Diane Ruth Director and writer Jorg Ihle has brought all the elements of an exceptional horror film together and fashioned something fresh and unique in cinema. A truly frightening motion picture experience, with an overwhelming atmosphere of unholy dread and tension of an intensity seldom captured on film. Jewel Staite gives an Oscar worthy performance in the role of a young woman who finds herself fighting for her own survival, her lover's, and their companions on a island of pure evil. Creatures pursue them in scenes of relentless horror and she must summon the courage to meet the challenge of unimaginable terribleness. The characterizations are finely developed and as the story progresses, we find ourselves caring deeply for these very richly drawn individuals. No audience member could possibly ignore the plaintive cries of Jewel Staite. They are bone chillingly real, as is the horror under the superb director Jorge Ihle.

jlthornb51 Director Jorg Ihle works from his own imaginative script and brings this exciting film to the screen with style and creativity. Lovely and gifted actress Jewel Staite gives a superb performance and effectively steals this movie from the rest of the cast without too much trouble. Staite lights up the screen each time she appears and when she isn't in a scene, the film suffers for it. The thrills come fast and furiously and a group of people on an island fight for their very lives against indescribable creatures of horror. While there is indeed blood shed in this motion picture, it is within reason and not excessive when it features such intense depictions of beasts devouring humans. Truly terrifying at times and as genre cinema, actually very, very satisfying.

tohu If you read my reviews you'll see that I'm not one for hyperbole. But, all things considered, this really is one of the worst films I have ever seen.A group of young rich Americans - who have various relationship issues between them - get on a yacht to sail off to a party. The boat sinks and they find themselves stranded on a mysterious island where they must battle to survive against a tribe of murdering sub-humans.Yes it's all been done before, and there is NOTHING in this film that even attempts originality. But that's not the main problem. I can't tell you how bad it is. The relationships between the characters are poorly developed, the characters themselves are one-dimensional and unsympathetic, the acting is bottom-rate, the plot pointless, the direction annoying.I usually try not to spoil in my reviews but this film is so bad I don't want you to waste your time seeing it, so I'll give you an example: One character is attacked by the creatures and dragged off into the jungle while he sleeps. He wakes to find his shin-bone broken and sticking out through his skin (he has noticed none of this as he slept). This kind of injury must surely be one of the most painful things possible, yet when he (eventually) notices it he winces as though he has been stung by a bee, then calmly ties the bone with a splint, gets up and starts walking around seemingly un-perturbed. Later we see him running.Characters are seemingly killed off one by one, only to be seen again later being tortured by the creatures - and then killed anyway. As the plot rambles on, the tribe seems to have some kind of mysterious agenda, and it turns out they are selective in which humans they kill, but by the time we discover this there is only one human character left and she has no-one to talk to, so we don't get to know why.Sometimes films are so bad they are actually funny, and they develop cult status. That won't happen to this one, because it doesn't even have any heart. Even if you like gore, the killings are not all that bloody so you'll be disappointed on that level too. Overall, by the time the closing credits roll it really is a relief, and you just wonder: why did they bother?In all my IMDb reviews over the years, I have never given a move a '1' rating before. It seems there's a first time for everything!

Jill A bunch of pretty, but stupid, people set sail on a ship. First the main character's stupid boyfriend doesn't pay attention to her when she warns him that the ship is on the wrong course. Then we find out he's cheating on her. Then they crash land on an island in the middle of nowhere. Then he proposes to her. Then she stupidly says yes. Then a bunch of people die. Then she outwits the creatures that killed all her stupid friends but since there's nothing left she decides to inflate the escape raft that survived the shipwreck, not pack any provisions and paddle aimlessly out to sea, probably to die.I understand why this film was not deemed good enough to see the light of day in the US - there is no real meat to the plot. Except all the pretty, stupid people, who are eaten by "the forgotten ones", whose history is never adequately revealed. And that could have made for an okay exposition, but instead we get a bunch of crude humor, which includes the main character's pants getting ripped off by one of the creatures, leaving her with only bikini bottoms in which to run Baywatch-like across the beach to her ultimate death sentence.