At times creepy variant of The Hills Have Eyes, about a college aged group that goes to an isolated beach in Mexico to surf and to meet up with one of their number's brother and his friends. When they get there, they find the beach seemingly deserted, but that doesn't stop them from surfing and drinking and stripping. One of them videotapes the little striptease that gorgeous Joliegh does, but when playing back the video while whacking off up on the hillside, he sees someone on top of a hill behind watching them. When he goes to investigate he finds a wrecked car and numerous skeletons, and a campsite with newly dead bodies. Someone then kills him, and they proceed to start killing his friends one by one. We learn that this is the result of some sort of a werewolf curse put on the beach, after it was the site of a surprisingly brutal killing and cannibalism decades earlier. I think I would have liked it better if it were just some random person killing them instead of the bit with the curse and the werewolves, or Chupacabra, or whatever the hell kind of animals they were.
Invigorting most of the way, but it loses momentum in the last third, when the pacing slows considerably, and several likable characters are heartlessly killed off. Gorgeous Joleigh is brutally (and needlessly) killed off after stereotypically stupid character behaviour, and Javier meets a similar and brutal fate.
Now, about the photography: the camera-work goes from shaky and very grainy to tack sharp focus and back and forth at random, all throughout the movie. If that had been used sparingly, it would have been to good effect, giving the movie a grittier look and feel to it. When the paranoia sets in and the characters start to fear for their lives, the camera-work adds to the effect. But when we see characters just simply standing around and talking or surfing, while footage changes from shaky and grainy to crystal clear and shaky, it becomes an overused an annoying gimmick. And an alternate title for this movie could have been "The Attack of the Red Lens Filter", because it looks like the entire movie was filmed through a deep red, or even purple filter, which doesn't help.
Overall, this is not a bad, with some suspense to recommend it, but better photography and a better ending would have helped it a lot. Joleigh Fioreavanti is one of the most gorgeous girls in recent memory; her topless scenes are a bonus, also.
Invigorting most of the way, but it loses momentum in the last third, when the pacing slows considerably, and several likable characters are heartlessly killed off. Gorgeous Joleigh is brutally (and needlessly) killed off after stereotypically stupid character behaviour, and Javier meets a similar and brutal fate.
Now, about the photography: the camera-work goes from shaky and very grainy to tack sharp focus and back and forth at random, all throughout the movie. If that had been used sparingly, it would have been to good effect, giving the movie a grittier look and feel to it. When the paranoia sets in and the characters start to fear for their lives, the camera-work adds to the effect. But when we see characters just simply standing around and talking or surfing, while footage changes from shaky and grainy to crystal clear and shaky, it becomes an overused an annoying gimmick. And an alternate title for this movie could have been "The Attack of the Red Lens Filter", because it looks like the entire movie was filmed through a deep red, or even purple filter, which doesn't help.
Overall, this is not a bad, with some suspense to recommend it, but better photography and a better ending would have helped it a lot. Joleigh Fioreavanti is one of the most gorgeous girls in recent memory; her topless scenes are a bonus, also.