Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

FJWWindsor I love the Caribbean (or most anywhere tropical) as a vacation destination. So watching a group of hedonistic millennials enjoy a Panamanian excursion full of good food, drink, dancing, romance and water sports drew me in, in a somewhat nostalgic manner. However, I soon realized how superficial these characters were, and the movie descended into the mundane when they started making decisions that defied logic. The residents of the area are unanimously warning to stay away from the jungle waterfall?!?! Nah, let's go anyway! Things start going awry and people start getting hurt/killed. Shouldn't they stick together?!?! Nah, let's all run in separate, distinct directions and get lost. You get the picture.IMHO, accelerated motion film technique has become overused these days, and it was especially annoying to me in this film. Quick glimpses of the creatures did not heighten the tension for me. Still, I did give it four stars, as this movie is better than some of the tripe I've wasted my time on lately.

Scarecrow-88 College-age twenty-somethings head to Panama for a vacation of surf and sex, but what they encounter when visiting a reputed "magical waterfall" (despite the warnings *not to go* by a local surfer who has befriended them) is anything but welcoming…a chupacabra! Monster mayhem in the night jungle results."Indigenous" works off the formula of foreigners from the US scoffing at local legends in order to find a forbidden and lovely locale off the beaten path. With all the comforts of a beach, plentiful drink, and sex in the air, and despite every kind of warning sign to the contrary, our cast of attractive guys and gals just can't get a clue, forging ahead and soon finding themselves in a fight for survival, in the unfriendly confines of a ferocious, bloody thirsty ugly resembling Nosferatu, sending off this deafening shriek that'd wake the dead. There's caves that one of the unfortunate tourist surfers get caught in, with only a lighter to see the way (which perfectly sets up plenty of opportunities for the cinematographer to highlight the chupacabra with brief glimpses when the darkness gives it up). There's a good scene involving one of the surfers and a flashlight that won't stay on. This can get quite frustrating during the run scenes in the jungle at night because it can be a bit frenetic in its editing and focus on the carnage (the creature emerging to snatch it some human lunchmeat with kicking legs and screaming accompanied by a camera that just won't stay still for us to get something of value out of the terror). There's a carefully elaborated skill the main male character, Scott (Zachary Soetenga), has regarding a phone function that would send out a pic message to certain areas he's been developing as an invention used later to help them when the monster is after them…it gets a lot of play but brings little help. It is actually the gang's local newfound friend who sends assistance their way in the form of the military. How a news crew continues to shoot one of the characters flagging them to land to rescue her and her remaining friends with them failing to do so resulting in the chupacabra grabbing the poor girl certainly leaves a sour taste…although you could see it coming. Some nasty flesh wounds (like a knee torn apart, a face ripped up, and a bone protruding from Lindsey McKeon's ankle when she trips and lands horribly on her foot) offer squirm inducing gore, and the location is good eye candy (when not in nighttime where visibility is tainted). Good-looking cast (the horror genre does produce this, doesn't it?) doesn't perform underwhelmingly, but their decision making leaves much to be desired. When you can party on the beach and relax as the waves splash, why bother trekking through jungle just for a waterfall? The script offers a scene where some of the conversation asks this, but the "because why not?" reasoning did leave me rolling my eyes, for sure. The monster wasn't too shabby...when you could get a chance to see it! When one of the girls decides at the very last minute to join the rest of the gang, I could only grin at the reason why...it comments on how the wrong choice can bring nothing but horror when simply staying put could have left you all in one piece.

degeneratekid I normally do not review films, but this one is so bad I want save people their time and money. The story is a blatant ripoff of the Descent, even the mutant creatures in the film look similar... The dialogue is stale and unoriginal, the actors might be talented but the performances are flat, plot is uninteresting, and the location although beautiful was never utilized. I don't know who funds these kinds of movies, but it's all around awful and painstaking to watch. I could not wait for the movie to be over. Please save your time and money. Avoid this film at all cost... all you see is people running around like idiots in a green jungle. It looks very generic and unpleasant. I kept pausing the movie to see how much time was left, that's how bad it is. The positive reviews on here must be from people associated with the movie just don't know a good movie if it slapped them in the face. Watch Descent if this your type of movie.

william_morris I will admit, I only got half an hour into the film before I had to turn it off and find something else to watch. While the photography is beautiful - the company obviously had a good DP, the cast of characters is entirely unsympathetic and filled with the entire inventory of Film School 101 clichéd, mail-order characters: the charismatic couple with the saccharine, please-get-a-room constant kissy-facing; the pathetic, downtrodden loser hoping to make it big; the unattached but beautiful female friend who serves no real plot purpose; and the drunken, foul- mouthed jerk. The plot is not new: friends go for a coming-of-age, last-gasp vacation and die horribly. With a soundtrack alternating between inaudible dialog and ear-splitting music, and no one whose fate is worth caring about, it's simply un-watchable.