Bozo Being one who was born and raised in South Jersey and near the Pine Barrens, I just had to see this movie. I read all the negative comments and ratings and braced myself for the worst. However, I was not all that disappointed.OK, so I gave this movie a HUGE benefit of the doubt, being a huge fan of South Jersey folklore and of the Jersey Devil, and also a fan of horror movies. But I still did enjoy it for the most part. It was good and bad.The Good: Cliff Robertson gave a great performance as Mr. Shroud, the mysterious Native American descendant. Christopher Atkins was also good as Ron, the park ranger and Gano Grills was good as Mitch, his partner. Robert Guillaume was excellent as Riley, the former cop.Aside from the acting, the basic story was great. And what made it better was that it was really filmed in New Jersey, particularly in Batsto village/park. But they did a good job of making it into Shroudsberg Manor. Also, I personally laughed at the Piney Hunter. I thought he was the funniest person.Although they changed the Jersey Devil legend, they did a good job in keeping with South Jersey history. They put the Lenni Lenape as the Natives there, which is true.The Bad: Michelle Maryk was downright awful as Kathryn, the D.A. assistant sent to investigate. Leslie-Anne Down was good but...why such high billing? She was only in the movie for a minute or 2. Seems like the good actors were given the small roles. Michelle Maryk got WAY too much screen time, I see why they gave her such a low billing, I wouldn't advertise her myself.The effects were not so great, and the camera-work was a bit shaky at times. The editing was awful, and the text on screen was badly put together. The time changes were confusing, but I actually sort of did get them. And they changed the legend, but I understand why.Over all: Not a movie for everyone. Mainly one for South Jersey locals.If you go to watch: Put it in your mind that this will be pretty bad and that the legend was changed, it will be easier to sit through then.6/10.

rixrex You can't go wrong when you buy a tape or DVD for 1 or 2 dollars. If you don't like it, just sell it and pass it along, and you're not out much at all if anything, but this one is one that I'll keep. A nice and eerie telling of the Jersey Devil folklore without being grossly gory. Some here say that it's not being honest to the folklore, but then again it's FOLKLORE. Overall, I would not give it a 9 or 10, I'd say that it's more deserving of a 5 or 6, but there are three things that made me jack up the rating. One, a super performance by Cliff Robertson that is spooky enough but not hammy, tough for good dramatic actors to do with horror material. Two, very cool way that the creature manages to get in and out of locked places, worthy of comparison to the best X-files. Three, the idiots who gave it an undeserved zero or one, that's worth a couple extra points right there. (same ones who give this comment the NO vote) These are the type who are sour on anything that isn't a gorefest of unredeeming violence. You know the type, they think the remake of TCM is better than the original, and they think Hitchcock's Psycho was boring between the killings and should have been in color. Oh, wait a minute, yeah, that was done already!

dellmews There are many versions of the legend of the jersey devil and this is not one of them. I have read many books on the subject and have never heard of this scenario or anything close to it.This movie is titles volume one leading me to think that there may be more ridiculous movies to come.Had this been more like the legend it may have been good. Production wise it was good. Plot wise horrible.I would love to know where these people got the info.I really hope they are not from nj because that would make the whole thing even worse. I no many people who feel the same way i do. I was honesty very upset when i watched this movie. I would hope that any further productions on this subject are more accurate.

BRJ1026 A few friends and I live here in New Jersey and when we watched this movie we were extremely disappointed. Living in New Jersey we've heard many stories about the Jersey Devil and this movie is nowhere near the stories I've heard. This movie seemed like it was planned out in about 15 minutes and even the actors were not very impressive either. The quality of the film was bad and sometimes the shot didn't even fit onto the television screen. This movie was poorly done and I feel the writers could have at least made the story sound more similar to the legend itself and not about a shape shifting Indian from 200 years ago. In my opinion, don't waste your time because my friends and I sure did.