Crypsis

Where to start with this one, how about don't. Truly terrible acting throughout, cheap effects and amateur cinematography. How this got made, or how this made it out of a college project, I have no idea.

I could do a better job making a film with a handheld, a couple of friends and a night in a woods. I could likewise choose a scarier location and some better lighting, and somehow work the effects better perhaps by using suspense and eerie, extended shots with nice angles. In fact I have done, but I wouldn't let my movie see the light of day, because I know it's not at the level that consumers deserve, just like this atrocious movie fails to live up to any decent level of expectancy.

"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.

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.

Standard monster story about Teens going off to a remote island and then being picked off one-by-one by an unseen predator. The creature effects are great.

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