In my short time of compulsively watching as many films as I
do, and even shorter time of reviewing them for public consumption, I feel I have
covered a wide spectrum of films in that time that I have given a wide spectrum
of reactions to. However, no matter what film I looked at, no matter how
out-of-my-depth I may have been concerning the genre, country of origin or
subject matter, I always prided myself on being able to articulate exactly why
I felt the way I did about each one of them. Sure, I’ve had films that were
difficult for me to pin down:
Birdman took me a while to really collect my
thoughts about,
12 Years A Slave had me hesitating because of peer pressure and
how much the rest of the world seemed to love it and
God’s Not Dead had to be
severely edited from the reams of notes I wrote on it so as to not piss off every religious group under the sun, or rather out of paranoia that that would happen. Today, however, I think I have found
a film to top them all in that regard.
Creature features are relatively easy stories to get right.
Mainly, because there isn’t much to get right in the first place. Either make a
giant-sized version of a regular creature like a snake or a shark, or let the
imagination run wild and create a whole new species like with Tremors. Add some
likeable characters and a basic plot to make the two meet, and there you go;
job done. Of course, as is the case with any sub-genre, there is always room
for error and in the age where Sharknado is a thing, the worst thing a creature
feature can do is be dull. No points for guessing how this one turns out.
