Clawed

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There was some potential this film, but in the end, hindered by production and faulty missteps throughout the way, it suffered the usual pitfalls that most films in this genre do. But it had the potential.

Let's see. The movie begins with a paranormal Podcaster interviewing the sole survivor of a horrible creature attack. This survivor is a "legendary lawman" of some five years' experience. This legendary lawman begins to tell the history of Bear Claw Mountain. According to his narrative, the residents living near Bear Claw Mountain had traditionally and historically been warned to stay away from the south side of the mountain. Evil, bad juju, that sort of thing. Then, after years of avoiding this area, a stranger comes to town, tells everyone that the waters flowing on the south side of Bear Claw Mountain have miraculous healing powers, and everyone believes him. Now, let me repeat that. The lifelong residents of Bear Claw Mountain had historically and superstitiously avoided the south side of the mountain, because bad things happened there. A stranger, who knew absolutely nothing about the Mountain and the evil bad juju there, tells the lifelong residents that the waters in this supposedly evil area have miraculous healing powers... and they just suddenly up and believe him. They just take his word for it, and start going there. It gets stupider from there. The "legendary lawman" Then goes on to.tell the story of the Orderly sisters, who went to these miraculous waters so that one of them can be healed of some unnamed malady. The ailing sister reaches towards the black, brackish waters, and a huge, clawed hand reaches back and touches her. Hallelujah; she is healed! Then, the healed sister reaches for the miraculous waters again, and the lower half of her face gets ripped off. The black, tarry muck monster then chases and kills the other sister. The legendary lawman then tells the tale of his equally legendary lawman grandfather, who lead a search party into evil bad juju country to find the missing Orderly sisters. They find the sisters, or what's left of them. The big, black, tarry muck monster then shows up and kills the entire search party. Wait. If both of the Orderly sisters were killed, and then the entire search party was killed, who gave the legendary lawman being interviewed for the podcast the precise details of how they all died? There were no witnesses, no survivors. Well, we're making a cheap-ass horror movie here; we can't be bothered with plot holes, details, and continuity! We cut to years later, where a professor and some geology students are heading out to investigate and analyze the evil bad juju south side of the mountain, and the usual cheap-ass horror movie hijinks ensue. This movie blows like a nymphomaniacal hooked at a Viagra convention. Spare yourself the horror of sitting through it.

A young man dying of cancer, his girlfriend, a college field trip and an officer converge on the Bear Claw Wilderness to witness the walking horror known as The Shadow of Death. "Clawed" (2017) is a spare-change Indie creature feature with quality locations, an excellent monster, lots o' convincing gore and a decent cast that includes Felissa Rose from "Sleepaway Camp" (1983) & "Return to Sleepaway Camp" (2008), as well as a couple other good-looking females. Some of the camera work & editing is interesting or experimental, but also amateurish. The sound-work is noticeably bad (you'll know what I mean), but at least you can always make out what's being said. The biggest problem is the way the film was put together wherein the story doesn't build any drive. I wanted to turn it off 30 minutes in, but persevered. At least there are some good things to glean, if you don't mind very low-budget Indies. The film runs 1 hour, 30 minutes. I can't find any info on where it was shot, but it looked more like Southern Cal than Montana. GRADE: C-

If you are watching this because you saw her name don't bother.

This is not a bigfoot movie. You will not see a bigfoot in this movie. There is no mention of a bigfoot in this movie. There is, however, a mutated demonic freak creature brutally eviscerating everything in its path. Is this a "good" movie? No. Is this a fun movie? Sure. Some things to expect... 1. Apyr 2. CGI vomit 3. Killer mud puddles 4. Breasteses 5. Disorienting camera work 6. Brutal deaths 7. Rapey rapers 8. Toxic waste 9. CGI fireworks coming out of a mud puddle (slow clap) And much more. Do you like low budget indie movies? Do you like SOV horror? If you said yes then you might enjoy this one.

Toxic waste dumped in a remote rural area fails to create redneck zombies, but rather a manbearpig..light on the pig. A story was started that the waste has healing powers something added to the story for no particular reason other than to get 90 minutes in the can. Young adults are in the park for various reasons get attacked plus surprise ending. The film quality and effects reminded me of a 1970's film. It appears retro-camp was on the agenda, but was only half way executed making the effect a negative instead of a plus. The film is told as a flashback by one of the survivors of the massacre. Tiffany Shepis is becoming the next Eric Roberts for cameo appearances in stinker films...I understand it's a check. Guide: F-word, nudity, and I presume that was a rape scene.

CLAWED is yet another in a string of endless and cheap bigfoot hunting indie horror flicks. Students decide to investigate a local bigfoot legend and get more than they bargained for when the legend comes to life. It's a tame and lame film, entirely routine and predictable, lacking in incident and forcing the viewer to endure the company of dumber than dumb characters throughout.

Imagine the blob creature from ''Creepshow 2'', in walking monster form, with the face of Venom from Spiderman, killing technique of Victor Crowley, that rapes women. You end up with ''Claw''. This reminded me a lot of those Hatchet movies, but with a budget too small to go it's full potential. A lot of the times the kills look very choppy, and it makes me wonder if that was done because of lack of funds. Fortunately you're still able to tell what's going on. The camera work at times is super shaky for no reason. It seems like the director just graduated from film school, this is his first big project, and he's experimenting with different angles. Overall it's a silly fun b movie

A toxic substance in the woods has created a beast that instantly screws you over. A bunch of students head to the area to take samples and meet really gross deaths in the process. This one had pretty good make-up effects and gore. A few cheesy CGI effects but over all not bad. The flick suffered however from lack of an interesting plot. After 40 minutes they run out of ideas and the movie fizzles at this point. I did laugh when a guy had been clawed and he starts jumping to get away. I called him a Clawed Hopper! The ending irked me as well which is why I gave it only two stars. You will feel like your eyes should be Clawed out of your head for witnessing such crap.