I love horror films and I'm old enough to remember the great "rubber suit" monsters from the '50s so I was really looking forward to seeing this movie. The sad thing is...it reminded me of everything that was bad about some of them.
The first five minutes we have a beautiful nude woman going for a swim and our first death. Out of the entire movie this is the best part of it and everything goes downhill from there. Actually the first half of the movie isn't really that bad, except for the acting of some Louisiana Cajun bad-old boys led by veteran actor Sid Haig. Haig does his best with what he was given but it's really just a rehash of his role in House of 1000 Corpses (sans the clown makeup). Popular TV actor Mehcad Brooks has the best role in what I think is his first movie, but even he fell apart near the end because of some seriously bad writing. I've seen a lot of straight to DVD movies that were better then this and I have no idea why this movie got into theaters instead of suffering that fate.
The whole second half of the film just falls apart completely. People, whom you've never seen before suddenly show up out of nowhere. The monster easily kills a bunch of people but then suddenly goes weak and can't finish off the last guy. Someone gets shot in the leg and then a minute later is running through the woods, attacks and defeats several bad guys, jumps down a 20 foot hole in the ground and completely dismisses the hole in his leg.
This movie has an R rating simply because of a few nude girls running around and some drug usage. There's hardly any gore because most of the deaths and/or mutilations happen off-screen. Besides some beautifully shot bayou scenes there really isn't much to see here. There was one twist. The guy you think will probably get killed first, due to it happening 1000 times in other movies, survives. All in all I give it a 2, just because I did like the first few minutes, which made me hope for something exciting to come. It never did. My advice...see the beginning and then go next door and watch Contagion instead.
The first five minutes we have a beautiful nude woman going for a swim and our first death. Out of the entire movie this is the best part of it and everything goes downhill from there. Actually the first half of the movie isn't really that bad, except for the acting of some Louisiana Cajun bad-old boys led by veteran actor Sid Haig. Haig does his best with what he was given but it's really just a rehash of his role in House of 1000 Corpses (sans the clown makeup). Popular TV actor Mehcad Brooks has the best role in what I think is his first movie, but even he fell apart near the end because of some seriously bad writing. I've seen a lot of straight to DVD movies that were better then this and I have no idea why this movie got into theaters instead of suffering that fate.
The whole second half of the film just falls apart completely. People, whom you've never seen before suddenly show up out of nowhere. The monster easily kills a bunch of people but then suddenly goes weak and can't finish off the last guy. Someone gets shot in the leg and then a minute later is running through the woods, attacks and defeats several bad guys, jumps down a 20 foot hole in the ground and completely dismisses the hole in his leg.
This movie has an R rating simply because of a few nude girls running around and some drug usage. There's hardly any gore because most of the deaths and/or mutilations happen off-screen. Besides some beautifully shot bayou scenes there really isn't much to see here. There was one twist. The guy you think will probably get killed first, due to it happening 1000 times in other movies, survives. All in all I give it a 2, just because I did like the first few minutes, which made me hope for something exciting to come. It never did. My advice...see the beginning and then go next door and watch Contagion instead.