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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

The Worst Film Ever

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

It is hard for most to pull themselves away from all the tech crawl crap of our modern, lame times. Yet for those with an appreciation for survival and self reliance, you will know the merits or setting out on your own.To live out in the woodlands, let alone survive in a situation of duress or sickness , without hospitals, restaurants or everything we take for granted in our cities, such a situation can be terrible indeed.For a seemingly predictable tale of a family's camping sojourn gone awry , I thought I knew where it was going. MY mind sought the closest movie in a similar setting I could think of, being Antichrist with Willam Dafoe. And that movie , just as The Barrens, had its ups and downs in terms of quality, not just suspense.But The Barrens was something I could identify with at its most nervous or sickly. Having lived in the mountains, surrounded by nature, when something happened, you had to be prepared yourself. PERIOD. Money was no good either. Couldn't pay a tree for entertainment or bribe an animal for the meat off its bones. Whatever you came with, you had to use it and hope you prepared well enough. And having been ill out there, alone, in the fallen snow and deathly cold, I know what its like to suffer from illness with no recourse but to trudge onward.Though the acting was a tad on the lame side, I still appreciated it at its most basic level. There was little CG which allowed for appreciation of the natural surroundings. Which is what its all about. Myths about forest dwelling monsters or creatures that go bump often are part myth expanded upon a truth so ancient and nearly forgotten that the moral is lost: Nature will always have its way, there's no good or bad. Just a beginning and an end.I would say its a high end B movie at best, which compared to all I have seen, is high praise lol. Happy Trails.

For some sort, I'm kinda intrigue with this movie that I decided to rent and watch it. The story, okay, its unique! The actors were good in their acting! But I think, something is really missing at first that you as a viewer will hold on to the movie, guessing if its really happening or not. Making you fool until the ending really?? I do enjoy this, but actually made me disappointed as well like in some movies that had its same genre. I actually like how the story become twisted. The turn of events do made me oh really? But the ending, really I don't know? I think I'm not convinced. When I'm able to see some deleted scenes that its DVD has. Well when I watched it, kinda relief but why with the movie? I think because its not actually possible. But I can say, I did enjoy the ride!

I knew very early in the movie that the father character was going to go around the bend. While some of the early scenes of the film did look as if they'd been shot in the actual Pine Barrens, it soon became apparent that they'd actually been shot somewhere very else. I've been to the Pine Barrens several times, and they just don't look like the stand-in forest at all. You certainly won't see any 20-foot-high rock faces in Wharton State Forest. You'd be lucky just to find a rock. And as for the Devil itself, let's just say that NO part of the Jersey Devil legend includes it eviscerating deer and throwing them on the road or killing people in economy-sized bunches.To sum up, the scenery was generic, the characters were horror-movie generic, the monster's behavior was bad-horror-movie generic, and the whole film could have easily been about some other kind of monster. I think the only reason they went with the Jersey Devil for this movie was because it was one of the few folk legend creatures left that hadn't already had a bad movie made out of its story.

No pun intended with that summary line. The movie really sets the bar above average and tries to give you a story you can hang on to. This may be from the guy who did 3 of the Saw movies (as director, he was involved in more than those prior to directing them), but that does not mean you get to see many violent scenes here. You will mostly witness the aftermath of something.It is important for the story that this happens like that. And we're back to the story department. Either you'll like where this is going (more psychological) or you will repelled by it. The main actor has to pull quite some weight. And I think he does a good job doing so. Mia Kirshner: I almost didn't recognize her. But she does more than a decent job in this too. The ending will once again split the audience. Those that remained and watched it through that is. Not perfect, but more than a solid effort