Maeghan Albach plays his girlfriend but the two stars share zero chemistry and she's a rubbish actress to boot. Alex Meneses, who is brought in for glamour value, is much better and should have had a more prominent role. B-movie actor Alex Cord shows up as a military character. That is all.