Creature of Darkness
| release date | April 13 2009 |
| studio | Stouffer Entertainment LLC, MTI Home Video, Showca |
| director | Mark Stouffer |
| writer | Mark Stouffer |
| starring | Devon Sawa, Sanoe Lake, Matthew Lawrence, Kevin Alejandro |
| rating | R |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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This movie was the lamest piece of crap. SO thats what happen to sawa he disappear to make this shitfest. If you and your buddies are in the mood for a good cheese flick with a horrible costume alien and a CGI then rent this.
not even the eye candy could save this lame pedator rip off.
Horror is a genre that, when a film is done badly, can easily be turned into comedy. Perhaps if I had watched Creature of Darkness with some buddies and a few judgment impairing drinks, it may have been funny, but viewing it alone and sober was nothing short of painful. In this awfully acted, written, and directed movie we see a group of campers being slowly picked off by an alien known as The Catcher – and it makes me shudder to think just how wrong the direction of a masterpiece like Predator (1987) could have gone. Apparently, this cloaked and hooded creature has the ability to travel through time and across light-years in an advanced ship with the purpose of collecting human specimens for an intergalactic museum. However, its weapon technology is effectively limited to sticky spit and tripping tongues, some terrible CGI openings in the ground, and a hand axe that it takes from the campers. There are some capable animatronics in the (overly used) close-ups of the monster, but the CGI is subpar even for the video-games of a decade ago.
The performances are confused and awkward (as I imagine the actors must have been) and the long expositions are some of the most ridiculous dialogue I have heard coming from my TV screen, and I’m someone who watches the 700 Club for fun. The film fits nicely within the mold of SyFy originals, and at times seems almost crafted to guarantee a viewing on that station. There are two 90s teen stars in the cast, being Matthew Lawrence and Devon Sawa, who many will remember from Final Destination (2000). As a bit of film trivia, Sawa played the director, Mark Stouffer, in the 1997 biopic, Wild America, about the director’s childhood. Indeed, Stouffer is an award-winning nature film-maker, so it is unfortunate that he sucks so badly at writing/directing in the sci-fi/horror genre.
Is there any redeeming quality, you ask? Does it at least show tits, you ask, as all crappy horror films should as a consolation for wasting our time? Nay, my friend, it even goes so far as to cock-block us by having a character flash only to pull away the camera at the last second. And this is within the first few minutes, so don’t let the cute girls on screen dupe you into watching this film any further.
F
Normally a bad film like this will at least make you laugh, not so with this one. If you like horrible CGI and bad acting by all means check this out.
Mind-numbingly bad attempt at Sci-Fi complete with atrocious acting, story, script, and some of the worst CGI I have ever seen in a movie. The intro fighter jet/ship scenes had me literally thinking it would pan out to be someone playing a video game console, but it turned out to be intended “real” film action. Not even any laughs or skin to bail this mess out or make it campy. The old MST3000 gang would have had a field day with this disaster.