Such a frustrating disappointment

People are voting emotionally.

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

I believe I almost saw this film a number of years ago but snubbed it in order to go with a more promising looking movie. So many years later, in search of a good creature feature, I "legally purchased at full price a copy of the DVD and waited to have it mailed" since that's how we all watch movies in 2012 because torrenting is illegal, right? :)The movie starts off remotely promising, a goreless intro with implied off-screen killings (grrrrr....) that explains how the creature is discovered. We are introduced to a lonely isolated character with huge breasts and a sizeable nose as well (i'm just saying if she was going to go through the trauma of making her boobs so huge she might as well have reshaped her clearly too-large-for-TV nose)I started off kind of liking the main character, she's SOMEwhat relateable in that she struggles with guilt and subsequent alcohol abuse. You get the impression that maybe this girl is someone we can tolerate through the entire film; sadly this is not the case.The movie is limited to about 5 other characters. The sappy love story between our heroine and her boyfriend is developed wayyyy too long just in order for it to end in possibly the stupidest set of decisions made in any horror movie.For a gore lover like me the movie touches on being decent in that aspect but there is definitely a sense of modesty as far as the length of the kill scenes and what the director allows us to see. He certainly lets us see a lot of the creature which looks not similar but looks and exacts completely identical to the creeper in 'Jeepers Creepers'. Not an homage, not similar, but a bit-for-bit recreation and ripoff.Normally I wouldn't have a problem with this since J.C. was a great creature movie (probably the best out of the 2k's) but J.C. excelled because Victor Salva incorporated lots of backstory, mystery, and subsequent fear of the creature based on what we did not know about it or what exactly it was. "It Waits" doesn't really explain the creature other than referencing some Indian religious relation (which i'm not sure is factual lore or not and certainly not intriguing enough to look up.)What i couldn't stand the most was the CLEARLY CONTRIVED INSERTED SOUNDTRACK featuring songs that not only don't belong in the horror movie. The music is so corny in fact I felt like slamming my head into the wall. It's almost like a giant farse of a creature movie in order to plug some "up and coming" artist's new album of boring soft-rock-pop singles.There isn't enough gore for a creature feature. And the few would-be gory shots are quick cutaways or take place off camera for the most part (pure laziness on cgi/special effects/directorial team considering the nature of the movie.) The ending of the movie is equally horrible.I am sure this director is (and was) capable of far better in the realm of drama, but based on this screenplay he was probably left with mostly dead-ends. This movie certainly hits a dead-end relatively early and meanders around for the remaining last 30 minutes. If you enjoy watching unintelligent women with extraordinarly large breasts run around aiming her gun with 0 accuracy then this movie MAY be for you. However if that's your kind of movie I would try and track down one of the "Slumber/Sorority House Massacres" instead.

How many times have we been down this path before? This low-budget production is a basic run-of-the-mill monster on the loose in some backwoods. A demonic creature (of negative energy) from Native American Indian folklore. But you can't argue that it doesn't deliver what it achieves to do. However it's not particularly exciting in its durably slick execution, despite sensational location choices and the best efforts from its dependably committed cast. I had a hard time believing the very beautiful Cerina Vincent in the lead role as a park ranger, but that's not taking anything away from her performance because she does carry the film. Her character is a complex one, albeit rather clichéd in that she's exorcising her own demons and drowning her sorrows with alcohol. Her boyfriend ranger is played by Dominic Zaprogna and he brings a confident likability to the role. For comedy relief a talking exotic parrot is chucked in. While it can labour a bit, there are some eventful moments of suspense with the creature toying with its victims (mainly at the back-end involving Vincent's character) and when it decides to finish the job it does leave a bloody splatter with jolts few and far. Some instances seem laughable though. The camera-work has numerous monster POV shots and that frenetic hand held photography shows up. The monster FX is decently captured and does look impressive when we see it in full sight. Standard, but modest creature-feature entertainment. "If its coming after me. How do I kill it. "

I would have to say this movie was a brilliant horror movie to be counted as an independent film, the script was great and i cant forget about the actors including Cerina Vincent who has to deal with all these inner demons haunting her from the past and this flesh eating native American beast that is hunting and stalking her. And the acting was great you have to like this movie even though it doesn't have buckets of gore you could still have a strong stomach while watching the kills. Its a great horror movie and besides Hot actress Cerina Vincent is in it. The movie does deserve a 10 out of 10 because its a type of horror movie that has mixes of horror and drama in between the movie that makes you want to keep watching and to see what happens to the lead character.

It Waits starts in the Canadian wilderness deep in some forest where some cavers discover something nasty inside a newly found cave... Jump forward 'Two Months Later' where forest ranger Danielle St. Claire (Cerina Vincent) is stuck in a watch tower on her own grieving for her dead friend who recently died in a car accident which she blames herself for, her friend & fellow forest ranger Justin Rawley (Dominic Zamprogna) joins her in an attempt to cheer her up & get into her bed. However they are not alone as an ancient winged creature terrorises them for reasons I have no idea about other than it's an evil creature & that's what evil creatures do for a living...Directed by Steven R. Monroe I thought It Waits was average at best. The script by Richard Christian Matheson, Thomas E. Szollosi & Stephen J. Cannell is rather ponderous & pedestrian, in fact the first 20 odd minutes absolutely nothing of merit happens & is a total snooze-fest. Once the creature turns up things begin to pick up although it seems to want to play games with the forest rangers & scare them although it could just as easily kill them & be done with it. We never really learn about the creature, what it is or where it came from. The character's are clichéd & dull, the dialogue isn't anything to write home about & I'll have forgotten everything about them by the end of today & I hated the boring back-story surrounding Danielle & her dead friend. This is also one of those films that spends a lot of time showing people running through a forest doing noting in particular, or that's how it felt. During the final 20 minutes the pace picks up & it becomes a half decent film although I thought it was too little too late. I don't know, I thought it was all very average, it could have been worse but it could have been better.Director Monroe does a decent job, the scenery is quite nice but but as I said there's too many shots of people walking around. There isn't much atmosphere probably because we know so little about the creature & barely see it until the end & there's no tension or proper scares either. One thing I can say about It Waits is that it has some decent if minor gore effects, while there isn't buckets of blood in it what's here is pretty good including an impalement where someone has a huge branch stuck up their bum in a scene that I'd imagine is a rip-off/homage/reference to Cannibal Holocaust (1980), a decapitated head & their headless body & a couple of mutilated corpses. I think the gore could have been more plentiful but whats here is quite impressive.With a supposed budget of about $1,200,000 It Waits was a pretty well funded film, I have to say I'd have liked to have seen more for that sort of money. There's barely any actors in it, the special effects are used sparingly, there's no action scenes or explosions & it takes place in exactly the same location throughout so where did the money go? I personally thought the acting was poor from everyone involved & the only character to stand out for me was Hoppy the Parrott, enough said.It Waits was average at best & a boring repetitive waste of time at worst, in reality I thought it was somewhere between the two. It's an OK way to pass the time but it's utterly forgettable & a tad dull if I'm honest.