+1
The Outwaters (C-)
A film about a group of folks going to the desert to do what I presume to be camping. When they arrive, odd noises in the sky are only the prelude to a whole bunch of stuff about to happen to them.
So first off, this is a loooong movie, at 110 minutes or so. It's a bit like Skinamarink, in that it shows you almost nothing that actually happens, but this one gives you quite a bit to latch on to first, introducing the characters and all.
Once the stuff happens, you see almost nothing, because the guy brought a flashlight from 1980 that only shines a tiny circle. Now, that's not too bad. The movie has one long, disturbing scene near the middle that is absolutely its apex. The first problem is that the cameraman is not super well directed, and you can see in one scene, with the very obvious circle from the flashlight, that main guy is just shaking the flashlight up and down so you can't figure out what happens. He was just standing there, why did the flashlight have to shake like that? The camera didn't shake like that, which is why you could see everything.
The other issue has to do with the content of what you actually see, which is blood. Lots of blood, everywhere, all the time. Way too much blood to not seem stupid, and it only gets worse as it goes along. There's also some tentacle stuff that looks cheap and adds nothing, along with a lot of panicked moaning that, at first, are intense, but then become tiring, and in the end all the gore stuff becomes almost comical, right up to the very last frame.
The good stuff was good, if you're into the less eventful kind of movie. This one draws you in nicely in the first half. The idea to reveal more and more as it goes along simply did not pay off here. It's a shame, especially because the gist of what's happening is pretty obvious relatively early on too.
I gave a lower rating to Skinamarink, but after seeing both, I would recommend that one over Outwaters