Reed's Point

source: Reed's Point

After reading the reviews here, curiosity got the better of me and I had to see it for myself. There is no doubt it' s supposed to be about the Jersey Devil, as it's mentioned about 50 times in the opening. I'll call everyone by their movie name, because why does it even matter? The first thing I noticed is when Alex shows Sarah his phone, the text message was supposed to be from a year prior, the last message he got from Kelsey, yet the messages both say sent and read, today 5:20 PM, so I knew what I was in for. A bunch of stuff happens that doesn't matter and they go back to the site to find Kelsey a year later. The guide that shows up in seconds somehow and they go looking. I still haven't figured out how Alex got so tangled up in a tree stump from falling down a hill that he had to be cut out of it. Fast forward through some more stuff that doesn't matter and they end up at what seems to be the only house in the vicinity. Meanwhile, their boss (I guess) has no idea where they are, goes to the middle of nowhere to look for them in the middle of the night in the woods with a flashlight and meets her demise. Well, ok then. The guy who owns the house has Kelsey held hostage in the basement in a room that looks like Fort Knox. Sarah somehow magically opens the door. The guy who owns the house is pretending to be the Jersey Devil. Or is he? I don't know, they don't know either apparently. Kelsey does a bad job of fake tripping and falling down from here on out. So many people were getting knocked out, punched out, butted with the stock of a rifle or hit across the head that I'm surprised the whole cast didn't have concussions. Everyone did an alright job as far as acting goes, except for the two lead girls. Sarah was an absolute plank of wood...with a bad haircut to boot.

It's been a long time since I've seen acting this bad from this movie company. Between the two leads, the female is the absolute worst. She needs to figure out something to do with her life cause acting ain't gonna be her bread and butter. She's not easy in the eyes, she has some weird speech impediment, and her delivery is just the absolute worst. The guy isn't much better, but he doesn't come off like a high schooler in a play reading memorized lines like she does. Do these people, yeah people cause they sure as hell ain't actors and movie makers, even watch the final product? Can they really sit there and think they did a good job and delivered top performances? If so then these people are more delusional than I thought. Overall, story might have turned out ok if not for the terrible acting bringing it down so low and making it so unbearable that watching it almost makes you want to take a power drill to your temple. Skip this, even free with ads wasn't enough for me. I personally stuck it out cause I read the end took a turn for the worse from other reviews. I was curious how much worse this could possibly get. Just don't start this journey, heed the warnings and bad reviews as reliable advice.

"Reed's Point" isn't just bad; it's stupefyingly, galactically bad. From the scenes in the RV, to the RV crash, to Joe Estevez's horrendous "crazy-old-codger-delivering-the-requisite-warning-to-those-crazy-kids" performance, this movie sucks like a nymphomanical hooker at a Viagra convention. I never thought that I would see another "creature in the woods" movie as bad as the insipid "White Fangs" movie, but I was wrong. "Reed's Point" is every bit as awful. The acting is beyond horrendous, and there are more plot holes than you'd find in a wheel of Swiss cheese. The characters make every single stupid, irrational decision that you can think of. Two people are searching for a third person, and when one of them virtually steps on something that belonged to the missing third person, she summarily dismisses the clue, blows it off completely. Then, this same intuitive genius pays way too much attention to the mysterious sounds of a house settling. The script and plot make absolutely no sense whatsoever. Our intrepid searchers venture out into the woods with an armed man that they know absolutely nothing about, and when one of them.is injured, the other goes off to find help. In finding help for the injured searcher, the one who went for help finds time to share a cup of coffee and swap stories with an apparent Good Samaritan, all while the other is laying trapped alone, in the dark woods, with a compound fracture of his lower leg. There's a monster. There's a conspiracy among the locals that our heroes stumble into. Evil abounds! Oh no! This is frankly one of THE dumbest f--king movies that I've ever had the misfortune of seeing. Spare yourself. Watching a constipated dog trying to evacuate it's bowels would be more rewarding and satisfying than watching this rancid turdfest.

