Clawed

There was some potential this film, but in the end, hindered by production and faulty missteps throughout the way, it suffered the usual pitfalls that most films in this genre do. But it had the potential.

Literally, there is nothing to see here in this film. Normally I will give a low/no budget film the benefit of the doubt and will try to watch to the very end. But this film I could only get as far as 15 minutes then turned it off, it was that bad. 9 minutes in and the opening credits start to roll. Before this, a podcaster with a clock ticking so loud to the point it was distracting. The effects were horrid and the acting was very one dimensional. If I could rate this on the negative scale, I would give it a Minus 10, it was that bad.

A young man dying of cancer, his girlfriend, a college field trip and an officer converge on the Bear Claw Wilderness to witness the walking horror known as The Shadow of Death.

"Clawed" (2017) is a spare-change Indie creature feature with quality locations, an excellent monster, lots o' convincing gore and a decent cast that includes Felissa Rose from "Sleepaway Camp" (1983) & "Return to Sleepaway Camp" (2008), as well as a couple other good-looking females. Some of the camera work & editing is interesting or experimental, but also amateurish. The sound-work is noticeably bad (you'll know what I mean), but at least you can always make out what's being said.

The biggest problem is the way the film was put together wherein the story doesn't build any drive. I wanted to turn it off 30 minutes in, but persevered. At least there are some good things to glean, if you don't mind very low-budget Indies.

The film runs 1 hour, 30 minutes. I can't find any info on where it was shot, but it looked more like Southern Cal than Montana.

GRADE: C-

If you are watching this because you saw her name don't bother.

Imagine the blob creature from ''Creepshow 2'', in walking monster form, with the face of Venom from Spiderman, killing technique of Victor Crowley, that rapes women. You end up with ''Claw''. This reminded me a lot of those Hatchet movies, but with a budget too small to go it's full potential. A lot of the times the kills look very choppy, and it makes me wonder if that was done because of lack of funds. Fortunately you're still able to tell what's going on.

The camera work at times is super shaky for no reason. It seems like the director just graduated from film school, this is his first big project, and he's experimenting with different angles. Overall it's a silly fun b movie