For a no-budget movie (the only real disappointment here is the CGI creature), this one is quite good. No, there is no real new story here (premise: creature pushed towards civilization by logging company exacts revenge on humans); but the acting is uniformly very good, with Kevin Durand being a real stand-out. There are a lot of recycled cliches here (town folk vs. city folk; the troubled marriage of the small-town lawman, etc), but they never really overwhelm an otherwise well-told and well-paced story. In short, this is a horror movie where (shock) the actors save the day.
Review of Dark Was the Night
