Bad direction, in all departments. The script and the characters do not match, so that is bad casting. Or is it bad script only, and the actors were stuck with dud scenarios? Or were the actors not let in on the vision of the script? It is not easy to tell where this went wrong. The 'family' behave as if they are all strangers, when they are supposed to be a family. Bad casting, script or direction. Probably not the actors fault. One thing is for sure, the main protagonist does not make sense and is entirely unconvincing. This could be the main problem perhaps. So many characters do dumb and illogical things in this it is unimpressive. You want characters to do the odd clever move in order to appreciate the concept of humanity.It's kind of annoying that people connected with crappy films do bullshit reviews of those crappy films which misdirect us in the public whom desire to spend our time watching something of quality.The score is good and the twist near the end is good. That is about it though. A pity. Could have been great with better casting and a more talented director.

This movie really had the potential to be gripping but it fails on so many levels. The scene where the father tells his version of the legend is possibly the best scene of the movie, had that level of intensity been kept up all movie it would maybe have been scary.The Jersey Devil itself was also disappointing, it was so over the top that its not even scary.Many of the failures can be forgiven due to it not being a big budget movie but the ending really killed the entire movie for me.Really? They all just get eaten? She says sorry to the man who tried to kill her and her son? COME ON!A little mystery at the end would have been great.

I have said it a thousand times and this time it isn't different, if you put on front the title from the makers of then mostly you know that it isn't going to be a good thing. Here we have Darren Lynn Bousman as the director known for a few entries in the Saw franchise. This is something completely different. Don't think that you will have a torture porn in your hands, this is in fact a creature feature somehow. The acting was rather good and that makes it watchable because sometimes it was a bit lame story wise. What I was rather surprised from was the use of some gory moments. Still, it must have been a low budget because the intestines from animals and humans all looked the same. The only thing that annoyed me was the accent from Stephen Moyer of True Blood fame. He is indeed British but somehow playing a Brit it sounded more somewhere between British and a Southern accent.If you are into a no-brainer then this is a must see but to say it was scary, no it never was.Gore 1,5/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2?5/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 0/5

Hoping to reconnect together, an estranged family on a camping trip in the Pine Barrens learn the local legend involving the Jersey Devil is real when the voracious creature appears and forces the family to deal with it to escape the woods.This here is one of the more frustrating and problematic creature features around as there was a chance to do something special here. The setting here is a dark, creepy forest ripe with really terrifying layouts that are perfect for unleashing a voracious creature, it's quite a decent-looking creature with quite a chilling back-story to begin with, and there's some fun to be had when it gets the family lost in the back-part of the woods along the later half, but instead this one tends to involve a slew of increasingly bizarre and outright unnecessary subplots that make this one seem to go on forever. Adding in the usual family drama is more than enough and never really adds much new material to be influenced by this tactic, which feels like a continuation of the clichés anyway, yet the fact that there's so much extra happening going on here that the beginning to this one is so hard to get into it seems to go on forever dealing with the family issues, teen angst, the dead dog and the quest for closure about his father just makes for a tough time overall. All these subplots simply cause the actual attacks to get pushed back so much that the fun attacks in that second half come so late their inclusion is almost an afterthought and a case for being too little, too late to save this one from the potential it could've had about chasing down the revelers in the forest and them getting caught in the middle the way this starts off as, but even without this plot the beast itself and the action in the final half when he's mad and delirious do make this one somewhat interesting and save it somewhat.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence and children-in-jeopardy.