Trying to have a relaxing weekend, a group of friends heading into the Louisiana bayou find the local legend of a deranged, mutated killer half-crocodile beast to be true as he begins stalking them through the swamps and must find a way of getting out of the area alive.This one here was quite the enjoyable if somewhat problematic effort. One of the better elements here is the film's rather simplistic and overly-familiar setup which gives this one plenty of rather fun moments here playing up the routine storyline. Playing up the local legend of the town's creature and the tourist-trap mentality that suckers the group in while they're in the store at the beginning gives this a nice start that gets nicely explained quite nicely with the backstory revelation that comes out to spread the story and how it's all connected to the town makes for a nicely cheesy set-up which is all part of the film's charm. As well, the way it plays into the remaining parts of the action as the inclusion of the family hunting them throughout the area in order to follow up the wrinkly in their history where they have to bring them in to mate with their deformed kinsman which is given a new addition in the whole affair putting a creature in the mix as well as this weaving in the folklore of the swampland. That dirty, sweaty swamp- land atmosphere created by this is set-up works pretty well with the high degree of incest and backwoods brutality present in the remaining parts of the storyline which gives this a nicely sleazy aspect to go along with the frequent sexual play between family members and the full-on nudity that's featured prominently in here. All of this works rather well in addition to getting the stage worked up for the generous amount of stalking and action in the second half, which has plenty of great fun here in the forest encounter while out in the campgrounds, the fun of the hand-to-hand fighting in the bushes with the creature and the big battles in the shack's underground tunnels which gives it a really great air here. Likewise, with the fine finale where it goes overboard with the action letting the cool creature design get to be displayed quite often, it really has a lot of rather enjoyable elements here that really holds it up somewhat over the few flaws here. One of the main issues here is the fact that there's just way too much familiarity and reliance on well-worn clichés here that make this feel rather rudimentary and not that original as this plays off like a stereotypical backwoods family effort looking to bred with pure tourists only they feature a deformed monster as one of the family- members which makes it play out like a majority of those types of films. As well, the fact that this one really undermines the brutality of the creature at the ending where he delivers a beat-down big enough to dish out more punishment than what's delivered yet instead there's a rather frustrating article about it that changes the outcome of the hero's antics really downplays the creatures' intensity and aggression elsewhere here, even though that wasn't all that prominent with off-screen kills cutting back to show the mangled bodies. These issues here are what hold this back.Rated R: Extreme Graphic Language, Full Nudity, Graphic Violence, drug use, violence against animals and strong themes of incest.

When a group of young tourists decide to take a detour on their way through Louisiana, they discover there's more than a legend lurking in the murky swampland. Not a bad idea as b-movies go, but CREATURE is a failure in every department of film making. The script is awful, the dialog crass and unrealistic, and the six young leads are totally unsympathetic and impossible to identify with. There isn't much action, but a few horrific set pieces are extremely gory and exceedingly unpleasant. The eponymous monster doesn't have much to do and it might have been wiser to make the villain one of the several alligators that populate the region in which the story takes place. Failing that, I imagine we're supposed to see this as some sort of homage to CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, but this film has absolutely nothing in common with that classic. Insipid, vulgar, and insulting, CREATURE is an altogether toxic film experience.

This movie was just like being back in the 1990's and watching one of the countless creature features that were spawned back in that decade. And I must say that I was actually enjoying this movie, because it was like a cool trip back to the good old times.The story in "Creature" is fairly straight forward as a creature feature horror movie goes; a group of young people come to hear about the legend of Lockjaw, a supposedly half man-half alligator, and all killing machine. Bent of some sight seeing and looking into this old folktale, they seek out the old house where Grimley Boutine used to live, not knowing what horror lies in wait. The rural area holds more than one dark secret, as the locals seem to behold this monstrosity as some kind of God-like entity, offering up live sacrifice in the shape of humans to the reptilian monstrosity.Right, straight forward and fairly average storyline for a horror movie, I will agree with that. But it actually worked out nicely, because the movie plays well on superstition and keeping the audience in the shroud, revealing only bits and pieces of valuable information here and there. And there is a nice surprise twist to the storyline as well, as in who is who and whom can be trusted.The cast in the movie was quite alright, despite it mostly being unfamiliar faces. I will admit that I bought this movie for two reasons; 1. it is always fun to sit down and watch a creature feature. 2. Sid Haig is in this movie. And I was entertained on both accounts, especially because Sid Haig does such a wonderful job with these odd and dark semi-villainous roles that he usually portrays. But it was also nice to see David Jensen, Pruitt Taylor Vince and Daniel Bernhardt in this movie.And the creature effects were actually quite nice as well, especially as they had not opted to go for a myriad of spectacular CGI effects, but went for the 'old school' props and costume effects, and it actually worked out quite well.If you enjoyed creature features back in the 1990's, then chances are quite high that you will enjoy this movie as well. Thumbs up from me, and don't just ventured heedlessly into the swamp...

Upon finding this film, I first thought it was of a nostalgic brand. I was wrong and upon looking at trailer found it to be an attempt to revive the much loved horror sub-genre: the "Creature-Feature".Back in the heavy mists of time, in a land before the dictatorship of Overlord CGI, people used to actually dress up as the monsters in movies. This was a good time before the "Nazi-esque" reign of CGI. It meant there was more realism, if you could even ask for realism from a movie which stars it's antagonists (or protagonists for that matter) as undead humans who leech off others blood, or just eat them; but - the way I see it anyway - if you can't make it with material and your hands (or a machine) then it's probably not a viable concept and creating it with CGI is just a waste of time.Anyway, this film chose to revive (or try to) that brilliant Horror philosophy. To represent to you what happened I would rather like to use this Visual Aid, imagine an evil CGI Nazi shot the Wolf-Man in the chest with a silver bullet and it would be possible to bring him back to life with a defibrillator - even though it's very impossible, using common Lore as a guide; so then one of the Wolf-Man's supposed buddies the Crocodile-Man (or whatever that thing was from this film) comes over with this life-saving gear and applies the shocks ... but doesn't stop and keeps filling the Wolf-Man with thousands of electrical volts, in essence, making sure that there is no way Mr. Wolf-Man can come back to life. So, for those of you still not following, any attempt at making a movie with these techniques again will be shunned by anyone in their right minds.Just to get across to you how horrifically bad this film was i shall explain the premise in few words: incestuous, bestiality-loving Red-Necks. There you have it! Now imagine that for an hour and a half with one huge, unrealistic and really quite a lazy try at a twist. If you wish to be able watch a "Creature-Feature" again without thinking back to the time when you were tortured by Red-Necks with less than a 2-digit IQ between them, then whatever you do, DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE! For those of you who wish to watch it anyway, you're about as dumb and naive as I was, and may your Body Rest-in-Peace because, by God, your mind won't!