source: Crypsis

Standard monster story about Teens going off to a remote island and then being picked off one-by-one by an unseen predator. The creature effects are great.

I can get passed the jersey accents. I can get passed the clear sexual frustrations the boys have with each other. I can't get passed the awful pacing of the story. It's like they themselves forgot it was supposed to really be about getting evidence of the creature, and just rushed it at the end. No resolution. No ending. Just awful. These boys are supposed to be grown adults but they each came off as freshman in high school. Not even good background for falling asleep to

Great make-up effects and average story with some good and more bad acting. Watch it if you have nothing else to do.

How do these things get financed? Where do they find these 5th rate actors? What is the budget? $1,000? The scriptwriter must me a 12 year old D student. Horrible diologue. I believe much of this drivel was ad libbed. The actors must have screamed "shut up" to each other 40 times. At one point, 2 guys were laying on the ground at night with the deadly creature just yards away...it is dead silent. So the one guy interupts total silence to tell the other one to be quiet. Huh?? Constant yelling to be quiet when the creature waz closeby. Assinine fighting instead of bonding. Hunting the creature instead of huddling together with clubs or spears. Non stop arguing and screaming. Omg. This one is so bad it disgraces movies. Shameful.

"Crypsis" takes on traditional creature feature tropes. It is reminiscent of "Animal" and "Indigenous", mixing backwoods concepts of wilderness horror. It starts off with a barely convincible start. The story is high energy, and constant thriller. There is very little down time or respite from the action aspect. The characters are stereotypical, annoying and surface. One or two in a cast is cool but with every character seeming to be a clone of every other then it is hard to connect with them. There isn't much realism built into these guys. The acting isn't all that great either. Still I did connect with a couple of the characters and I enjoyed the action sequences. The horror elements are mostly done off screen with clever cut-aways and camera tricks. Most of them work, and the scenes with the creature coming in for the kill are my favorite moments in "Crypsis". I feel there really should have been a few really gruesome on screen kills though, the film teases us with the idea but never really delivers. Overall "Crypsis" never lives up to all that it hopes to be. The story has some holes in it, the characters aren't developed enough to like, and the ending goes on two unnecessary scenes too long. Still there is some cool creature effects in "Crypsis". It pace is quick and the overall atmosphere is straight up horror. This isn't one for all horror fans but I think indie creature feature fans might find enough to like.

Well, it started out looking good, but then it became just another mediocre scare fest. 95% of this effort is photographed in the dark, with an Orc type cryptid revealed at the end. It is not worth watching, there's nothing original here, just 5 guys running about (in the night) like headless chickens... 1 out of 10.

The film opens with a teaser and then we have 5 guys enter in a survival bet on Harker Island, a stone's throw into the bay that is supposed to have a deadly humanoid creature. Before the group could degrade into "Lord of the Flies" the creature appears early and often. The drama was limited. The camera work was mostly jerky. I was neither scared nor impressed. I expected the Asian guy to die first. No girl in the group to be the "final girl." Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

I heard it from one of the actors... dumb and dumber... and this movie is choke-full of it. If the ridiculous screenplay won't annoy you then I'm sure the constant quarreling among all the actors would. There is no real scare in this movie. The monster itself was like a suit bought from an 80's horror movie scrap sale. Finally, I haven't really paid attention to any of the real story or if there had been a real "twist" since between several yawns and psshhh's I really wouldn't care. Watch a 60's classic horror instead - you'd be amazed.

Five imbeciles go out to document their adventures on an island, supposedly to win a bet. They do not suspect that they are being used as bsit to prove the existence of a monster that allegedly inhabits the island. Where do I begin? With the imbeciles that are supposed to be good friends, but who bicker, slam and insult one another at virtually every opportunity? My favorite among these imbeciles is Josh, who singlehandedly commits every stupid mistake and ill-advised action of every idiot in every horror movie ever. Talking or yelling at the top of your lungs while trying to hide from the murderous beast? Check. Standing in the dark and turning on a flashlight so the murderous beast can find you more quickly and easily? Check. Bolting from cover in a snit and stumbling blindly in the woods while the murderous beast is hunting you? Check. Given tasks to accomplish that while help the group survive, but failing to accomplish a single thing? Check. Being utterly annoying and useless while finding ways to infuriate his imbecile friends almost constantly? Check. Whining constantly? Check. Being an utterly futile and useless coward? Check. Then, there's Ethan, the supposed wilderness expert in the group, who can't actually do any of the things that he's supposed to be good at. Let us not forget Brandon, who climbs up a tree to hide from the murderous beast, only to later forget how to climb down again. That's right. He forgets how he climbed up the tree, and can't figure out a way to climb down again. There is not a single likeable character in this movie... not one. As a group of friends, they don't pull together in the face of danger. Instead, they argue and turn in one another, and are pretty much willing to abandon each the other to their own fate. The old adage, "With friends like these..." comes to mind. At some point in the movie, a rifle is introduced. It's supposed to be a high-powered hunting rifle, for the purposes of this movie. In actuality, it's a Gamo air rifle. How do I know? I own the exact model shown in the movie as a hunting rifle. Foolishly, I ignored the negative reviews. I had hopes that this would be at least semi-decent, as the movie "Sweetheart" was. "Sweetheart" tells the story of a gutsy, resourceful young woman who become trapped on an island with a murderous creature, and she is ten times the man that any of the cretins in "Crypsis" are. She's smarter, tougher, more clever, braver, and cooler under pressure than Ethan, Josh, Brandon and the rest of the idiots in this movie are. See "Sweetheart" instead of this piece of crap.