Please don't spend money on this.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

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.

I picked this up in the bargain section of my local supermarket.The first few scenes, set in 1922, set up a nice teaser for the remainder of the main feature.That is where it lost any sense of suspense.The dialogue was corny. The characters were too flat.I must admit, the only reason I decided to buy it was for Jewel Staite - she was the only name I recognised - She was great as Kaylee in Firefly and as Jennifer Keller in Stargate Atlantis.Apparently someone called 'Kellan Lutz' is well known so this may well appeal to his fan-base.The monsters were never fully explored or developed. I guess that maybe some of the screenplay ending up on the cutting room floor.The cinematography was fair to middling but the dark scenes didn't have enough contrast at times.The biggest disappointment for me was the 'crazy credits' at the end where the makers thanked everybody including Mel Gibson, Sly Stallone and then engaged in listing the proponents of the world's major religions, totally unwarranted.I would have given this one star but for the fact that Jewel Staite was in it and managed to be the most believable character of all.It's an hour and 25 minutes I won't get back but maybe this will save you from the same sense of anticlimax.This title was released in the UK as "After Dusk They Come".

This movie was awful. The intro was cool, beginning was standard with a lame twist, and then it was just boring from then on. The monsters seemed cool at first but the way they acted was too human, but obviously that was the point because they are called a tribe or spoken of as humans. It was just so silly how one acted towards the end, it was like animals with a code of chivalry, so lame. It's like the director didn't know what direction to take these "people" in. The ending was utterly stupid, there is one lone survivor, and she just sits at the end of the beach, and minutes are wasted watching her sit there, seemed like minutes. At one point during the movie there was what appeared to be her dead bf, but it wasn't, BUT THEN WHERED THAT FRESH BODY COME FROM? And this many decades old tent was unbelievably still in tact, give me a break. There was just so many stupid things about this movie, it's not worth watching. And no, there were no hot girls, not to me.

It is hard to fill ten lines of comment for this movie. What has to be said? Well, the monsters are monstrous, the girl pretty (in some common way), the island mysterious. All of them do their job. Cinematography is not that bad, you just get the sense of people lost in a wild forest. Of course the writer had to fill some space with irrelevant anthropology about characters that are not even mean enough to deserve such misfortune or so nice to make you cry. As a matter of facts monsters look more interesting and complex. I would have liked that some destiny, or original sin had pushed the humans to that place. It would have meant some stars more.