Editor’s Note: Redbox machines are full of terrible B-movies. You know it. I know it. Each week, a brave Daily staffer will take the plunge and watch one of them so you don’t have to.
Before I watched “Creature of Darkness,” I had never been so amused by a supposed horror movie. Oh, you haven’t heard of it? Well neither had I, and neither had Wikipedia. IMDB is familiar with the movie, and the user rating for it is 3.4 out of 10. This score is generous.
The movie is set in a remote, desert-like area, and follows a group of brotastic college dudes who are on a camping trip that mainly consists of plenty of dirtbike and ATV shredding. The group is on the trip trying to rid the lead character, Andrew (Devon Sawa — yeah, that dude from “Final Destination”), of the nightmares he’s been having. There’s only one problem: his nightmares are real.
Said nightmares have occurred ever since his schizo uncle told him a story about this alien monster, brilliantly named “the Catcher,” who hunts humans for a museum in another galaxy.
Andrew’s friends are determined that he realize this nightmare is not reality. But they are very, very wrong about this. The creature, who looks like a “Scooby Doo” cartoon monster, begins capturing them one by one.
Eventually Andrew’s girlfriend is captured, and this is where one of the biggest plot holes arises. The beast keeps his captives in a mountain that he enters through a portal that only he can open. However, in one of the explosive attempts to kill the monster, Andrew attains one of the beast’s arms. He then uses this to open the portal and save his girlfriend. But wait, what about the others? Yeah that’s right, he leaves all the rest of his amigos in the mountain, probably assuming they’d rather be a museum exhibit in a galaxy far away than live the rest of their still-young lives on Earth.
Just when you think all is well, quick zoom onto his girlfriends arm showing that she seems to have been poisoned by this cartoon alien-monster. Sequel! sequel!
I’d recommend people watch “Creature,” but I wouldn’t want anyone else to waste 1 1/2 hours on this gem. But hey, it only was a dollar.
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