After the crash, they wake up trapped in a basement, the unwilling guests of some sort of a human gatekeeper and his caged and chained flesh-eating monster - with abysmal makeup and design - it's a bloke with a rug over his shoulders and mask on! That picture of the creature on the poster has not one tincture of resemblance to the one in the film! You might expect the family to panic and feel terror - but actually, they all seem pretty calm about it. The acting from the whole cast is diabolical.
The creature is served up humans by the gatekeeper as it can only live on human flesh. So it's his job to keep providing fodder (by, in this case, snagging a family of four by staging the car crash). Eventually, the family are given an ultimatum - who is first?! If they don't decide, Mr Gatekeeper will!
It takes them sometime to start to work together to overcome the creature and gatekeeper. At this point we're shown where what budget there was went - the prosthetics of bits of human body half-eaten. It's not at all convincing. How they can dub this film with a 'horror' label I don't know!
There's zero suspense or tension throughout, just poor acting. There's zero atmosphere, hand-held camera throughout, dreadful soundtrack and production values which would feel at home in Llamageddon or Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey!
The director is Andrea M Catinella who has other projects of a similar loony approach, like Mouseboat Massacre and Piglet, so I should have expected this really! It's amazing that people can make films like this - or want to. I guess they must think they can make some money from it somehow. Keep your £2.99 in your pocket instead of giving it to Amazon Prime Video, unless you want to see, wide-eyed, for yourself - or financially support this tomfoolery!
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