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I Just Saw This

posted 9 years ago by chrismackey1972
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I often watch indie horror/slasher films, but they usually suck. This one, thankfully, did not. They say you have to watch a ton of bad horror films to find a good one. I guess I'll be watching a lot more bad ones to find one to stand up to this one.

The screenwriter actually gave these characters a background and a reason to care about them, rather than letting them only be known for getting chewed up and spit out. The storyline wasn't flooded with action to make you forget the screenwriter(s) didn't put anytime into developing the characters Kevin Durant (Lost, The Strain, I Am Number 4, etc.,) is a good actor. I never saw him as the lead actor before, but I hope they take advantage of his talent. He was believable in the role.

The creature was only fully shown towards the end of the movie. They should've shown it more, because it didn't look stupid. It was actually rather inventive how they made it look.

The storyline was fun. The atmosphere of a small town miles away from anyplace is always a turn on for me, but many horror movies don't do a good job with that. This one did.

I approve of this movie. I recommend it to anyone who likes creature features. It's not Jaws, but what is? One thing I didn't like was the lack of consistency with the monster towards the sheriff as opposed to how it behaved with others. It had no problem attacking people in daylight or night. However, the sheriff came across it a few times, and it played hide-and-seek with him, not killing the guy when it had a clear shot of doing it every time.

I gave this a 7-star rating. Enjoy! I did :)

[–] Xavier-1992 9 years ago

Having just seen the movie I can say that overall I liked it, but I have to disagree about the reveal of the creature. They should have went with something far more sinister looking IMO. The monster was so much creepier when it was being hidden in the shadows or when you only saw it's feet. I enjoyed the first half of this the most because the build-up/teasing was perfect and it helps that the cast is really solid especially Durand. The showdown at the church was well done and very intense at times, but I thought the final reveal was pretty weak because it essentially looks like a giant frog with hooves and nothing about it was scary to me. Up until that point and the unnecessary, shock ending I also wasn't a fan of this would have been an easy 7/10, but instead it's only a 6/10. Still better than your average creature feature, but I was just expecting more.

[–] JJett131313 9 years ago

Kevin Durand was fantastic in this movie! the scene in the church (towards the end) where he's tearing up/crying about the death of his/his wife's son was so well acted that it had me tearing up too! lol.

it's important i think that people who haven't seen it know that this is a VERY VERY
slow burn movie with very little action-y type scene until the final sequence in the church. there it gets pretty intense and edge of your seat great.

the only part i can't decide if i liked or not was at the very end where we see that there are many of the creatures descending on the church.. on one hand it's pretty awesome and made me want to know what is going to happen (maybe in a sequel) but on the other hand it seems like a foregone conclusion that with that many creatures (at least 3 more that i counted, maybe more) descending on the church/survivors that there would be no way the people would not be killed. killing just one of those creatures seemed pretty hard to do.

[–] chrismackey1972 9 years ago

Agreed. It was a slow-burn with little action. Until the end, there were more jump-scares than anything else. Fun movie though.

[–] songod-95003 9 years ago

A agree 100% with regard to the end. I had hoped for a happier ending but with that many creatures about to attack and considering how hard it was to do away with one, it seems unlikely there will be survivors. If there is a sequel, it will have to deal with the dozen rangers coming to town the next day.