Crypsis

How do these things get financed? Where do they find these 5th rate actors? What is the budget? $1,000? The scriptwriter must me a 12 year old D student. Horrible diologue. I believe much of this drivel was ad libbed. The actors must have screamed "shut up" to each other 40 times. At one point, 2 guys were laying on the ground at night with the deadly creature just yards away...it is dead silent. So the one guy interupts total silence to tell the other one to be quiet. Huh?? Constant yelling to be quiet when the creature waz closeby. Assinine fighting instead of bonding. Hunting the creature instead of huddling together with clubs or spears. Non stop arguing and screaming. Omg. This one is so bad it disgraces movies. Shameful.

"Crypsis" takes on traditional creature feature tropes. It is reminiscent of "Animal" and "Indigenous", mixing backwoods concepts of wilderness horror. It starts off with a barely convincible start. The story is high energy, and constant thriller. There is very little down time or respite from the action aspect.

The characters are stereotypical, annoying and surface. One or two in a cast is cool but with every character seeming to be a clone of every other then it is hard to connect with them. There isn't much realism built into these guys. The acting isn't all that great either. Still I did connect with a couple of the characters and I enjoyed the action sequences.

The horror elements are mostly done off screen with clever cut-aways and camera tricks. Most of them work, and the scenes with the creature coming in for the kill are my favorite moments in "Crypsis". I feel there really should have been a few really gruesome on screen kills though, the film teases us with the idea but never really delivers.

Overall "Crypsis" never lives up to all that it hopes to be. The story has some holes in it, the characters aren't developed enough to like, and the ending goes on two unnecessary scenes too long. Still there is some cool creature effects in "Crypsis". It pace is quick and the overall atmosphere is straight up horror. This isn't one for all horror fans but I think indie creature feature fans might find enough to like.

Great make-up effects and average story with some good and more bad acting. Watch it if you have nothing else to do.

Undertaking an annual tradition, a group of friends decide to head out to a remote island for a special bonding camping trip together which quickly turns into a disaster when they find the area is home to a mythical creature hunting them down one by one and must find a way to leave alive.

This was a decent enough if strongly problematic genre effort. Among the better features of this one is the rather solid and intriguing setup that provides a way to get the guys into the hunting grounds of the particular creature. Seeing the original intentions of the setup being to innocently undertake a bet that sees whether or not they can survive on the island throughout the night, the group goes through the motions of how to stay there and how to get through the situation, which provides a slew of generally intriguing elements to emerge. That fuels the films' best aspect here with the constant creature attacks giving this quite a lot to like with the deformed, inhuman creature chasing the group through the woods using the darkness, unfamiliar environment, and general chaos of the situation into a stellar advantage as these scenes work incredibly well in the general concept. Beyond this, though, there are a lot of problems with this one. The biggest detriment is the film's immensely flawed and unlikable main group of supposed friends who go through the film never once making themselves appealing or ingratiating to the audience. Spending the first half following the playbook for every suspect friend group shown in these kinds of films with the situation never allowing them to act like friends since they openly mock, belittle, or make jokes at each other's expense, it becomes quite difficult to enjoy their time together. That continues into the rest of the film where the group sniping at each other, shooting down genuine plans to get to safety to argue about nonsensical plans, or just doing the exact opposite of common sense in the scenario by drawing attention to themselves yelling at each other, or alerting the creature to their location. The other big flaw here is the series of obvious low-budget limitations present that end up lowering this one overall. The fact that the creature, despite being given a cool look, shows off a flimsy and ineffective construction involving the cheap costume trying to bring it to life with the whole thing kept off-screen so frequently, it highlights how bad it looks. Given that the near-majority of the scenes in the woods take place in indiscernible low-level light that makes it next to impossible to determine what's happening with everything way too dark to make out, the effectiveness and tension of the film drops significantly during these parts. Also, there's the surprisingly underwhelming and flat-out lackluster twist ending for what the creature's purpose is all about, and the entire point of the trip comes into question for no reason, making this one quite troublesome overall.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Violence.

This is an abomination. You know a movie is going to be bad when it starts off with the credits of cast and crew in basic font with no sound. This one is about a group of insufferable, irritating pack of morons acting like children, go to camp on a tiny island for a night, and the entire film them running around in the dark in the woods, and making snide, annoying, nonsensical, obnoxious comments to each other. Lowlight goes to the pudgy asian dude, who spends the entire time not understanding a single thing, and making braindead comments to everything anyone says, while everyone tells him to shut up after every comment, deservedly. There is no acting, there is no cinematography, there is no point to this. This movie should never have seen the light of day. Honestly atrocious.