Creature of Darkness (2009)

Director:

Mark Stouffer

Writer:

Mark Stouffer (writer)

Release Date:

13 April 2010 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Nightmare | Alien | Hunter | Creature | Monster

Cast

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
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ingrid Graham	...	Victoria (uncredited)

Directed by
Mark Stouffer

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Mark Stouffer		writer

Produced by
Mark Litwak	....	executive producer
Jay Sedrish	....	executive producer
Jay Sedrish	....	line producer
Mark Stouffer	....	producer
Jack Whittaker	....	executive producer
Jewell Whittaker	....	executive producer
Wendy Winks	....	co-producer

Cinematography by
Tom Camarda

Film Editing by
Jeff Martin

Casting by
Jason L. Wood

Art Direction by
Chanida Trueblood

Set Decoration by
Chanida Trueblood

Costume Design by
Amanda Riley

Makeup Department
Michelle Clark	....	makeup department head
Juli Maldonado	....	hair stylist
Juli Maldonado	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Jay Sedrish	....	unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Chris Edmonds	....	first assistant director
Michelle Edmonds	....	second assistant director
Billy Hayes	....	second second assistant director

Art Department
Jared Courter	....	set dresser
Briana Dorner	....	assistant property master
Frank Kasy	....	storyboard artist
Mario Medina	....	set dresser
Dave Preston	....	property master
Ryan Steinhauer	....	leadman

Sound Department
Benjamin Hoekstra	....	additional boom operator
Mike Hostettler	....	boom operator
Ted Phillips	....	sound mixer
Lola Wallace	....	sound utility

Special Effects by
George Bernota	....	animatronics
Jon Dawe	....	key animatronic designer: Kinetic Vision
Al Di Sarro	....	special effects director
Chris Richard	....	special effects assistant
Jordu Schell	....	creature effects

Visual Effects by
Richard Hurrey	....	character rigger
John Moores	....	digital effects artist
Lance Wilhoite	....	visual effects supervisor

Stunts
Matt Baker	....	stunt coordinator
Eddie Braun	....	stunt driver
Jeremy Fitzgerald	....	stunt coordinator
Ryan Fitzgerald	....	stunt driver
Rex Reddick	....	stunts
Matt Thompson	....	stunt double

Camera and Electrical Department
Benny Alvarado	....	electrician
Tyler Anderson	....	electrician
Michael S. Beckman	....	electrician
William Martin Cook	....	electrician
Nicole Dayton	....	grip
Jose Elias Felix	....	additional electrician
Edwin Kim	....	electrician
Erica Kim	....	electrician
Koji Kojima	....	first assistant camera: second camera
Matt Kubas	....	best boy electric
Erwin Landau	....	Steadicam operator
Erwin Landau	....	camera operator: "b" camera
Jorge Montalvo	....	camera operator
Michael Rizzi	....	second assistant camera
Michael Roy	....	gaffer
Darryl Rue	....	dolly grip
Casey Stouffer	....	camera operator
Casey Stouffer	....	still photographer
Jeremy Wong	....	second assistant camera

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Becke Shulman	....	key wardrobe

Editorial Department
Taylor Ruecking	....	assistant editor
Loren Stouffer	....	post-production assistant

Transportation Department
Gene Alford	....	transportation coordinator
John Christopher Hicks	....	driver
John Proctor	....	transportation captain

Other crew
Susan Bambara	....	script supervisor
Adrian Casas	....	production coordinator
Russell Chadwick	....	set production assistant
Megan Cissell	....	assistant to producer
Dawn Davis	....	production assistant
Paul Giorgi	....	production accountant
David Kern	....	location manager
Steve Martin	....	set medic (2006)
Jorge Montalvo	....	publicist
Derek Potts	....	production assistant
Chris Richard	....	set production assistant
Loren Stouffer	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• Stouffer Entertainment LLC
• MTI Home Video
• Showcase Entertainment

Distributors

• Mti Home Video
• Peacock Films (2010) (Australia) (DVD)

Special Effects

• Cost FX Supervision
• Kinetic Vision
• Lightning Rod Studios (additional visual effects)
• Schell Sculpture Studio

Other Companies

• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  camera cranes
• Mark Litwak & Associates  producer's representative

Also Known As:

MPAA:

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

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

USA:R (certificate #45796) | Australia:MA (2010) | Singapore:NC-16

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Stouffer Entertainment LLC

Goofs:

Continuity: 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.

Quotes:

Mason:The nightmare wants our women.

Movie Connections:

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

Needs a writer and director

The director, whose biography on the DVD would have you believe he's either Kubrick or Orson Welles, has credits and awards for nature shows. You know photographing animals in the wild.

Sure great, but in this case that doesn't mean he can write a scene or stage an action scene to save his, or any cute animals life.

The plot is a predator rip off deal. It's poorly shot on HD, the black levels and colors and focus are all problems from time to time.

The action scenes just don't cut together at all. Slow motion is used once in awhile for no good reason. The sound job on the movie is awful some of the stereo effects seem to come from the wrong side of the screen.

It's so poorly staged that sometimes it takes you a few scenes later on until you understand what happened in a sequence. It's sub amateur sorry to say there is no idea where to put the camera.

The one thing the movie has going for it is a cool looking creature head and hands. That is when it's a real prop, when it's a CG thing that too looks barely decent enough for a video game. But the real creature is coolly designed and nicely operated. Too bad the director and story give it nothing to do.

The movie seems to be cut to avoid nudity, the one semi nude scene is "timed" so darkly that it stands out against the rest of the night scene it is in. Profanity too is sort of mixed around the F word. Like the film was done to pass for screening on Sci Fi network ( now retartedly named Scy Fy) And is it better than the worst things on Scy Fy? Well no, it's probably just about as bad as their worst monster movies, certainly more poorly directed and photographed than many, on a writing level it's about par for the lousy course, aside from the real creature here which raises it above AZTEC REX, for example.

Has a pre credit sequence which makes no sense at all and is repeated later in the film, also seems like this was done to give is a punchy opening for Scy Fy channel.

Several endless scenes of people talking around the campfire slow down the middle and show off terrible writing and clueless acting. Early on there are several scenes to establish interpersonal conflict--which are bad and needless just makes you wish you'd never gone dirt bike riding.

Computer FX of airplanes and gunfire all really poor, music seems like same few cues from a sound library, but wait, there is a very "white" sounding rap song during the end credits.

They do drop a burning dune buggy out of the sky. There I've said everything nice I can think of. Really find one of the nature shows he directed and watch it, it might help you not want to kill the producer/writer/director before he makes you sit through another one like this. Hire the creature guys, fire the rest of them. A failure on every creative level involving the basics of movie making.