Chupacabra Territory (2016) User Reviews (17)

You give Found Footage A Bad Name.

[rapid_randy · 3/10 · 5 October 2016]

A group of friends take a trip to the country in search of the illusive Chupacabra. It begins with the road trip and the characters they meet along the way and then to the woods where it remains until the end.

Chupacabra Territory is the type of found footage that gives the genre a bad name. It's badly written with multiple cringe worthy scenes. The acting is the equivalent of a high school play with a script that could have been written by a fifteen year old boy. The acting is horrible but they really didn't have much to work with. Although the cast seem to be in their late 20's, they speak to each other like teenagers obsessed with boobs and booze. There are masturbation and sex scenes which do absolutely nothing for the story. The conversations and interactions between the friends are awkward, nonsensical, and unrealistic. I'm certain the locals they come in contact with are meant to be comical but got a face palm instead of chuckles out of me.

I'll never understand how a film can fail on so many levels with a decent story line, good cameras, and a presumed group of creative people. You'd think that someone would attempt to save the project before going through with such a disaster that will be there for the public to see forever.

I love Found Footage and this is an abomination of the genre. Avoid at all costs and check out the ever growing list of creative films which use this platform redefine what a movie can be.

And why in the world they didn't use any Groovie Ghoulies or Chixdiggit songs about Chupacabras is beyond me. I'd given an extra point for the research and good taste but this movie lacks both.

Why would I check his pulse. He's dead

[nogodnomasters · 4/10 · 2 August 2017]

An unarmed group of young adults travel to North Pineland Territory at Lake Emerald, California with hopes of actually finding the meat eating Chupacabra. The group is lead by amateur cypto-zoologist and part time psychic Amber (Sarah Nicklin). They do the filming the car trip to build character and we instantly hope Morgan (Alex Hayek) our cynical voice of reason, is the first to die. Like a good slasher film, they stop for gas and meet the crazy local. They had some issues along the way but eventually make it to the woods where they meet up with people to add to the victim total.

This is a found footage tape. The beginning blurb claims it was made in 2013 and released by the FBI under the FOIA. The movie includes The "what is that" cam, ground cam, person dragged on the ground cam (final scene in 50% of these films), night screaming cam, and jerk cam, And for our viewing pleasure we have a boob cam and sex cam...cowgirl and doggy.

There is a guy in the background in an SCBA in a few of the scenes. Why? I still don't know. Very rare and quick glimpses of the creature.

Guide: F-word, sex, nudity ( Sarah Nicklin, Megan Hensley) The three ladies in the film also appeared together in "Alice D."

Complete waste of time

[MoviesRT · 3/10 · 11 January 2018]

This is one of those badly scripted student films that have a cast of really terrible actors who are so obnoxious that you wish the chupacabra would have come out in the first 15 minutes and killed them all to save us the idiocy that follows. I think I would have enjoyed it better to see these snotty brats torn to pieces by a goat monster or whatever it was supposed to be, but that was not to be...

Part way in, we were laughing and joking about how this should have be an ad for the discovertheforest.org campaign - "why morons who know nothing about nature should not go traipsing around in the woods in the middle of the night. "

There are some really funny scenes though. Near the beginning, one guy freaked out when a tree branch fell near him. The nutty scenes with the "psychic" girl were pretty funny too.

If you stay with this atrocity long enough you can laugh at this "psychic" girl (who says she's a part-time witch as well) goes into convulsions near a tree. And later she gets possessed presumably by the chupacabra after performing a ritual out of some book that was supposedly made from the skin of the chupacabra. Are you still following? Now tell me honestly, is that the dumbest thing you ever heard?

And if she really was a real psychic, she would have never gone on this dumb camping trip with these goofballs in the first place. Half the time, she's such a bad actress she looks likes she's laughing instead of screaming. I guess the script was too funny to take seriously.

As usual, none of this makes any sense.

There's an old rule for horror movies. It's only scary if you care about what happens to the characters. This wasn't even slightly scary. I found myself rooting for the monster even though we really never saw it.

I always wonder how these movies get the funding. And how in the world did it get a 6.3 rating when every review I've read gave it a 3 or less? I guess I know, but it's sad you can't trust the ratings on this site.

Not Asylum bad, but bad.

[Patient444 · 3/10 · 5 October 2016]

So, without going in with any kind of expectations, I pressed Play at this Chupacabra Territory, as I found it. The movie started out nicely, I actually enjoyed it and time only brought more interesting things to the act.

