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STILL SHAKING, WHAT A FIVE STAR 🎞 FILM THIS IS

Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2021

WHAT IS SO DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS 🎥 MOVIE. IT IS SERIOUSLY SCARY, NO FOOLING AROUND. THERE IS A GREAT DEAL OF GORE
AND RAWNESS THROUGHOUT, SO MATURE TEENS MAY WISH TO OPT OUT. HAVING SAID THAT, DO NOT SEE IT ALONE. SIX PEOPLE,
WHO STARTED OUT AS FRIENDS TAKE A LITTLE SOJOURN TO AN ABANDONED HOUSE. HAVE WE HEARD THIS BEFORE? WELL, YOU
HAD BETTER START CHILLING OUT VERY SOON AND HAVE YOUR 🍿 + 🍕 EARLY IN THE 🎞 . ONCE THIS GETS COOKING THE FOOD CONCESSION IS OUT AND HOLDING HANDS ARE IN. YOU ALL KNOW BY NOW THERE IS A GROTESQUE CREATURE LURKING ABOUT.
GOOD PLOT, SPECTACULAR DIRECTION AND SPECIAL EFFECTS, MULTIPLE PARTS OF HUMAN INNARDS FREELY FLOATING. AS THE
DENOUEMENT, I.E. UNRAVELING BECOMES CLEAR, YOU MAY BEGIN SMALL WAGERS ON WHETHER THERE WILL BE A SINGLE
SURVIVOR. A SUPER TWIST LIKE A 🍋 AT THE FINAL SECONDS. I WILL NOT SAY A WORD MORE, EXCEPT.........BOO. GREAT FILM.

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James C Smith

Good But Not Great

Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2021

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This movie is neither outstanding, nor is it truly awful.

If you're bored, like basic horror movies, and are searching for something to entertain, this isn't a bad choice.

The premise and story are both simple and straightforward. Teens go into woods. Monster hunts them down.

Most of the acting is fairly decent, and some is quite good. The dialog is fine-- neither compelling nor ridiculous.

In a not-so-small way, the story borrowed quite heavily from the likes of "Night of the Living Dead", by having the cast spend most of the movie barricaded in a house in the middle of nowhere at night, trying to keep out something very nasty that simply wants to eat them.

The design of the creature was fairly good. It seemed pretty original to me. And the director did a nice job on slowly revealing its looks, without taking forever to do it.

Not a bad one-time viewing.

2.5 STARS

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James C Smith

Good But Not Great

Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2021

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Ates71

It's OK

Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2021

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It covers no new ground as some mentioned but, sadly, does contain many cliches of the genre.

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It reminded me of the movie called Feast, a similar unknown type of monster(s) attacking a group of people taken shelter in a truck stop or bar type of place. To me, that was a more entertaining movie but this one is OK too.

Since it is a relatively recent movie, there is that PC diversity and relationship of some of the characters that seemed uncommon if not odd.

Anyhow, you, too, might enjoy this if you can overlook the annoyances and cliches. Acting is OK, I gave it an extra star for the creature makeup and SFX.

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Ozzieal

It's all been done before.....

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2016

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There's nothing really wrong with 'Animal' except that it does absolutely nothing new.

A group of young friends venture out into the wilderness for a hike and end up meeting a nasty creature. They are herded into an old house where they are picked off one by one. Sound familiar? This is the problem. If you've seen any of these 'run around and scream' movies you've seen this one too. This may be a bit harsh, as it isn't the cheapest production around and the creature is very well done. But there isn't anything to really set the film apart. There could have been an attempt to explain how and why the creature was there and how it had in fact evolved. And there is another group of people who are brought in (really just as more 'food' for the creature and to bulk up the time) who also have no explanation or back story. These were wasted opportunities to do something (anything) original.

But it is what it is. If you have never seen a creature movie before you might find this fun, and will appreciate the good creature design. If you have a surround sound setup you could appreciate the decent 5.1 sound and the way this helps set the scene with forest noises and creature sounds coming from all around the sound stage. But otherwise, this is strictly by-the-numbers horror.

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A. Johnson

It's ok

Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2022

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So you see Ke Ke Palmer in the beginning playing one character and then immediately plays another. So you couldn't find any other black actresses???? Hmmmmm interesting and dumb....you let the "pregnant girl" be the only person to survive....hmmmmm ok. Decent watch tho. Just not well thought out

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Valentino Massimo

Final White Girl

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2021

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Damn! I sat through this horrible mess, feeling pretty good that the "Final Girl" would be the black, pretty, brainiac. Even that there would be two, Final Girls. alas, racist tropes must prevail. Damn! waste of time. One more thing, acting, as a profession, requires real humility. No way I would put my self through this BS, just to work.

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Tracey Weiss

I really wanted to like this

Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2020

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It had the right elements. Good actors like Eve Jeffers and Jeremy Sumpter, decent monster, and plenty of personal conflict. But, for some reason it just didn't do it for me. I think it was just way too formulaic. I've seen too many movies like it and there weren't any surprises.

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Graeme Smith

If you like hearing the word "go" repeated 28,000 times...

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2022

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For a fairly generic "cabin in the woods" movie, this actually wasn't bad. There was some nice woodland photography in my home state of Connecticut, the cast wasn't made up of entirely of VWTs (vapid white teens) from southern California, and none of the characters were particularly unlikable, except for Douglas, but he was supposed to be. The gay guy was fairly annoying, and his out-of-nowhere confession was just bizarre. I was relieved when Alissa cut him off by saying they couldn't be doing this right now. Nice to hear someone talk sense in a type of movie where people normally behave like morons. Even better that it was a girl. The monster itself looked pretty good. I was pleased that the effects were mostly practical and not lousy CGI. There was a bit too much yelling and screaming and arguing, but that's to be expected in a movie like this. I must say, though, that cabin didn't look like it could stop an 8-year-old from breaking in, let alone some kind of super beast.

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nina

Only Good if You Like Jeremy or Keke

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2015

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This was an okay film. I have to admit I only watched it because Jeremy Sumpter and Keke Palmer were in it. It's so refreshing to see a black chick as the lead in a horror movie AND with a hot boyfriend. Eve was in it too but unfortunately had only a tiny part in the beginning. There was nothing great or unique about it but an okay film to watch when nothing else is on. It's entertaining yet a little silly like many creature films of today.

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Gregg R. Sims

Cheap

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2021

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All right movie, low budget. Really not worth the price, you hardly see the animal.

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Grelber37

Animal has the goods well-enough

Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2014

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Animal is decent horror. Some night, watch it to get your horror on. You might prefer the unrated cut that Amazon makes available. The movie's intensity and gore are pretty good. Obviously, everyone on-line admires the creature design. The monster looks good in the movie too.

Animal's plot is familiar, however. In fact, Chiller's Animal is very similar to Chiller's Beneath, but Animal surpasses the fish story's quality a little. Perhaps, take a shot everytime that Animal's characterization or plot resembles Beneath. I liked Animal well enough. Any horrorfan should enjoy this cinematic snack as much as the titular character enjoys his human ones.

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