A small rural town in Maine is shocked as a mysterious animal leaves a local resident brutally ripped apart. Deemed to be a random bear attack by town officials, freelance journalist Max Frome suspects it might be something more.
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I had a free Vudu rental and wanted something new and obscure so here we are! And it is surprisingly good! It has its share of cons, but overall it’s a fun creature feature.
The acting is almost shockingly good for a low budget indie horror film. The lead actor is pretty easy on the eyes too. If that long haired snack had taken off some clothes that would have been great what sorry I’m just presenting the facts here. Actually, the whole thing looks good and major bonus points for all the practical effects! I was pretty shocked when the creature did, in fact, look not awful!
Really my only issue is the two hour run time. What is…
Fitting that this comes from Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment because I actually found the thing sort of cozy? 80% of the movie is a handsome dude with great fashion layering game—buddy looks like an estranged Winchester bro—nursing cups of hot coffee in his neighbors' rustic kitchens, inquiring about lizard monsters as one might the progress of a new shed underway. I don't care that we hardly ever see the Cryptid (and that when we do, it looks exactly like a Gorn); when the journalists trying to prove its existence are this well written and acted, I'm happy just to hang with them. I was even moved, which I did not expect from an indie horror flick so far off any radar that it was crammed in with Wrestlemania Backlash DVDs at Walmart, seemingly the only place that it exists. Give me Elba punching a lion or the fucking Zodiac of creature features... It doesn't matter, I'm fickle.
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Maybe it's that I've been more forgiving of schlock the last few months of thinking about what really matters in this life, or maybe it's that I've always had a fondness for both X-Files and monster-of-the-week episodes in particular, which this gives heavy vibes of both. Whatever the case, while not great, this a) definitely could have been worse, especially for its clearly-low budget and a runtime it's hard to not feel, and b) hit enough soft spots along the way (including the Scully knockoff stealing the film for me, the star being eerily relatable to me at this present…
needed another creature feature tbh, cool lizard, but I love how in these movies its rarely thought "this is an endangered species I cant be too mad tbh"
Since I'm a sucker for ghost hunting shows, no surprise I'm a sucker for cryptids as well, I was expecting something... lower quality, I suppose, but this turned out to be a pretty good time.
The protagonist, Max, is a sort of a shifty freelance journalist trying to get a scoop on a recent animal attack the sheriff is saying was likely done by a bear. He enlists his photographer friend Harriet to help him with the story, and they start uncovering a string of animal attacks going back years. A pretty solid premise, more of a mystery film than a straight horror film, and it's carried by two surprisingly charming leads with good chemistry. There is some melodrama with…
What a pleasant surprise. It plays out like one of those failed pilots that were released as tv movies during the 70s just with somewhat better monster effects and more violence. It takes its time at nearly two hours but mostly kept my attention thanks to characters that feel lived-in and enough of the small town atmosphere which I love in my monster movies.
I love giving random movies I’ve never heard of a chance and they are actually pretty solid. I rather love this movie flaws and all it just lacks any real action, kill scenes, urgency, script and a real ending. Everything else is top notch.
I hope this gets a sequel even though I doubt anyone will ever watch this or even hear about it
Very good creature feature...nice monster with budget they had, great story...loved the investigative aspect...only complaint..just a tad too long, drags a bit but finishes strong
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I definitely wasn’t sure what to expect when the credits popped up with Chicken Soup for the Soul, but even with a sort of generic and lackluster name, Cryptid finds itself as a well written creature feature/mystery.
The film follows a talented, but deadbeat newspaper reporter for a rural Maine town named Max, who happens upon a crime scene and quickly finds that this death isn’t just any wild animal. With the help of his friend Harriett they begin to find a pattern for an animal no one has ever seen or heard of, with deaths going back decades if not longer. The creature in questions isn’t shown much, instead opting for a Jaws method of finding unique ways of…
