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First off. I find myself saying this all the time when looking at reviews on here. There are very very few films deserving a 1 rating. But any that are would include all of high school level acting, bad dialogue AND special effects. If you need to know what that is watch any number of random horrors on Amazon. If a movie doesn't have all of those and more it's probably not a 1 and it's very unhelpful to people looking for guidance to hand out 1s because you just didn't like it and apparently it was the worst movie you ever saw.

As far as Gator Creek. Honestly it was what I expected going in (Expectation is part and a basis of all opinions). A fair horror with plenty of clichéd scares and horror tropes But with actually above average effects and acting (Yes the acting wasn't going to win awards but what horror ever does. The acting and dialogue was perfect for what it was and that's all you can ask )

So no awards but an enjoyable slightly above average horror adventure. If you go into it well versed in horror movies this won't disappoint. If you go into it having only watched Oscar winners from Hollywood's golden age, well you might have a problem.

So I have to say from the begining I did not watch more than ten minutes of this mess. As far as I'm concerned it doesn't matter what the plot is or how good the acting if you can't get your characters to look like they come from the right period you're wasting your time. Here it's obvious from the outset the characters have well groomed beards and eyebrows etc and sort of mad max style leathers. Also apart from one they all look Middle Eastern or part African but are supposed to be in Northern Europe. There's a Hammer film called 2 Million Years BC made in the early 70s that conveys the look of stone age man way better.

Also from the start they talk in a made up language rather than English so it plays out like a foreign film. This is fine in a gripping foreign film but I don't want to read a movie that's already nothing special. The movie ends up like a woke revisionist version of the stone age where some middle eastern looking types ended up in Scandinavia (Imagine if it had been white people substituted in Africa!) and after recieving their cool leather look get up from the designer shop head off to ......I actually don't care.

Score

+1 Because unfortunately they made a movie.