American Cryptids

American Cryptids is a great follow up from director to watch Erynn Dalton's Big Easy Queens. The movie is fun AND scary. Movies like this really show me that quality films can be made outside of the bloated Hollywood system, especially the script by master scribe Joseph Zettlemaier. The script kept me involved in the characters and plot, and matched with Dalton's direction, I had a great time during the movie's entire duration. If you like scary movies and are looking for an entertaining movie under two hours, American Cryptids is well, well worth your time.

Despite of never even having heard anything about this 2025 movie titled "American Cryptids", as I stumbled upon it by random chance, of course I opted to give it a fair chance. I am a big fan of all things horror after all.

This movie, however, was a horror anthology. And that usually tends to be questionable affairs.

Writer Joseph Zettelmaier put together a script and storyline that didn't really entertain me. Sure, there were some nice things to the narrative, but in overall, it just felt like random stories told without much of any direction or having any point to why they were being told. So I wasn't particularly impressed or entertained. And truth be told, I ended up with my phone in hand, whilst the movie carried on playing as background noise.

Of the entire cast ensemble, I was only familiar with actor Daniel Roebuck. The acting performances in "American Cryptids" were okay.

The production value in "American Cryptids" was actually surprisingly good.

This is definitely not a movie I would recommend horror fans to spend 102 minutes on watching.

My rating of director Erynn Dalton's 2025 movie "American Cryptids" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

This is not my preferred genre of film. And I arrived just as the film began so I lost out on my seat. I stood there, eyes glued to the screen start to finish. I couldn't leave for a moment to go get popcorn. For me to stand and be that interested speaks volumes to how good this film is. Nothing awkward, or out of place, no corny dialogue, no boring parts, no cliches. This is a first rate film with first rate actors. Go see it.

I love supporting indie horror films and you can always recognize when you see great talent at work. No spoilers but I appreciate this story tackles the lesser known cryptids that you don't see on screen since we've all seen vampires, werewolves and Frankenstein monsters

Looking forward to see what the writer and director will do in future films when they get the budget to match their ambition.

What can I say about it? The story is quite boring. The acting is bad, but I've seen worse and some b-movies are actually funny to watch just because of the bad acting, but sadly not this one.

Artistically speaking I could probably make something better with just my phone.

I would have given this at least 2 stars for somewhat trying in some parts but considering the amount of 10-star rating this is obviously beeing rated by every cast member and their families since nowhere in **** would someone give this even a near 10. Feels like those votes are bought so to counter it a bit, here's one star (since just a half star can't be chosen).