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The Worst Film Ever

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Was this movie about the Jersey Devil? I think not… Were any of the incidents in the movie related to the folklore that's been told for over 200 years? Again, I think not!I've read every conceivable book, article and documentary that I could find of old JD and this movie doesn't dabble with any of it. There is no documentation anywhere that the Jersey Devil killed people. In the movie however, JD enjoys a blood fest.With all this being said though… Accept the picture as if it has nothing to do with the Jersey Devil. It's still not very good. The story line is weak with not much thought in the direction. The first few minutes of the film grabbed your attention with a little history about JD. Once the story began it slowly went downward and into a climactic crash landing at the end. It was a horrible ending to say the least.I have seen worse… I can say something good about this film… I did enjoy the deleted scenes; one scene in particular was deleted for not being politically correct. When Kathryn gets lost in the Pine Barrens and comes across the Snake Man. She suddenly burst out in anger and despair; "Does anybody around here speak English? Did I take a wrong turn somewhere? Am I in Albania?!"The underscore was well done and Theo Eastwind's cut "7500" is a cool tune."Mankind is so unkind." So am I in giving this film a three star rating.All The Best! ORTSAC

The trouble with small budget movies is that they must often sacrifice too much to get made. I wrote DeathBite with Mr. Maryk. That did very well as a book, but the film company that bought the rights went bankrupt, and the bankers decided to make the film (among other things, hiring a comedy director whose idea of horror was to skip the tension and build-up and go right for the gore)! 'Nuf said? I don't know the specifics of what destroyed 13th Child (producers? director? stars who should say lines and never write them?), but I can attest to the fact that Michael Maryk's original screenplay was nothing like what went onto celluloid. It was tight, coherent, and well paced. It conformed smartly with the essence of the Jersey Devil legend. I'm sorry that you won't get to see that version.

Well, this film was full of horrible actors, a few were okay, but the majority of the actors sucked. This film really didn't make much sense, the ending sucked. I am glad it was in the cheap area of the video store, because I couldn't imaginepaying full price for this dud.  The whole story did not have any good background info to it, it seemed to have many holes in the story, so you never knew what was really going on. The editing was just too funny, lets just say it looked like an undergrad film project. I guess if you want to waste an hour or so rent this film, but I would suggest you save your buck on this one.

Started out with some promise with documentary style of the Curse of the 13th Child and/or the Jersey Devil, but after that starting with the pot smoking hunter it reminded me of a 1974 style , made for TV monster movie. A lot of blurry images of the monster and a camera man's eye view of the victims. This stinker had absolutely nothing to do with the Jersey Devil or the 13th Child (whatever that is). The low budget Devil's choppers had one look to it. A close-up, corn syrup sticking , hard plastic stiff, opening of the jaws. Cheap. The only decent part of this bomb was Cliff Robertson aka Mr. Shroud. He did look like Bela Lugosi in White Zombie. I think Cliff was just having some fun and had the high powered friends to get this onto the shelves and get a writer's credit.