TdSmth5 A surfer finds some cool spot in Mexico and calls his cousin Colin to come over. Colin brings two friends along one of whom is a guy called Lucky some sleazy loner loser who always carries a camera with him. His goal for this trip: to film a surf porno. Also along for the ride are Colin's prospective girlfriend Ashley and her superhot friend Rose.During the trip we learn a couple of things about the kids who make some stops in Mexico and nearly get themselves in trouble. Once they arrive, the cousin and his group are gone. Their vehicles, a car and two motorcycles left there in disarray. Rose pretty quickly starts making her moves on Colin much to the annoyance of Ashley. While the guys go surfing, Lucky goes on an expedition filming what he finds along the way. Eventually he encounters a cliff at the bottom of which are dozens of skeletons and corpses. As he flees and turns his camera he catches a glimpse of some person or creature on the horizon. He also finds the camp where Colin's cousin was. Inside a tent he sees a bloody corpse. Strange things start happening as it gets darker and Lucky disappears. The group splits up, Ashley and the other guy go to the closest town to get help and Rose and Colin stay behind to look for/wait for his cousin. At the town the two kids are told the story behind the surf spot and why the locals avoid it and why no tourists come out of there alive. There's a good background story involving the activities of a cult. Eventually the kids meet up again, although not all make it. The remaining ones will confront the attackers known locally as the Jackals.This movie is quite good considering the budget. The sound and music are first rate. The look of the movie not so much- it has a discolored look to it with red/brown being overemphasized. A bizarre choice since it's all about beach and surfing. The acting is good. All characters are believable. Surfers may be fun guys but they are not interesting. The best character is Rose though and actress Joleigh Fioreavanti /Pulsonetti absolutely steals the show. She's hot and sexy and every scene sizzles when she's in it. It's hard to care for any of the remaining characters other than Lucky. The story is good, in particular the background to our creatures/zombies. There isn't much gore or action but the little there is is filmed well. Overall a fun horror movie that's slightly above average thanks to a good production effort and a sensational performance by Joleigh.

Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki At times creepy variant of The Hills Have Eyes, about a college aged group that goes to an isolated beach in Mexico to surf and to meet up with one of their number's brother and his friends. When they get there, they find the beach seemingly deserted, but that doesn't stop them from surfing and drinking and stripping. One of them videotapes the little striptease that gorgeous Joliegh does, but when playing back the video while whacking off up on the hillside, he sees someone on top of a hill behind watching them. When he goes to investigate he finds a wrecked car and numerous skeletons, and a campsite with newly dead bodies. Someone then kills him, and they proceed to start killing his friends one by one. We learn that this is the result of some sort of a werewolf curse put on the beach, after it was the site of a surprisingly brutal killing and cannibalism decades earlier. I think I would have liked it better if it were just some random person killing them instead of the bit with the curse and the werewolves, or Chupacabra, or whatever the hell kind of animals they were. Invigorting most of the way, but it loses momentum in the last third, when the pacing slows considerably, and several likable characters are heartlessly killed off. Gorgeous Joleigh is brutally (and needlessly) killed off after stereotypically stupid character behaviour, and Javier meets a similar and brutal fate. Now, about the photography: the camera-work goes from shaky and very grainy to tack sharp focus and back and forth at random, all throughout the movie. If that had been used sparingly, it would have been to good effect, giving the movie a grittier look and feel to it. When the paranoia sets in and the characters start to fear for their lives, the camera-work adds to the effect. But when we see characters just simply standing around and talking or surfing, while footage changes from shaky and grainy to crystal clear and shaky, it becomes an overused an annoying gimmick. And an alternate title for this movie could have been "The Attack of the Red Lens Filter", because it looks like the entire movie was filmed through a deep red, or even purple filter, which doesn't help. Overall, this is not a bad, with some suspense to recommend it, but better photography and a better ending would have helped it a lot. Joleigh Fioreavanti is one of the most gorgeous girls in recent memory; her topless scenes are a bonus, also.

mcdougallgreg This film was a nice surprise. The pacing is decent, the acting is good, and the cinematography is on a par with that of much higher budgeted films. Plus, the use of creepy locations in Mexico adds an uneasy atmosphere.The story itself is interesting. Kind of compelling, actually. The set-up with the vacationing friends is nothing to rave about, but the story behind the cursed beach is definitely original. And for once, the kids aren't ANNOYING. Too many low budget horror films seem to think that being an ass is the only way a kid should act. Well, these kids seem fairly realistic and their antics aren't too outlandish. In fact, one antic involves a kid tricking a girl to take off her top on her condition that he doesn't video tape it. This, of course, leads to some nudity that didn't feel forced and is always welcome in a low budget horror film. Plus, the actress showing her - ahem - assets is a natural beauty, so everything is 100% real. Always a plus.This film does have some gore, but is fairly restrained as far as blood-letting is concerned. This film isn't about copious buckets of blood, either. It's about atmosphere. Gore hounds should rent a George Romero film if they want a gore fix, because they won't find it here. And, actually, that's a small quibble that I did have with it. A little more blood would've been nice to see. It really did need a few violent shock moments (think "28 Days Later"), but this didn't detract from my enjoyment of the picture.All in all, a commendable job by all involved. I can think of many other, much higher budgeted films that are far below this effort.

saraland425 This movie on the back says that it is in vein of Dawn of the dead and Shaun of the Dead. Somebody lied!! This movie is completely opposite. The only good thing about this movie is that the girls in it looked good. The rest had really nothing to do with zombies. Do Not rent even if your bored. Stay Bored, go play with yourself or something, anything would be better than this crap. Now I will say this; the weird guy with the camera, i think his name was lucky, got to see the girl topless and then recorded it on the camera. Whats funny though is the fact that 5 seconds later we see him sitting on a rock by himself playing a challenging game of pocket pool, but before he can finish flogging the dolphin he gets scared and runs away. Even though this is sick it just shows that if this was the best part of the movie imagine what the rest of the movie is like.