ortsac Was this movie about the Jersey Devil? I think not… Were any of the incidents in the movie related to the folklore that's been told for over 200 years? Again, I think not!I've read every conceivable book, article and documentary that I could find of old JD and this movie doesn't dabble with any of it. There is no documentation anywhere that the Jersey Devil killed people. In the movie however, JD enjoys a blood fest.With all this being said though… Accept the picture as if it has nothing to do with the Jersey Devil. It's still not very good. The story line is weak with not much thought in the direction. The first few minutes of the film grabbed your attention with a little history about JD. Once the story began it slowly went downward and into a climactic crash landing at the end. It was a horrible ending to say the least.I have seen worse… I can say something good about this film… I did enjoy the deleted scenes; one scene in particular was deleted for not being politically correct. When Kathryn gets lost in the Pine Barrens and comes across the Snake Man. She suddenly burst out in anger and despair; "Does anybody around here speak English? Did I take a wrong turn somewhere? Am I in Albania?!"The underscore was well done and Theo Eastwind's cut "7500" is a cool tune."Mankind is so unkind." So am I in giving this film a three star rating.All The Best! ORTSAC

kayspam I'm from the Pine Barrens region of New Jersey and have an interest in the Jersey Devil legends. When I heard this movie was coming out I was rather excited.. local folklore making it to the "Big Screen". We were expecting a bunch of snow this weekend so the spousal unit and i ran to the video store to rent some movies.. we saw this one in and decided to rent it... If only i'd read the comments here first. It was TERRIBLE! OK.. I can understand the well-known legend being copyrighted and so they went to an alternative version.. but SO far-fetched? Guns that shoot without ANY indication of discharge or recoil? Awkward camera angles which were supposed to give a feeling of suspense rather causing motion sickness. Blood remaining vividly crimson after over 24 hours aging time? Deer heads stuck on hooks and then miraculously losing the hole? And here let's toss in a sex scene with NO ties to the plot just to make sure we have at least one token female breast to please the masses. We did actually take the time and view the commentary and when Ms. Maryk commented on the incredible effects that went into making the monster I did have to laugh out loud. The creature wasn't so bad when viewed as a silhouette but the closeup scenes?! Yick.. and i don't mean because it was gory. i meant because it was so poorly done.One small plus in the entire experience. The actor who played Ron's partner.. I believe his character's name was Mitch.. Did a very credible job.

dellmews There are many versions of the legend of the jersey devil and this is not one of them. I have read many books on the subject and have never heard of this scenario or anything close to it.This movie is titles volume one leading me to think that there may be more ridiculous movies to come.Had this been more like the legend it may have been good. Production wise it was good. Plot wise horrible.I would love to know where these people got the info.I really hope they are not from nj because that would make the whole thing even worse. I no many people who feel the same way i do. I was honesty very upset when i watched this movie. I would hope that any further productions on this subject are more accurate.

christapaulson Well, this film was full of horrible actors, a few were okay, but the majority of the actors sucked. This film really didn't make much sense, the ending sucked. I am glad it was in the cheap area of the video store, because I couldn't imaginepaying full price for this dud.  The whole story did not have any good background info to it, it seemed to have many holes in the story, so you never knew what was really going on. The editing was just too funny, lets just say it looked like an undergrad film project. I guess if you want to waste an hour or so rent this film, but I would suggest you save your buck on this one.