Expected more

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Plenty of people have reviewed this movie so I'll cut to the chase. Most people seem to think it's a zombie movie or the 'creatures' are unexplained. The creatures are people. They are the rednecks of the town on a blood rampage to get rid of those Mexican 'illegals' from their God given town. The photos are shaky because Salazar was running when he took them. With it being night time there no clear shots (so as to keep the fear factor rising). Near the end there are images of the photos mixed with Klan pictures which kind of gives the game away. Most of the Caucasian townspeople have hatred towards the Mexicans and I guess they got drunk one night and decided to take care of business. The smug racist sheriff ensured that Salazar would be the scapegoat and with that racist POS at the radio station encouraging the racism, people thought they had done right and that it served the illegal in jail right to take the fall for the murders. So yeah, I believe it was Klan fans that were the 'monsters'.

I'm not sure how this one is getting such rave reviews? The idea is sound, but the delivery is very poor. The makers seemingly want the viewer to come to their own conclusion, but are heavily biased to what is really happening. No speculation by any of the characters at all. Even when faced with the same photographic "evidence" that we are shown ad nauseam. If we are to interpret this on are own we are given very little choice to do so. Especially with the horrible ending that tries to tidy it up, only giving more bias to what is never spoken about.

I will warn you before I include anything that could spoil the plot for you, so read on without worry:SAVAGELAND is a convincing and effective documentary style horror movie with some fantastic twists, quietly infused political commentary, and a high creep factor. The entire population of a small southern border town is discovered brutally murdered, with the exception of one man: an illegal immigrant with a reputation for being a drifter with the questionable past-time of taking photographs picturing dead animals and a particular young girl. The local authorities and citizens of neighboring towns immediately jump to what might seem an obvious conclusion (depending on your beliefs about undocumented migrants and their tendency to commit violence.) that the man is clearly guilty of this horrific mass murder. But when a roll of film shot that night is discovered it points to events no one seems willing to accept.SAVAGELAND does not fit the standard "horror movie" mold; aside from the many bloody crime scene photos, there is no violence, but that's much of what makes it so great- it's an engrossing, slowly unfolding, undeniably creepy story about the events that may or may not have taken place that night.I am a seasoned horror fan who has grown tired of the same lame plot line they feed us over and over ad nauseum... "A group of teens/college students/friends spend the night in a cabin/an abandoned mental hospital/the woods. They party/have sex/take showers until they're picked off one by one by a ghost/monster/madman." SAVAGELAND gives you a much better story than that, if you can live without the boobs and gore.In closing, I recommend that you DO NOT read the other reviews here, they unintentionally ruined big parts of the story for me, and I wonder how much better it could have been if I had gone in clueless.NOW FOR THE SPOILERS (LOOK AWAY!):Wow! What clever twists in this movie! I love how slowly you begin to question who or what the real killers might be. I also want to give HUGE props to the writers for subtly revealing that the writer- who you assumed had figured out the truth- actually blamed the KKK. Everybody in the movie accused the wrong people: people that they already had a bias against... I can see this actually happening in the US as we are now (sadly) the zombies take out an entire town and we all stand around pointing fingers at each other. WELL DONE!

Slow...very slow, but worth a watch.A very different take on zombie films and though this movie leaves a lot to be desired, a definite "A" for effort.Loads of plot holes and I really don't understand the lack of cast listing.This film is listed here on the IMDb, so it's obviously not real footage, so the lack of listing of ALL cast members is not only a disservice to them, but extremely frustrating.Some trivia on parts of the film that were actually interesting, would have been wonderful.Such as, the town. Was it a real town, possibly abandoned? It looked like it and being a film maker myself, trivia is always an important part of helping immerse a viewer in the world you're creating.More explanation into how the border zombies came to be and less on the survivor, would have helped.As I said...great concept, good movie...but needed a LOT of help to see its full potential.