And for around 60% of the movie, I can say I was surprised and satisfied. It seemed like a cute little indie project, good dialogue, nice characters and an alright build up. But then it hit that mark I was telling you about and it pretty much all went down the drain. So much plot nicely developed for an ending that seriously was so weak and annoying.

Characters become dumb, logic makes a run for, camera is as shaky as possible and the ending seems to take too long. When it does finally terminate, it does so without any kind of style. I can honestly say, this one is a pass. Not recommended, nothing to see here. Sorry to say so.

Cheers!

Even the Chupacabra thinks this was silly...

[paul_haakonsen · 2/10 · 6 October 2016]

Oh joy, another 'found footage' movie. Yeah, this is exactly what the world of cinema needs, because this genre is oh-so-spectacular. You do notice the sarcasm permeating there, right? It is no secret that I am not a fan of the 'found footage' genre, not at all. I think it is one of the most stupid genres around, and there are very, very few movies in the genre that actually manages to pass off as being a worthwhile movie to watch. They just tend to fall into the same pitfall and turn out overly generic, and once you have seen one, you have essentially seen all.

The story here is about a group of film-makers venturing out into the woods in search of proof that the elusive Chupacabra does exist.

Wait, what? Isn't this exactly like every other 'found footage' movie? Yup, it sure it. Someone ventures out into the wilderness in order to document the existence of some creature, and they end up being hunted and preyed upon by that very creature.

So there was nothing, absolutely nothing new to be seen in the 2016 "Chupacabra Territory" movie.

The acting in the movie was as it has been in virtually every other 'found footage' movie; nothing to be overly impressed with. I am sure that the people here had fun making this 'found footage' movie, but the entertainment value of the movie was almost non-existent.

As for the special effects, well, let's just say that you shouldn't get your hopes up.

The movie is so predictable that you already know how it will end before you press the play button. The movie was so predictable that even a blind man would go "oh no they didn't..."

I am sure that there is an audience out there for these 'found footage' movies, but I would like to be entertained by a movie that has a professional feel to it, not by a movie that I could have filmed myself by bringing my digital video camera out to the woods.

Gigantic POS

[dcarsonhagy · 1/10 · 30 December 2017]

The makers of the wonderful (and ORIGINAL) "Blair Witch Project" should sue those involved with this big old turd. Four friends with cameras are off to find the Chupacabra, even though they know they are entering forbidden (nudge/nudge, wink/wink) territory. Right off the bat, the viewers are lied to because nobody dares to warn us this is yet ANOTHER "found footage" POS. Ain't you all beat that horse to death, yet?

Let's face it, most movies of this genre are all just about the same. There really is no rhyme or reason as to why they keep being produced except maybe to make a fast buck. The acting, writing, directing was all bad. First year film students (all wearing "Kill Me First" sandwich boards) will probably be forced to watch this in order to know what NOT to do when making a movie. These goons--and I didn't care for any of them from the beginning--set out to find their "baby." Even though they have enough paper clippings on the subject--complete with warnings of mutilated animals and missing campers--what do they manage to pack? Beer. Not ONE single weapon; not even a Swiss army knife; oh...and one roll of toilet paper. Now, when the director gets a camera shot of the beer that has been packed for the trip, I counted ONE 6-pack. Later (around the campsite) these boozers put away more beer than you'd find at a keg party. Go figure.

I hate to tell those involved here but when you have your main characters making fun of why they're going on an expedition from the get-go, in essence, you are already making fun of your movie. There is not one single character you can feel anything for. If that's not bad enough, the viewer has to endure 90 minutes before they see any kind of a "creature." What you get, as in Blair Witch, are a bunch of idiots running around, feigning possession, boozing it up, and guys urinating on each other. What fun...

Yet ANOTHER nail in the coffin for the horror genre. Those who participate in making this kind of s**t, can one day be proud of themselves for finally killing horror. Not rated, not watchable, and not worth the $20 it took to make it.

Expect cliches rather than scares

[Leofwine_draca · 2/10 · 19 December 2018]

LAIR OF THE BEAST is a particularly mundane example of the indie found footage horror movie, with a quartet of friends hunting for the legendary Chupacabra in their local wood. There's an age spent wandering around with a bunch of ultra-annoying characters, but little in the way of actual horror content. Expect cliches rather than scares.

