Blood of the Chupacabras

I was watching the movie, and suddenly in the background of the scene at 49:47, there is some guy in white clothes walking around in the background of the shot.

It almost looks like he is walking to a cooler for a cold refreshing drink!

Desperate to save their house, a man tries to find the money by joining a group of locals out hunting a legendary creature known as a chupacabra hunting villagers for food, but when he realizes they've gotten in over their heads try to find a way to escape the creatures' wrath.

Overall, this was a watchable at best shot-on-video creature feature. Among the better features here come mainly from the highly enjoyable second half where it stops dealing with random townspeople and starts in on the search to stop the creature. They're not grandly staged or overly impressive but it does finally get to the community out searching for the creatures and coming upon the vampire guards around the town attacking everyone. These are brief but quite fun as the actual on-screen action generated by the attacks in the countryside or the swarms of attacks in the underground caves that features a lot of impressive-by-association sequences with the vampires fighting and has a solid enough resolution on top of it all. These make this one cheesy enough to be worthwhile although there are some issues to be had with this one. The main problem is the central storyline where it's so chaotic and filled with so many different beats that there's a sense of randomness to the whole thing. Focusing on the issues going on with the residents of the town, including housing issues, unrequited lust, the reporter looking for the next big break and the strange creature attacks on the outskirts of everything, getting everything unraveled here takes up quite a lot of time on these storylines so it's somewhat disjointed. Going for the series of storylines here just leaves so little time for the creature to go out and do it's thing that it's almost a blessing since it doesn't have to show off the usual low-budget features with the shoddy effects, guerilla-style presentation and general tone which can be enough to lower this one.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

This was a waste of time. Unless you dig the myth of El Chupacabra, don't attempt this film. It's loaded with bad acting (by a cast who is all related to each other somehow) and worse directing. Basically, when there isn't any action going on in a scene, the director throws up scenes shot on the water or of the sky or whatever else doesn't have to seep into their (probably) nonexistent budget. Also I saw microphones for the actors in at least 2 shots.

The good stuff is that the movie is arranged well, with all of the scenes having a good flow to them. The indie feel is definitely present in the music, being that they're happy with a synthesized accordion used in many scenes. And, for this sort of film, there was no nudity to back them up in scenes when nothing was going on...which I actually LIKED because that showed that they could keep some story (about a mythical creature controlled by some gypsy/white witch) going.

::PLOT REVEALED:: All in all, don't rent this garbage. You'll get angry that the awesome-looking creature on the coverbox isn't in the film at all (in fact, the creatures are nothing more than vampire-zombies controlled by the gypsy woman to create the myth of El Chupacabra). Only for fans and curious people looking to further create El Chupacabra in their minds.

I can't stop laughing from reading the other reviews posted here. Seriously folks, you need to write scripts or something else but write because the reviews make this movie worth seeing, again.

I rented this movie because I was told that Chupacabras were abnormally large goats that sucked the blood from Mexicans. I was completely sold just from see the word Chupacabras and then when I saw the picture on the DVD cover, I was in heaven.

I gathered my best friend and my boyfriend and we started to watch this movie about a journalist who's publisher husband won't give her any real stories at the paper they both own and operate. Then one day, news of a Chupacabras comes in and he decides to give her the story. I couldn't stop laughing. After that the story got worse and worse and worse. Until we had to stop watching. But I did promise myself I would return someday and give it another go. I couldn't finish Magnolia the first time, either. Or Chinatown. Or Mullholland Drive. All movies that I now own on DVD and love. Who knows? This movie may join their ranks somedays!!! Maybe not but who's to say? I think they should do a special extended edition of the film (like The Lord of The Rings editions) and include the reviews from here since they are really funny.

Long live indie film-making and filmmakers!!!

There are certain events in life that, no matter how ready you think you are, you can never truly be prepared for. "Bloodthirst: Legend of the Chupacabras" was one of these events. Let me begin this review by saying that I love s****y movies. I LOVE them. Look at IMDB's list of worst horror movies ever. Scroll all the way to the bottom. I have seen at least half of these movies. "Final Stab"? Seen it. "Lost Voyage"? Seen it. "Sasquatch", starring washed up Roy Schneider wannabe Lance Henrickson? Seen it. While these movies were horrible, especially "Lost Voyage", which could only be described as "thumb in the eye horrible", none of them could have adequately prepared me for the cinematic abortion that was "Bloodthirst: Legend of the Chupacabras."

Let's start with the pros, shall we? Okay first of all, the cover art was designed by someone with at least a basic working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop.

That was fun. Now onto the negatives. The budget of this film, every single cent of it, undoubtedly went towards the Photoshop software used to create the cover art. I suppose my biggest beef with this film was the complete and utter lack of chupacabras/chupacabra-related deaths. Now, when I see a movie called "Bloodthirst: Legend of the Chupacabras", I have certain expectations. These expectations do not involve 5 random Mexicans walking around for two hours while nothing in particular happens. Naturally, I was quite disappointed when only one person was chupacabra'd, a scant 15 minutes into the film. While the "hastily opened soda can" sound effect did a lot to enhance the juggulating, I was still left sorely disappointed. Especially when the movie dragged on for an additional 2 hours. In which nothing happened. At all. And then the credits rolled. Credits! Do you understand what that means? It means that people- human beings- were involved in the creation of this atrocity. Sometimes I think about what my life would be like if I hadn't seen this movie, and for just a brief, fleeting second, I am happy. And then the world of reality comes crashing down on my head like a trainwreck. This movie ruined my life.

In conclusion, I've added a list of better ways to spend 2 hours/3 dollars:

-Stick thumb deep, deep into eye.

-Make better movie about chupacabras involving, and here's the twist- actual chupacabras!

-Engage in awkward, sweaty, groping session with British pop star Phil Collins

-Track down and brutally murder anyone involved in the creation of "Bloodthirst: Legend of the Chupacabras"

-Kill 200 bag ladies

-Drink yourself into a coma and die happily, knowing you'll never have to witness this heinous crime against humanity

-See "Lost Voyage." I'm not even joking.