What was the point of this movie?
It was like the director saw Jurassic Park one day, and during the T-REX attack scene he was like, "Yes! Let's do that, but and hour and a half longer, and with a much smaller and less scary creature! But before all that happens, lets have some family drama with characters so terrible that you'll have no choice but to forget them"...
Why did we need family drama in a monster movie in the first place? And especially family drama with a absolutely awful and unlikable character, even after her "sacrifice". I wanted the mother to die the entire movie. Why write a character like that and then expect that audience to like her?
I think the reason they added the family drama stuff is because they didnt have enough story to fill a feature runtime.
The plot was a monster that's chasing them through the woods... and they kill it. That's the movie. No explanation of what the monster is, no interesting twist of why it was hunting them, or at least even an interesting way that they kill it. They just did the typical thing, burn it like the Thing and Aliens. They even stole "COME ON!" from aliens when ripley is shooting the queen with fire.
And why were there no other cars on the road? And why were there streetlights on a street if it wasnt near a town of some sort? They dont just put street lights in the middle of nowhere. So why did it take so long for an ambulance to show up!?
3 million dollars spent on what might have well been a syfy original with slightly better cinematography? Even the creature wasnt that cool. It looked like the things from Feast.
3/10