Good title. Nix means "nuthin'" in German slang. Even one of the characters know this, yet she says it without a trace of irony.
"This isn't an animal. This isn't nothing."
No, it IS nothing. In fact, it is a clean zero. I was bored out of my wits, saved only slightly by a few unintentional laughs. The 5.3 average is a phenomenon, a far greater mystery than the one this awful movie offers us. Normally, cheapies such as this one have an average lower than 4.0, hence I am warned to avoid them. But for some (fake/manipulated/swarm-vote) reason, even after 1500 votes this thing isn't sinking like a rock to join the rest of the filmic debris in the B-movie ocean of forgotten and discarded rubbish.
Low-budget tedium with unbearably drippy dialog, bad acting (especially the male lead), a very corny soundtrack, a dumb plot, feeble direction, cheap-ass mood, and the usual other nonsense.
A family loses their daughter, and the reason she drowns is totally contrived, unconvincing, almost laughable. Very poor writing. The rest of the movie is unraveling this "mystery", in ways that are always very boring, utterly unconvincing, and full of far-fetched twists and lame plot-devices.
Decades later, her brother finds the "witch" (or whatever she is), and tells her "you were there that day! Just stay away from my family!" Weird. How did he know this? Worse, he doesn't try to punish her for being involved? Insult her at least? Cuss her out? Question her about his sister's demise? Very very silly. It takes him ages to finally talk to her again, afterwards, and it wasn't even his idea! He needed to be coaxed into it. He is the self-appointed quasi-detective working at solving the mystery - yet has to be coaxed to interview possibly the most important witness! It is indeed an amazingly bad script. Sort of like "I wanna solve this mystery - but you stay away from me because you may have been involved!"
This guy is so dumb, he lets his insane mother alone in the woods with his little niece, and of course things go South. Then a barely convincing monster starts pestering them, but he is so inept he can't even smash through a car's window to snatch the guy's girlfriend.
Who is btw the only positive thing about this crap. A very charismatic, attractive actress. (No, not the monster - I mean his girlfriend!) Unfortunately, her parents aren't called Paltrow, Gyllenhaal, Carradine, Barrymore, Travolta, Aniston, Fiennes, Coppola or Fonda, so she has to content herself with playing in such pitiful movies. No A-list career handed to her on a silver plate.
The little girl is visited by her junkie mother (a very poor stereotype and badly played by a semi-amateur actress) in a bizarre scene, then she suddenly gets snatched by the monster.
There's a big facepalm moment when the film tries to be "clever" by using the time-warp cliche. Instead of being a big moment, it came off as very silly, even desperate. Besides, there is no explanation whatsoever WHY the protagonist is able to go back in time. He just is. There is a "magic camera" and that's it - voila: he's back 30 years.
In the past he finds out how things played out, namely that his mother killed his father right after their daughter drowned. A scene that had me laughing, because it's so stupid and cheesy, like nearly everything else. There are a few other laughs during the very chaotic final third, including a ridiculous scene when the lead is introduced to the monster by his mother, yet almost ignores it when he tells her "stop with all the lies". What a moronic scene.
Ed Wood says hi. He couldn't have written it any "better".