The Unfortunate

Traveling through the desert to Las Vegas, a group of friends decide to stop off at a tourist spot in the area and go exploring for gold which allows the group to begin acting weird alerting them to the possibility that the stories involving the ghosts haunting the area might be true.

Overall, this is a decent enough genre effort. One of the better elements here is the rather fun setup that brings everyone together into the environment and encounters the various beings. Starting nicely with the initial setup of the group traveling through the desert on their way to a convention stopping to talk at the tourist pit which introduces them to the idea of the ghosts haunting the specific area where they're sent to prospect for gold for fun, this all provides a fine way to get everyone together in the middle of nowhere as they are. As we get enough of their tastes and backstories along the way which provides the kind of fine intermingling setups involving the group being led astray and forced into trying to scour the local woods to find a way out but find themselves increasingly coming into the influence of the area, this early setup here is quite enjoyable and provides quite a lot to like. With this setup established, the fantastic series of hauntings focused on the ghosts trying to torment and play with the group provides some more suspenseful sequences than expected. The first half featuring the slew of strange occurrences around the woods and the groups' unnatural behavior toward each other are fine examples of the way this one changes the way the beings interact with others since it's all psychological building up to their physical manifestations in the second half. These later scenes are far more creepy and chilling than expected, offering the kind of showcase setpieces where the ghosts' completely chilling appearance starts making more of an impact as things start to turn into possession-style hauntings where the victims are taken over and forced to experience visions from the ghosts. This combination allows for some fun times here and gives the film a lot to like that holds it up although there are some issues to bring this one down. Among its few problems is a convoluted and somewhat confusing finale that has a lot going on that doesn't make much sense. While the action presented in most of this one manages to be enjoyable enough for what's going on, the fact that so much of the action here tends to come about due to the film skipping around between keeping the action in the present and the ghosts' human forms in the past acting out the activity that got them killed in the first place. It's all jumbled together in a way that gives everything such a chaotic mindset that didn't need to occur since the rest of the film had been pretty obvious about what was going on. In addition to this, the low-budget origins of the film are somewhat obvious and can be a really big factor against this one where it looks and feels pretty flimsy as a result, holding this one down overall.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Violence.

Watching the great "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon." This movie, "Creek" came on immediately after Yellow Ribbon, automatically, and was to lazy to get up and get the remote. I went from rodeo champion, horse master, oscar winner in Ben Johnson, not to mention the Duke of all actors, John Wayne, in a movie by John Ford with top notch players, in front of the camera to behind the camera to a movie called "Creek." These people have to hone their skills in the theater and with top notch people. Watch and learn from the best and you have a chance, learn from average and you become average unless you have "It." They just made some signs and put them in bushes and used the stereotypical plot and actors. I guess they watched others and just thought that's what you do.

Is being in the business of show that important that you have no self respect in realizing that your skill should be a little better before you make a movie, I don't know. Maybe I'm a little picky, but these are supposed to be easy movies to make and they can't.

If you want this movie in the background for noise and have other things to do then cool.

I'm going to go get some Haagen Dazs ice cream and read the bible, better stories in the old testament.

God Bless!!