Blood of the Chupacabras

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 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 movie stinks. I could shoot a better movie with a group of friends, a portable video camera, fake blood, and no script. It is a waste of money to rent and a waste of time to watch. Paint peeling is more interesting. Not only are the actors unknown but they are bad at what they do. I couldn't finish watching it. I wanted to turn it off 3 minutes into the film but thought the monster would be awesome. Well, it wasn't so I turned the DVD off. The monster doesn't look anything like what is pictured on the cover. In fact it looks like a guy in a green scuba suit. The Halloween costumes at Party City are of better make and quality. How it got onto a stores shelves let alone manufactured I will never know.

I'll start with the good. Please note that the "good" doesn't actually have anything to do with the movie. The Chupacabra legend is a great idea, and like a few other reviewers, I'd hope that some day a good movie maker would utilize the legend of the Chupacabra good.

OK, that being said, everything in this movie made me want to rake my face with broken glass, just so that something fun would be going on while the movie played. First off, the acting is like something out of a high school media class project. I mean, adult film stars would watch this and say "whoa, does that suck!"

The editing is also horrible, whacking every "scare" scene so that they become confusing, FX-less messes. This movie is more badly slashed than the cast of a "Friday the 13th" movie.

Further adding to the confusion is the fact that within its running time of 85 minutes, we are introduced to so many characters, it's like we need a chart to keep track of them.

Then we get to the big ending, in which all the characters go to hunt this legendary beast, and somehow everyone ends up in a mine (that was on a treasure map). We don't learn what happens to most of the characters, and we find out that the Chupacabra is some sort of bad CG vampire thingy. That turns its victims into attack zombies...

HUH?

Horrible- stay away from it.