A captured chupacabra destined for a research lab is accidentally released in Los Angeles, and a hired good is sent to recapture it.
Meanwhile, a skeptical animal control officer investigating a series of animal mutilations is approached by an author and cryptozoologist who claims the culprit can only be a chupacabra, and a pair of police detectives investigate a grizzly murder, in which they believe the victim was mutilated by a psychopath with a modified garden rake.
Wow, this movie is a mess.
The dialogue is clunky, the acting appalling and the editing bizarre; At times the story seems to vanish completely as the movie resolves into a mess of seemingly unrelated scenes.
How bad is the script? The cops are, I think, supposed to be providing some form of comic relief, but in truth are no more stupid / funny / bizarre than any of the other cast, Mexican characters are easily identified my their over use of the filler words "ese" and "homes", and the cryptozoologist, on why mutilated dogs, rather than mutilated goats, are being found, helpfully explains "goats are found primarily in areas with large populations of goats". To top it all off, people constantly act in a way no human being would act; in front of his partner, and another witness, of of the cops shoots a guy in the leg at almost point blank range, as the punchline to a joke!
The camera work is appalling, stopping just short of cropping people's heads out of shot (except at that one moment where it literally crops people's heads out if shot), the 180 degree rule is clearly something the DP has never heard of, rendering a simple car chase near impossible to follow.
A bizarre colour filter has been added in post to 90% of the outdoor shots, but as distracting as it is, it's even worse when it suddenly stops... Frankly, the only positive thing I can say about this movie is that the creature looks (taking into account the film's obviously low budget) great! Sure, it's obviously a man in a suit, but it's a man in a pretty cool suit!
In fact, I'm going to go out on a limb here, and guess that one of the guys behind this movie wanted to make a chupacabra suit, and the rest of the movie followed from there.
Avoid.
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