Crypsis

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.

"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.

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.

Movies about huge primitive human/animal creatures tend to be similar, but this one in simply a string of scenes from every bigfoot creature movies ever made.

The acting if pretty poor and the storyline is a bit twisted on who is betraying who in luring people out to a remote island with legends of a creature, just to prove or disprove it exists.

The gist of the film is pretty much to see how the creature kills each of them and yet even that aspect is pretty boring since there are not that many ways for a creature to kill people on a deserted island, that has no weapons and no shelter.

It is a pretty poor addition to this type of film and ends up being REALLY boring after only a few minutes into it!

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.