yowie65
Why make an Australian film in Canada with American actors, I would have acted for free, at least you would have one dinky di Australian actor
TdSmth5
6 base jumpers (5 guys and only 1 girl) fly in a chopper to some forbidden area in Tasmania. Once they arrive, the first goof jumps, waits to long to open his chute ends up crashing through trees, falls through the ground, and gets impaled on a pointy rock. His blood flows through some channels and starts bubbling. Now something awakens in the cave.Eventually some of the others make it down there but they hear something and run away. Meanwhile the park rangers are looking for them. They find them as they run and arrest them. There are three ranchers, 2 guys and a girl who knows about aboriginal mythology.When she hears their story she has an inkling of what is going on. The ranchers check out the cave and find that what the others are saying is true. As they all drive back to the station, they are attacked by something with a glowing red mouth. Two of the ranger are caught. The rest escape after getting a closeup look of what they're facing. From the ranger girl we learn that the things are ancestors of the Tasmanian Devil that were said to eat humans whole. But these things don't have hair but more of a dinosaur stone-like appearance. They scream like Tassies, have a glowing red mouth, and are attracted to noise.One guy who is gung-ho and another guy try to run to the helicopter to rescue the others but things don't turn out well. Next they try to trap the devils in a cave. That doesn't work either. By now most of the bunch are dead and the remaining ones will give it one last shot.It's not a bad idea to make a horror movie about Tasmanian Devils. This one is your usual Syfy fare--on a low budget, filmed in Canada, and with lousy effects. Initially effects seem promising. During the night chase sequence, the creature looks well-done, but once things shift to day the creatures look like 80s CGI effect. The story is alright for what it is, the cast is OK, although it could have used some more females. I'm not sure who exactly the audience is supposed to be for these movies but perhaps they would like it, otherwise there's not much here that stands out.
cloeso9
What does this say about our educational system....or better yet, McKellar? Geez, in the first 10 minutes, a monstrous thing rips the door off her vehicle and takes away her coworker. She tells her cuffed passengers to stay in the vehicle while she and another runs after the thing so she can "kill it." In the next few frames, she tells the guy to "RUN!" Duh.Maybe before graduating college McKellar should have given her future some thought. Then she wouldn't have ended up in the Siffy hall of Shame, making horrible junk like this.The bad accents that come and go: the tight outfits that certainly help McKellar to run from the killer Devils (and show where her brains ended up: the sad CGI: unbelievably bad scriptwriting: really bad acting from all involved....Now, you have a Siffy movie!
GL84
Checking on extreme cliff-divers illegally in the area, a group of park rangers must help them get to safety when they accidentally awaken a horde of vicious Tasmanian Devils who begin to run wild throughout the park killing them one-by-one.This here turned out to be one of the more enjoyable creature features the channel has produced and is filled with good stuff. Most notable is the gore, which is far more graphic and vicious than expected and really gets strewn about here resulting in a lot of great gags and deaths as well. This one also features a lot of fun action scenes that feature the group being assaulted by the herd of creatures as they swarm about the area taking them on in different conflagrations, usually resulting in a sense of fun when it gets going in letting the creatures get in on the fun in the rugged landscape and keeping the film enjoyable throughout with it's various set-ups. While it gets a little bogged down with a lame romance angle that pops up and a rather convoluted origin to the creatures that gets side-swiped instead of flesh-out being this one's only problems, the rest is a lot of fun and makes it worthwhile.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Language.
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