Creature of Darkness (2009)

The monster of a man's recurring nightmare turns out to be real when he and his friends go on a weekend trip to a remote area.

Director:

Mark Stouffer

Writer:

Mark Stouffer

Stars:

Devon Sawa, Sanoe Lake, Matthew Lawrence

Cast

Cast overview:
Devon Sawa	...	Andrew
Sanoe Lake	...	Gina
Matthew Lawrence	...	Lance
Siena Goines	...	Karla
Dan White	...	Mason
Kevin Alejandro	...	Emilio
Jennifer Howie	...	Rachel
Ryan Judd	...	Eric
Fernanda Romero	...	Heather
Phil Van Tee	...	The Catcher
Matt Lattimore	...	Major Victor Devorshak

Storyline

Andrew is haunted by the nightmare of dying a horrible death in the claw of a rampaging creature. A friend convinces him the only way to conquer imagined fear is to confront it head on. When they invite an adventurous group of off-roaders for radical cycling in remote terrain, no one knows they are being led to the time and place the nightmare unfolds. As sunset plunges them into darkness, the dreadful dream turns real, and they are attacked by the Catcher, a skilled and brutal collector of human specimens for alien science. They are no match for the deft hunter, and it picks its victims, dragging them into an underground catacomb. When Andrew's girlfriend is seized, he confronts the ultimate terror by tracking her into the unknown danger below. In a courageous rescue, they attempt escape, but the vicious visitor has marked them with a scent, and it pursues in an unrelenting attack.

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Plot Keywords:

nightmare | alien | hunter | creature | monster | 

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Genres:

Horror | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for creature violence/gore, language and brief nudity

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

13 April 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

Hunter's Moon

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Stouffer Entertainment LLC, MTI Home Video, Showcase Entertainment

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

When Andrew awakens from his nightmare, his left hand is in different positions between camera shots. From the tent flap his left hand on his neck, but from the back of the tent both his hands are on the ground behind him.

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Quotes

[Andrews wakes up with a shout]
Mason: [shouting] Hey, Andrews, you okay?
Eric: What happened?
Lance: Maybe he got his dick caught in a zipper.

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Connections

Featured in Making of 'Creature of Darkness' (2008)

User Reviews

Packs Quite a Punch

Not overwhelmingly original, this movie packs quite a punch for a low-budget feature, despite a superficial similarity to Predator and other slasher films. The similarity to Predator is due to the green filtered scenes presumably showing the alien's point of view. I thought the alien, with a few humanoid features and creepy claws, was truly frightening as he appeared on the crest of a hill on an October full moon night. I give the director full credit for this. The dialog reveals that October is an especially bad time to be in this area of the desert. As the film's special features reveal, the alien was constructed for maximum ugly and sinister impact. Not as physically bulky as Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers, the alien catcher is seven feet tall, and lean and mean.

It is true that this is a "B" movie that has little in the way of character development, but there was a Western/horror movie last year called "The Burrowers" that was similar and that I would also recommend.

The movie is carefully constructed with about 8 20 -year- olds driving their all-terrain vehicles into a remote desert for a weekend of partying, with flashbacks to an alien abduction some time previous. The dialog is also for the most part much better than average and the characters are all good looking specimens, the better for the alien to capture. One of the male characters has had a series of recurring bad dreams regarding his schizoid uncle's stories of abduction. Part of the reason for the weekend getaway is for his friends to "cure" the dreamer of his presumed illusions. The alien also has the ability to create sinkholes which disappear after capturing their victims, so his quarry cannot escape. He has a mountain lair where he stores his victims in glass cages prior to abduction. He also spits green gobs of goo, and uses a human spine dislodged from a previous victim, and also a snake as slingshot weapons. His spacecraft looks like an evil insect. There are a number of confrontations between human and alien and eventually the teenagers ingeniously contrive to blow up one of their all terrain vehicles when the alien approaches. As one might expect, after the characters douse the alien with gasoline and light it, the alien survives, only half-alive, but with enough life to get back to his spacecraft. All in all I thought this little movie had quite a bit going for it because it's unique and doesn't carry a lot of "sequel baggage" unlike the endless repetitive sequels of the Friday 13th or Halloween films.