An attempt at what? I have no idea, but there's potential here. It's squandered pretty badly on a weak script and a terribly-realised monster.
The story itself has a lot of potential - a young (teen?) mother who gives up her baby for adoption later goes on a camping trip with friends and a preacher, and finds an abandoned baby. The friends are then all terrorised by a bear monster thing, kind of like the bear from Annihilation if it was imagined by early Doctor Who creature designers. A fitting comparison, really, considering the preacher is played by Peter Capaldi - the 12th actor to portray The Doctor.
The kids do an admirable job, really, and deliver their dialogue pretty well, and Capaldi is...watchable? I guess? I mean, he barely has any screen time, really, so it's hard to say...
The real 'star', though, is the monster...which is really badly realised. If they'd put in more effort with that, it probably would have elevated this movie by quite a bit.
