The Raking

I really liked this movie. Has a great scary opening. Some good twists. Actors all did a good job. Monster looked creepy enough for a lower budget movie. Movie had 80's vibes and reminded me of some of the movies filmed back in the early 1980's to late 1980's. Felt bad for the little kid in the opening scene at the very beginning. He truly looked traumatized. But that made the movie feel even more real. If you're looking for a good movie to check out I'd recommend this. Or if you're looking for a creepy late night scare I'd also recommend. I liked how the younger group teamed up with the older guy. I love movies where opposites team up and work together in order to make it through the night!

I don't know what film people watched to give this over four stars, but if it's this then I suspect they all worked on this film.

The story has more holes than a sieve and there is no excuse for it. I don't expect a lot from low budget movies, but is it that hard to write an unoriginal script that doesn't have every character acting like they have had a lobotomy.

In such a disaster of a movie don't blame the actors who wont win an Oscar, but in the main they did a reasonable job as did the makeup artist/s.

Didn't know what to expect from this horror so plugging it in it immediately got my attention because it started off rather good, it had it all. Next scene also looked promising, you know the sexy student and the weird goth girl, yes this is going to rock. But was I wrong. Once after those two scene's this flick has nothing to offer.

Yes, it do involves a creature but it's more about those bunch of students going to Joshua Tree for a night camping and telling each other boring stories. It's full of clichés but nothing works. No suspense, no horror (except opening sequence) no nothing at all. The main problem with this flick is every time they say something there's a break of 2 seconds before someone reacts. Even with bodies being attacked, reaction is always too late, bad editing I guess.

I watched it throughout the end just to see if it do becomes a horror, sadly it was a horror to watch.

Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 0/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

'The Raking' is a horror movie that, if you tuned in midway through, you'd probably think it looked pretty reasonable - for a general B-movie of its genre. It has a high (again, for the genre) definition feel to it (although, was it me or did the camera slip out of focus here and there?) with reasonable acting talent. And, because of this, I stuck with it until the end.

The story is about five college students who take a field trip out into the American wilderness in order to complete an assignment, but naturally fall foul of a local monster. A decent enough premise, but there just isn't enough that's different to make it stand out.

Unfortunately, there's not really much here to recommend, as it's pretty run-of-the-mill. The characters are quite unlikable and bland (although, as mentioned, the acting and script aren't as bad as others) and - naturally - played by actors about twice as old as the teenagers they're supposed to be.

It's kind of split into three 'acts.' The beginning has the students arrive at the desert (bumping into the obligatory 'wise man' who gives a vague warning as to what horrors they may face) then instantly get attacked. The second part is the longest - and most forgettable - as it's all in one house where the characters just talk. Then you have the final bit where the blood starts to flow - and is about the best (and shortest) section.

When you see the monster it's really nothing special. It's a nice enough mask, but it's just a guy in a costume and reminded me of one of the 'extra' vampires you could see in the background of the classic 'From Dusk to Dawn.'

Like I say, I stuck with it because it always felt like someone was going to happen to make my investment worth it. Yeah, the last ten minutes picked up the pace, but, apart from that, I could probably have fast forwarded a lot more and not missed out on anything.

The first scene with the family stalled in the desert really looked promising but unfortunately it was just downhill from there! A 3.3 rating is being much too kind. And all the "actors" were equally bad. There was no real follow thru with Kelly who was taken alive to the creatures cave. What ever happened to the cops who were supposed to be on their way? Very sloppy all the way. I knew it was gonna be bad when you could see tape on the actresses breast during the sex scene!!!!