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If you’re not in a hurry to get anywhere, this may be the film for you, because it sure takes its sweet time. It is barely over an hour but you’ll feel like you’ve been watching a 10-part epic from Ken Burns.
FX are better than say, Birdemic, but are worse than something that is marginally better than Birdemic. 
Glacially paced and acted as if everyone was bored on and off camera.
You could have maybe saved this with some tighter direction and editing, but you’d never have come close to a feature length film. (And that would NOT have been a bad thing.)

Sex, Dracs, and rock ‘n’ roll!

Two distinct halves to the story makes it feel like two shorter films smashed together. Throw in some scenes of naked debauchery, bookended by some of Britain’s most distinguished actors, and you get something that is “Bloodsuckers.”
Bizarre film. 

At least it wasn’t sharks.
I thought this was something else when I started it. Wasn’t there a film with this premise actually in the theaters that was somewhat successful?!
This one is NOT good. LOL the writing, the acting, and the CGI is so sub par, and don’t get me started on just the basic premise and the apparent magical abilities of the alligators.

Well, there ARE beach girls, and there IS a monster… sort of.
It’s like someone tried to make a sexier Scooby Doo episode, except there is no dog and it really isn’t all that sexy.
I suppose there is that talking lion. I mean, it’s a puppet but the more I think of it… Jinkies! I think that is exactly what it is!

I really do have a soft spot in my heart for this sorta of film.
Obviously done with a small budget, but done so with earnest and with the help of friends, family, and locals.
The creatures look ridiculous, but the suit actors at least tried to make them seem threatening and inhuman.
The music is actually pretty good too, and the beach scenes are at least as much fun as any “beach blanket” genre film.

I guess it was fine. I chuckled a few times, but mostly just shook my head in disbelief.
There is parody, and then there is something like this.

Christopher takes this thriller from Derek Diorio for a test drive. Listen to see what he thought of 2026’s EVEL

The special effects look like they were bought from a Doctor Who fire sale, and the villains scheme is never truly explained, but I’ll be damned if it wasn’t an enjoyable watch!
What it lacks visually, it makes up for with everyone giving it their all with whatever it was they had to work with.

Ben Rock directed the previously reviewed ALIEN RAIDERS and worked as the Production designer on THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. We sit down and have a lengthy discussion on both films, and then some!

A fairly solid big budget “B-movie.”
The cast is immaterial, as they are interchangeable. Anyone could have starred, but they chose some recognizable names.
The action is a bit too frenetic at times. That may work better in a theater setting, but not so much on home viewing.
No new ground broken here, but it was well done for what they did.
I DID appreciate that the movie did not go down the trope of an infected person immediately going to the dark side. This had the character using his new found abilities to actually try to help his friends. That was at least refreshing.