Shapeshifter

Another early Asylum cheapo creature feature, it's pretty much like there other effort The Beast of Bray Road just take the werewolf and replace it with a demon and insert a prison setting. It's full of people who don't react when they die and entrails that are exposed before the monster ever kills them. The creature costume does look decent and there is some insane gore on display. In other words, it's not good or well made, but it's enjoyable trash at only 81 minutes.

First, there is NO security in this prison. Second, the guards have firearms (big no no). Third, the script is terrible. Fourth, the monster suit is ridiculous. Fifth, the acting is abysmal. Sixth, the direction is worse. Need I go on? The guy who plays the monster in human form is cute, though, but not cute enough to save this stinker.

And the jail doesn't even have a phone, much less a radio. And why is the female deputy running around in a skimpy top? Definitely a prison no no. Nobody seems to have the least idea of procedure. The Romanian ex-priest is terrible.His accent keeps changing. I won't spoil this one for anyone because it would be redundant.

One of the worst films I have ever seen. For real.

It wasn't the greatest film but as low-no budget movies go, it kept my interest. It wasn't very scary and there was a lack of suspense. To say there was no talent associated with this film, well let's just put down the hater-aid. AJ Hammond, who played Mohammad seemed extremely well trained in the craft. Marcoux was convincing as well. I liked Ginny's fight scene with Marcoux. I'm not saying there wasn't over and under acting (by some) peppered through out. It's hard to not let bad editing and\or writing overshadow new talent but I believe that some of these actors will go on to "make it" and many critics will be forced to eat their words.

After watching an hour of this movie, I want my hour of life back.

First of all, the previous reviewer really hits home with his/her analysis of the plot, acting and effects. I was immediately shocked how bad and lame the acting is. The story opens up to a psychotic inmate with a stupid pentagram-like tattoo on his chest having a "seizure". He briefly cannibalizes his own arm, where the lame effects show him cross-fading over thirty-seconds into a hairy guy in a Styrofoam "demon" suit.

The most funny plot part is that once the inmates and guards team up to survive the prison, one prisoner seems to be a demon expert. He proclaims crazy theories about why demons eat flesh, essentially to make them stronger, duh, and the rest of the inmates and guards agree.

Most Sci-Fi Channel movies are really bad, but there is something compulsive in that regard that makes you keep watching them. And believe it or not, there are a few of their movies that are tolerable. Shapeshifter is not one of them, it instead situates under the many terrible Sci-Fi Channel movies. The difference though is that there is nothing that has any kind of novelty value or unintentionally hilarious, Shapeshifter is an example actually of a move that is so bad that it's bad and makes you cross after watching. The limited budget really shows here, with scenery that is too small and compact and special effects that look unfinished and jarring within the rest of the production values. The camera angles further cheapen them, everything feels really rushed and quickly headache-inducing. The music bears no improvement either, it is very annoying and doesn't fit at all in the atmosphere, which has no suspense whatsoever. The writing reeks of banality, the story never excites or surprises and the monster is reminiscent of someone in a very cheaply-rendered monster suit. On top of that, the direction brings nothing distinctive or effort to the movie, the characters are shallow and get on your nerves and the acting, especially the ex-priest with an accent that is noticeably inconsistent, is atrocious. Overall, terrible, don't waste your time. 0/10 Bethany Cox