How many times have we been down this path before? This low-budget production is a basic run-of-the-mill monster on the loose in some backwoods. A demonic creature (of negative energy) from Native American Indian folklore. But you can't argue that it doesn't deliver what it achieves to do. However it's not particularly exciting in its durably slick execution, despite sensational location choices and the best efforts from its dependably committed cast. I had a hard time believing the very beautiful Cerina Vincent in the lead role as a park ranger, but that's not taking anything away from her performance because she does carry the film. Her character is a complex one, albeit rather clichéd in that she's exorcising her own demons and drowning her sorrows with alcohol. Her boyfriend ranger is played by Dominic Zaprogna and he brings a confident likability to the role. For comedy relief a talking exotic parrot is chucked in. While it can labour a bit, there are some eventful moments of suspense with the creature toying with its victims (mainly at the back-end involving Vincent's character) and when it decides to finish the job it does leave a bloody splatter with jolts few and far. Some instances seem laughable though. The camera-work has numerous monster POV shots and that frenetic hand held photography shows up. The monster FX is decently captured and does look impressive when we see it in full sight. Standard, but modest creature-feature entertainment. "If its coming after me. How do I kill it. "

Its more like the audience that is left waiting. Patiently you wait for all the romanticism to be over so as the film could start, then the sex scene, with the candles, doesn't even give us a glimpse of her tits. Which is a shame because she has a glorious rack. In fact often you forget you watching a horror flick, its more like an episode of Beautiful. When the monster finally starts getting nasty, i don't how she manages to sleep, and how they hang around talking. She doesn't seem as traumatized by the awful stuff the monster does as she was about the car crash that killed her friend. Anyway she wastes a lot of bullets, and food.

An ancient lethal and powerful humanoid creature (Matt Jordan in a gnarly monster suit) of local Native American legend gets freed from its mountainside cave prison and goes on a bloody rampage in the woods. It stalks and torments troubled forest ranger Danielle St. Claire (a strong and sympathetic performance by the lovely Cerina Vincent of "Cabin Fever"), whose grief and guilt over the recent untimely death of her best gal pal Julie Cassidy (a winningly perky turn by Miranda Frigon) attracts the evil beast's sadistic attention. Director Steven R. Monroe maintains a steady pace throughout, effectively creates a spooky and gloomy atmosphere, and piles on the nasty gore during the brutal kill scenes. Better still, there's a thoughtful aspect to the script by Richard Christian Matheson, Thomas E. Szoilosa and Stephen J. Cannell which adds a welcome and refreshing element of poignancy to the story. Vincent effortlessly carries the picture with her excellent and affecting portrayal of the touchingly tragic heroine; she receives fine support from Dominic Zamprogna as her concerned, likable boyfriend Justin Rawley, Greg Kean as friendly fellow ranger Rick Bailey, and Eric Schweig as wise college professor Joseph Riverwind. The engaging main characters, Jon Joffin's polished cinematography, a nice soundtrack of pleasant pop-rock songs, the breathtaking sylvan scenery, and Corey A. Jackson's eerie, rousing, flavorsome score all further enhance the overall sound quality of this nifty little shocker.

The film opens up with a bunch of hikers walking into a cave, they open a stone slab and before each knows it, all are dead. In a nearby Ranger Station, Danielle 'Danny' St. Claire (Cerina Vincent) is still trying to cope with the pain of losing a friend in a car accident (we find out that Danielle was really the driver of the car a little later on) the year before. The only comfort she can get is from her boyfriend Justin Rawley (Dominic Zamprogna).The film really gets going when the monster kills a number of Danielle's friends, her boyfriend among them. The monster is attracted to Danielle because she is in a miserable state. It is about this time that Danielle meets up with a camper that seems to know a little bit about the monster. The monsters name is Wakinyah (Austin Jordon) and that the monster was once a female. Danielle races back to the ranger station to wait out the night, when she goes to find the camper, she discovers that he had been killed.The plot ends nicely, and it gives off enough questions that a sequel could clear up. Steven R. Monroe really brought this new idea into a really good focus. He lets us imagine what the monster is before showing us it in the last ten to fifteen minutes. I thought the movie was well portrayed, had good actors and had a consistent plot that kept us all at the edge of our seat.