Creature in the Woods

Especially the end, actually quite funny, and shocking at how idiotic it is, but such a nice payoff for sitting through the credits nobody cares about, much less the entire movie.

The actors were so earnest I felt sorry for them, and it's a shame the film did not have just a bit more humor overall, but there is something almost endearing about how awful it is.

The only 1 of the three actors with any range whatsoever is Nick, the camera guy.

The other two have all of the acting range of a to b. The girl is beautiful, but so ridiculously flat in her expression that it is almost like watching a card board cut out act.

The other male lead is no better, so in that sense, they are compatible.

The story is as predictable as is any film of its type. The creature scenes are actually pretty good though, so to be honest, you could skip to around 20 minutes and not lose a thing.

Another (Blair Witch Project)? I wish the rating format allowed to rate this movie as a (ZERO). Some advice for the writers/directors/producers, "Don't quit your day jobs!"

Found footage in the style of many others; unoriginal plot; poor dialogue; badly acted. There's nothing of merit here. Avoid wasting your time.

Three guys go into woods to make a survivalist documentary. They are all annoying, illogical, thin, pointless characters, making poor decisions, repeating dialogue, situations, decisions, ... it's all appalling. You can guess what happens, what scenes there will be and how it ends. So save your time and don't watch.

The prologues/epilogue scenes are silly - that's a static camera they pick up, not a video camera, so it wouldn't have been the camera providing the found footage.

The early bar scenes have odd sound quality. I think it was recorded, then audio added later. Badly. The bar tender seemed to be the best actor on show.

You can't "spoil" this movie - the makers already did that.

When it ended, I wasn't 100% convinced it wasn't a parody, such was the unrelentingly dreadfulness of it.

Creature in the Woods is an indie horror so obscure that IMDB doesn't even have 5 ratings to give it an average and this will be the movies very first review.

It saddens me that its first review has to be a bad one and I'll be very surprised if it gets any good ones in future, even shill ones as they'd have happened by now surely?!

It tells the story of three friends who venture into the forest to film a survival documentary, they are warned of a mysterious "Wild Man" and advised to stick to the path. Of course they don't heed the warnings and tragedy ensues.

For some reason I wanted to like this. Yes it's cliched and yes the exact storyline I just described has been done to death as have these hyper low budget indie films but it had a charm. Sadly the charm simply isn't charming enough and this falls into the category of just another found footage flick.

The Good:

Has a certain charm to it

The Bad:

One of the three characters is deeply annoying

Nothing even remotely original

The creature looks awful

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

You can't outrun a bear, no seriously I didn't know that!

If you identify that a creature is VERY dangerous, sprint after it

Chewbacca is down on hard times