31 Days of Horror 2025 Day 25 Swamp Devil

 

TITLE-Swamp Devil

SOURCE-Maneater Series Triple Pack DVD

I grew up seeing the 50s/60s and 70s creature features on  tv. Sometimes with a host sometimes not. Which is partially why when I find a pack like the  one pictured above for a buck I take a chance. Yea all three films are CGI crapfest made for SYFY channel. But sometimes they can be decent and sometimes you want the movie version of eating a dozen Krystals with cheese for dinner.

Swamp Devil has a young lady returning to the town where she was born. After her mother passed her father pretty much abandoned her. She gets a call saying her father is dying and she comes back to take care of him. The father is played by the only name in the cast,Bruce Dern.

Right when she arrives at the town a guy about her age welcomes her. She wonders how he knows her when she moved from the town when she was still fairly young. He is the son of the local diner owner. 

This takes a bit to get going. First kill happening around the 30 minute mark. And besides being pure CGI it isn't bad. Yea there is almost no blood. Really besides a few uses of the word fuck nothing in this would warrant a R rating. 

Over the course of about 90 minutes we learn that our lead's dad and some other guys beat a guy to death for a crime he did. And tossed his body in the swamp. Now his spirit possesses what looks like Groot and Swamp Thing had a kid that was a cut scene from a PS2 game. 

The acting isn't bad. The story is one you have seen before but done fairly well here. And for a low budget movie the CGI is decent, If there was a few more kills this would be one I would recommend to almost anyone that likes horror.

I do enjoy how early on the rules for the Swamp Devil are set. And then used to kill him at the end. Plus of course we get a teaser for a sequel.

Worth seeing,thinking this is streaming on TUBI or Fawesome for free. And if you like modern CGI creature features it is worth grabbing on DVD for cheap.

Swamp Devil gets a C+

31 Days of Horror Day 07 Flying Monkeys

Flying Monkeys
2013
Sony DVD

Sometime last year I saw that this film was going to air on Syfy Channel. It looked super cheesy,but sometimes these Syfy Channel films can be fun.

Filled with allusions to The Wizard of OZ,like how the town is named Gale,this is the tale of a young lady who gets a pet monkey. Each night when the sun sets the monkey morphs into a killer flying monkey. Who looks like a first gen PS1 graphic.

Through long ass boring scenes we find out that there is only a few flying monkeys left in the world. And two vaguely Asian looking people are in charge of hunting them. We find out that if you kill a flying monkey with any weapon that isn't one of the "holy" ones,they come back to life and create a duplicate.


Now the acting isn't bad. The story is pretty good. But the horrible flying monkey effects hurt this movie so much. I expect cheesy cgi when I watch a Syfy film. But the CGI in this film are almost as bad as Birddemic.

Flying Monkeys gets a D.