Better
than average creature-feature starring Kevin Durand and Lukas Haas as sheriff
and deputy, respectively, of a small northeastern town called Maiden Woods who
are forced to contend with a cryptozoological beast driven towards civilization
for food when its home is disturbed by loggers.
While not groundbreaking in any way, the film is admirably understated
in its slow-building suspense, spending much time with the central characters and
their personal issues before they realize how serious their supernatural crisis
really is. Screenwriter Tyler Hisel and
director Heller are also wise in keeping glimpses of the monster infrequent and
brief up until the film’s climax. When
it does appear, it is pretty disappointing, looking as though stepped right from
the airwaves of the SyFy Channel. There
is also some pretty heavy-handed religious analogies going on that are hard to
take. But overall, it’s a unique enough
and character-driven movie that boasts a good handful of scares and gripping
sequences.
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