Crypsis

"Crypsis" takes on traditional creature feature tropes. It is reminiscent of "Animal" and "Indigenous", mixing backwoods concepts of wilderness horror. It starts off with a barely convincible start. The story is high energy, and constant thriller. There is very little down time or respite from the action aspect.

The characters are stereotypical, annoying and surface. One or two in a cast is cool but with every character seeming to be a clone of every other then it is hard to connect with them. There isn't much realism built into these guys. The acting isn't all that great either. Still I did connect with a couple of the characters and I enjoyed the action sequences.

The horror elements are mostly done off screen with clever cut-aways and camera tricks. Most of them work, and the scenes with the creature coming in for the kill are my favorite moments in "Crypsis". I feel there really should have been a few really gruesome on screen kills though, the film teases us with the idea but never really delivers.

Overall "Crypsis" never lives up to all that it hopes to be. The story has some holes in it, the characters aren't developed enough to like, and the ending goes on two unnecessary scenes too long. Still there is some cool creature effects in "Crypsis". It pace is quick and the overall atmosphere is straight up horror. This isn't one for all horror fans but I think indie creature feature fans might find enough to like.

Standard monster story about Teens going off to a remote island and then being picked off one-by-one by an unseen predator. The creature effects are great.

Great make-up effects and average story with some good and more bad acting. Watch it if you have nothing else to do.

This is an abomination. You know a movie is going to be bad when it starts off with the credits of cast and crew in basic font with no sound. This one is about a group of insufferable, irritating pack of morons acting like children, go to camp on a tiny island for a night, and the entire film them running around in the dark in the woods, and making snide, annoying, nonsensical, obnoxious comments to each other. Lowlight goes to the pudgy asian dude, who spends the entire time not understanding a single thing, and making braindead comments to everything anyone says, while everyone tells him to shut up after every comment, deservedly. There is no acting, there is no cinematography, there is no point to this. This movie should never have seen the light of day. Honestly atrocious.

Movies about huge primitive human/animal creatures tend to be similar, but this one in simply a string of scenes from every bigfoot creature movies ever made.

The acting if pretty poor and the storyline is a bit twisted on who is betraying who in luring people out to a remote island with legends of a creature, just to prove or disprove it exists.

The gist of the film is pretty much to see how the creature kills each of them and yet even that aspect is pretty boring since there are not that many ways for a creature to kill people on a deserted island, that has no weapons and no shelter.

It is a pretty poor addition to this type of film and ends up being REALLY boring after only a few minutes into it!