Unseen Evil

Man...what can I say about this film? When I saw the cast included Richard Hatch, and the King Of B-Movies Tim Thomerson, I thought it had potential. I was wrong. Almost immediately, from the look of the film, I could see it was low-budget. Still I held out hope. Then I saw how cheesy the prop "artifacts" looked, I smelled trouble. Upon seeing how weak the monster effects were, I KNEW I was in trouble. Only some classic B-movie gratuitous nudity could redeem this film (hopefully from Cindy Pena, who plays a Native-American guide), but once again I was disappointed. If you see this film on the shelf at your local store, RUN. It has poor production, a weak plot, and generally poor acting performances...

UNSEEN EVIL opens with some hokey Native American lore about the title entity. Once glimpsed in its cave lair, we know for sure we're in bad-bad CGI country! After about ten years of opening credits, we're introduced to the disposable humans who are on their way to the selfsame cave.

Enter Ranger Chuck MacNeil (Tim Thomerson) who is the only likeable character, as well as the only one with a functioning brain. Horror -sort of- erupts when the group's true motives are revealed, pi$$ing off the cave monster to no end! Yep, there's a treasure involved.

At first it's okay, since the beast is invisible. Alas, it soon materializes, revealing the full extent of the computer generated ineptitude. If it hadn't been for the pitiful presentation, this could have been a low-low budget version of PREDATOR. Instead, it's terrible.

REMEMBER THIS ADDAGE: If the budget is super-low, do we show the monster? No!

BONUS: This movie does contain one of the most rib-tickling decapitations ever filmed!

PLUS: The "gold" treasure is obviously painted balsa wood!...

i gave it two star because i actually couldn t wait to see what bad acting would come next. or what corny effects would come next.

The acting was brutal and the plot so unbelievable I think the actors couldn t wait to finish shooting this movie and it showed on screen

Richard Hatch seemed out of place in the woods as opposed to his rocket ships anyway.

The props were poor and i have made better cg effects on my old 486

It makes you wonder what the people were thinking the whole time they made this film. Maybe this will be a future cult film ....who knows,

The ending brought you to your knees as well because you couldn't get up to actually watch the credits.

Okay, I simply had to see this since I saw it's "sequel" first (about two years ago), UNSEEN EVIL 2 (aka ALIEN 3000), and I immensely enjoyed it because it was truly one of the worst movies I had seen in a very long time. From it, I also learned that Tim Thomerson apparently starred in the "original". All this was reason enough for me to sit my a§§ down with this "original" epic tale of Alien Terror & Indian Mysticism.

So how did it go down this time? On a bad movie-scale, this "original" is about twice less fun than the "sequel". Does that actually make it a better movie...? I have absolutely no idea...

It's not even fun writing a user-comment for it (while the sequel was). We got annoying people running around in some woods, being chased and ripped to shreds by crappy CGI (make no mistake; it's not as fun as it sounds). But if that's your thing, then sure, go ahead and watch it. I'll always be willing to give retarded rubbish like this a peek, but I can only take so much of it.

I'll be generous and give it one point for what happens to Tim Thomerson. Didn't see that one coming. I guess the producers realized they were spending too much money hiring him, so they just decided on the spot to write him out of the script.

By the way, if you happen to love UNSEEN EVIL, then go watch DEMONICUS (2001). You'll have a blast. It's even from the same director (Jay Woelfel) and its more or less the same movie, only this time with a possessed idiot running around in a plastic Roman-times inspired body-armour, slashing people in the woods. Have fun.

I don't have to say much. Everything is already told by the other users. All i have to say is that this "movie" gave me those rare moments in life when you literally stay with your mouth open. Especially at its ending. It was THAT bad. And thankfully and i didn't watch it from the beginning. I put 2 stars instead of 1 just because i didn't change the channel and made me stay and watch how bad a movie can be. The acting was laughable, the cgi effects are ridiculous (i mean, why didn't just use animatronics or something cheaper if they didn't have money? it would be more real than this!). I can't believe that people actually put money on this (no matter how low the amount), there are much better and more "professional" movies on youtube.