Traveling out into the woods, a family trying to escape the Y2K virus finds their trip interrupted when they're kidnapped by inbred hillbillies and a vicious, legendary monster awoken from beneath the earth and must find a way to stop both threats to get out alive.For the most part this one here was quite the fun and rather enjoyable creature feature. What really gives this one a lot of weight is the fact that there's just so much utterly enjoyable work to be had here with the blending of the inbred backwoods family genre and the monstrous creature feature. The first half here, where they get attacked in the woods and brought back into the family's house where they're subjected to numerous torturing, tormenting and plenty of rather fun antics with the family holding them there leading to all sorts of fun action scenes of them trying to escape their clutches. From them pushing the family around and constantly beating and smacking them around to the fighting only only with the deranged, deformed members but also the rest of the group makes for some truly fun and engaging efforts here that plays perfectly alongside the type of antics usually found in these kinds of films and it's a fun time giving the family plenty to like in the film, while the big highlight is the return to attack the family which results in some surprisingly brutal moments and a lot of rather graphic bloodshed doling out the deaths against everyone. Once this changes over into the true creature feature it's even more fun with the crazy way in which it rises up out of the ground in the middle of the forest out of the rather huge tunnel and proceeds to trample through the forest attacking the house which is quite a fun series of spectacular action pieces as the truly gargantuan creature smashes through the various levels of the house and breaks up both the different family sections squared off in the house as well as the different methods of bringing the house down around everyone that gives them the chances to escape are truly a lot of fun. The woodland encounters are even more fun, and the finale in the abandoned mining town are truly some of the more fun segments in the film with the creatures' gory kills and monstrous size are put to good use throughout here making for a cheesy good time. With this all being done in miniature effects without too much CGI present there's a great deal to like about this one and helps to make for a great time alongside the fine gore effects on display to really give this one it's positive marks. There's not a whole lot of flaws here, and what happens here is mostly based around the concept of giving the main hillbilly so much screen-time trying to make him imposing that it really fails quite spectacularly here at making him that way. There's little here about his mannerisms beyond holding a gun at everyone and stupidly not taking them out only to keep having to knock them out again later on that routinely gets used to define him and it's not that appealing. Likewise, the fact that it wakes up so late in the film and doesn't do much once it does beyond smashing into everything is another slight problem with this causing too much time on the hillbilly family because of that and it's not as even a split despite the mixing of the genres. It's all that really holds this one down.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Brief Nudity and themes of rape.

Fair story, good acting, excellent practical effects. Although the film really warrants a 7, I gave it a 10 to counteract the moronic Sharknado fans who think that cgi is god's gift, when in reality it's god's goof. Filmmaking is an art form, it's not an effing computer program.The miniatures in this film are exceptional down to the forest scenes and the houses. The creature is at once monstrous and kind of humorous, and certainly original. Sure it's a B-movie story about a family who encounters "Hills have Eyes" rednecks in the woods on the night of Dec. 31, 1999, and it just so happens that a giant insect like creature has reached it's full maturity that night and eventually wreaks havoc upon both freaks and family, but these guys went the extra mile with very little money, apparently shot everything in a 700 ft warehouse with the exception of a few exteriors of the jeep driving around. That is impressive.

Besides all the "no CGI" chat... The movie is awful to watch... I'm a avid movie watcher, from all genres and types, and horror are, side by side with suspense, my favorites; but this one makes my laughs go out loud in the neighborhood! Man, what the hell is this? Bad acting, great monster, but also no terrifying one, so, the movie is nearly almost to watch till the end! I never stop watching one, even a piece of "shtako" like this, but I strongly do not recommend anyone to loose time seeing this one! The deaths are so forced and even we knowing that no CGIO was used, the rubber and plastic models used to play these parts lack credibility and this makes the movie very very very ugly!

I don't know what to say about this. Well, too start, it's about a family that is spending Y2K camping or whatever. Obviously they get abducted by an inbred hick family. And, the abductors and abductees are all prey for a monster of some sort.Independent movie or not, this movie is very stupid. I don't know what else to say. The acting is terrible. The effects are terrible. Every single thing about this movie is horrible. I set very low standards for this PoS because I know it's an independent flick. I never expect much from those. But..., even with my expectations being nonexistent, this stupid thing was horrible. This movie looks like it was a joke. It almost seems like it was made to mock someone. I don't know who, but someone. I don't think that anybody, writers, director, actors, absolutely anybody involved with making this thing took it seriously. If that were the case, it's still pretty f***ing horrible.