Consumed

Imagine yourself smacking a crippled person. It's not the worst you can do, but it's definitely bad. That represents this movie. Without acknowledging the bad CGI, the awful creature design, the terrible acting, the most terrible thing is its screenplay. A half-baked couple drama, with a half-baked monster movie, with a half-baked character development.

When a young film camera is misbehaving, mom film camera tells it that "if you keep misbehaving, you'll end up being used to film a movie like Consumed".

A couple goes on a camping trip somewhere in the woods.

For the first half hour or so they just do that.

Walking around and talking about some boring stuff.

Sometimes the woman has some visions of herself lying on a stretcher.

What??? Why???

Well at least the nature photography is quite nice.

Then they put up their tent, talk a lot of lengthy nonsense around the campfire and go to sleep when the woman has more of these stupid and boring "visions"

Then some foggy wood-creature-thingy hunts them through the woods.

Why??? What???

It could have just surprised them while they were sleeping in their tent - but who knows - perhaps the creature-thingy is also into wandering through the woods?

It is day all of a sudden, the couple is wandering through the woods again, with the creature-thingy never catching up to them, the woman has more and more of these boring visions, and so on.

Then they meet some crazy hunter guy, take shelter in his cave and now sit down there in that cave, talking nonsense for a long time while the woman has more visions.

Sounds all veeeery boring and veeery stupid?

Yes, it is.

I'll spare you the even more boring and stupid details of how it all ends but anyway most of it consists of more and more of these visions the woman has.

And they get longer and longer and longer and even more nonsensical.

And that is basically the whole boring and stupid movie.

At no point whatsoever does it get even mildly interesting, let alone suspenseful, thrilling or entertaining.

If you don't know how to tell a good story, just show some nice nature pictures and a woman with some stupid visions in the woods.

Ohhhhh....facepalm!

Halverson known for direct to video film called RED Clover, Sava everyone knows him from three seasons of Chucky. Famiglietti known for Terminator 3. The story is about a former cancer patient barely made it and thrown her medical bracelet in the fire because it what we remember by. The creature is intense and dripping nose goop. The Performances are actually not bad Halverson, Famiglietti and Sava does a fantastic job with Resulting with a positive role balances. 20% of this film had lack of smoke-cloud effect and the story does not have enough power to contribute its energy enough. Unexpected surprised creature feature that I'd never heard off, love my lowest expectations indie production films and small cast works for that nature forest woods atmosphere.

Monster (kind of Wendigo) sold by the movie poster appears distinctly for about fifteen seconds in the whole story, after an hour and twenty minutes of cracking branches, murmurs and ridiculous smoke effects. Grotesque.

Monster (kind of Wendigo) sold by the movie poster appears distinctly for about fifteen seconds in the whole story, after an hour and twenty minutes of cracking branches, murmurs and ridiculous smoke effects. Grotesque.

Monster (kind of Wendigo) sold by the movie poster appears distinctly for about fifteen seconds in the whole story, after an hour and twenty minutes of cracking branches, murmurs and ridiculous smoke effects. Grotesque.

(Rating: 2/10)

Don't waste your time.

Sometimes you need to Watch a Movie (like: 'Battlefield Earth' 'Blair Witch 2' -or- 'The New Exorcist' ) to fully appreciate just how Truly BAD it is. And despite the abysmal reviews on both sides of the aisle (which may seem hyperbolic to some): I can state with absolute certainty that this Movie is in fact BAD.

The Script, Sound, Editing, Acting & Creature Effects were all acutely terrible. The only saving grace was some of the Photography & Production Value (i.e. The Shot-framing, Establishing Shots -&- Color-grading etc.)

Everything else was done haphazardly & felt just wrong. If this was the filmmakers first journey into the art of celluloid then I could perhaps understand, but that still doesn't change the fact that this film was abominable in it's attempt to entertain, captivate & thrill it's paying audience. (** 2 Stars out of 10)