After her friend goes missing, a woman joins her friends on a trip into the woods to investigate and find answers to what happened, but when they eventually stumble upon the purported Jersey Devil living in the woods they have to escape from the creature and another threat in the woods. This was a rather fun and enjoyable creature feature. Among the stronger aspects here is the fun setup that provides this one with a rather intriguing setup. The cold opening featuring the accident that fuels her obsession with finding her missing cousin and the strange animal she claims she saw at the time is a good start, especially connecting this with the stories and reports about the creature living in the area. The various sightings told about it over the years and how it fuels the film going forward where everyone they come into contact with is aware of it gives this a nice starting point into the creatures' existence. Likewise, the search to find her and the strange hiking mission they undertake to go into the woods looking for her cousin which turns into a survival thriller involving them coming upon the shady hiker and the mysterious scientist living out in the woods creates some intriguing aspects to this one as it goes along. Aside from this, the film also manages to feature some rather enjoyable creature action the appearance at the crash site at the beginning is a nice starting point where its hairy legs and massive claws are the only brief hints shown as it slashes one of the victims and drags another away in a haze due to the injuries sustained in the accident. Likewise, the brief ambushes sequences out in the woods later on are quite fun, with it appearing on the trail of a victim looking to find the missing group and attacking, the ending ambush in the woods of it chasing down and hunting the last remaining survivors through the woods have some rather likable elements here with the night-time setting and dizzying woodlands location providing some enjoyable aspects. Along with the generally imposing creature costume that looks rather good and a fun pace that's never boring, this one has a lot to like about it. There isn't much to dislike here but it does have some issues. The biggest factor with this one is the film turning away from the creature feature setup to become a showing about the family vengeance that's a more prominent part of the second half. Hen the creature's origins are revealed and it turns away from that kind of film into more about the strangers holding them hostage, it becomes almost comical how ludicrous this section of the film actually is including numerous scenes involving characters knocking each other out with the butt of a gun to get the upper-hand or chaining them up only to escape moments later. The explanations for everything taking place aren't any more enjoyable and this part of the film is a bit of an issue. As well, combined with the obvious low budget here that comes through at the most inopportune points for the night-time sequences being too dark to tell what's going on, these here are the main drawbacks. Rated Unrated/R: Violence and Language.

How did this even get made??? I've never acted before or been to acting school or have any natural acting ability that I know of but somehow I feel that even I could have done a better job than some of the wooden spoons in this movie. Shame because it looked like it could have been a lot better - the scenery wasn't too bad and the general idea was good but like a previous poster mentioned..it's way to hard to overlook the acting (yes... looking at you, leading actress...)

I put this movie on when I was having trouble falling asleep. It did not put me to sleep, so that's a plus. I will say that my expectations were not that high. It's a low-budget "young people go into the woods and find a monster" movie. I was not expecting Masterpiece Theater. I was expecting that there were going to be plot holes, and people doing really stupid things, and a lot of monster-in-the-woods cliches. That's what I got, and the movie kept me awake and entertained for an hour and a quarter. I also expected a cliched ending, because that's what you get in this kind of movie. But even cliches should be done well, and this one was not. It didn't make any sense to me, even in the context of a low-budget horror movie. I took a point off my rating for a bad ending, otherwise I like the movie.

This movie had great dialogue. Something bad critics tend to lack. If your looking for blood and gore this isn't it but if your an intellectual you'll like it.

A vehicle crash in the Pine Barrens led to a Kerlsey's (Madison Ekstrand) disappearace and locals blamed it on the infamous Jersey Devil. Then, on the anniversary of the crash, Sarah Franklin (Sasha Anne), the cousin of the missing girl, and Alex (Evan Adams), Kelsey's boyfriend, head off to the crash site to discover what really happened. Hey - there's Joe Estevez as the old man warning those teenagers not to ask too many questions. You know, if the last time I was in a town I watched someone get their arm torn off and a monster drag my friend into the woods, I probably wouldn't go back. Dale Fabrigar also directed the genre-hopping D-Railed, which was a pretty good time. Written by executive producer Suzanne DeLaurentiis, Tricia Aurand (Middleton Christmas) and Sandy Lo, this film feels like it's searching for what it wants to be. It has a great creature, an interesting set-up and then struggles to put it all together. It's not the worst film you'll find on streaming, but it may be a bit frustrating because it gets so very close to being a good movie.

source: Reed's Point