Punching in the air when the actors are too far away, in a Gollum-infested jungle.

[fedor8 · 5 August 2020]

Chupakabras, my ess. This is just another stereotypical bald-headed-Gollums flick; boring shrieking mutant morons jumping around, cutting up dumb humans. "Written and directed", my ess. This was neither.

You can easily skip the first half-hour and miss exactly zero of the plot. This idiotic, irritating found-sewage obscurity starts off like a cheesy sopa-opera - with spoilers. As if it isn't bad enough that the outcome is a foregone conclusion in every found-sewage film, so this certainly is an overkill of sorts.

What follows directly after the lame "trailer" (because that's what the first scene looks like) is a string of supremely annoying young-buffoons-in-a-low-budget-found-footage-flick-clowning-around shenanigans: that cast of four "elder teens" (20-something morons that act like little kids) are supposed to be funny in that awful, cliched found-footage manner, but all they succeed in is giving me a reason to hand this turkey a very low rating. Already at that early stage I knew this would be a horrible stinker: the writing was on the wall. "I'll give this piece of crap one star, come hell or high water": I was determined.

Especially punch-worthy is the skinny dweeb who yowls and cracks dumb jokes every 2-3 minutes. Does this pitiful little anonymous thespian actually fancy himself a comedian? Even David Schwimmer is Bill Murray next to this guy, just to give you a perspective about the levels of crappiness approached here. Every time he shouted out loud, and it happens often because the film-makers hate us, I had to halve the volume and then punch into the air because his face wasn't within reach. Rarely has an actor's badness made me this violent, in my intentions at least. What the Chupakabra does to him isn't even 5% of what I'd have in store for the annoying little basturd.

As for the girl, she's kind of likable in a nerdy way, but totally miscast and out of her depth playing a scream queen. She'd be much more suited to a goofy teen comedy or some such nonsense.

Some people may like it, NOT me.

[song_of_rainbow · 2/10 · 24 December 2020]

Gave it a two, because I did not watch the whole thing and maybe the chupacabra looked the part. I hate, hate movies with quirky main characters. One stupid side kick is as far as I can handle. This was a quirky nightmare. By 27 minutes, I was about to go insane. Plus, how did the chupacabra get there? Took a plane?, taking into account they have never been sighted in hillbilly areas like that one. And second, they are not ancient anything. Number one theory, escaped US military experiment going back to around 1995, when first sighted. Yes, I know the 20th century is now ancient history. Actually, the hillbilly guy was the only character I liked.

Take me chupacabra!

[the_puff_1 · 3/10 · 23 June 2022]

This is just bad. I love these movies but this one was way out there. The acting is just awful. I didn't like any of the actors. Even boobs couldn't make me like them. There were too many things that just tear this one apart. It looked like they filmed it at a dog park. The gratuitous up the skirt shots. ( who wears a short skirt camping the entire time). The blood wasn't even the right colour. I will give it points for some of the effects. I hope to see none of these people in the movie again.

Do not waste worthy 100 mins of your life!

[siddheshkalangutkar · 1/10 · 16 April 2020]

Well..this movie is just a waste. Even chupacabra will die after watching this cancer!! movie is full of bad screenplay, annoying screams, mindless vulgarity. Well I won't even compare this movie with high-school project documentary.Do not waste worthy 100 mins of your life!

This is what a found footage movie should be!!

[doctor13 · 8/10 · 12 August 2019]

A group of people go into the woods looking for the legendary chupacabra and find terror. A very entertaining found footage film where the camerawork is actually decent and doesn't instill headaches, the acting is natural and there are actually developments in the story. Plus the amazing Sarah Nicklin never fails to impress!

was a decent way to waste some time

[sabrina_makela · 4/10 · 29 December 2016]

Found footage movie about folks looking for a chupacabra. They head up into the wilderness while filming their adventures. I liked the movie just fine. The focus switched between several different groups' cameras, so that was entertaining. There was some blood and gore, of course, some sexual content, as expected when sexually active groups go off into the wilderness while bringing along alcohol. What really got my goat was the explicit sex scene for the last twenty minutes of the movie. As we're seeing one of our protagonists running for his life, etc, building up some fear and suspense, we're forced to flip back to a sex scene between the leading lady and her love interest. Back to a fellow running for his life and the chupacabra chasing him. Back to a sex scene, revealing a new position. Back to running for one's life. Back to grunting and groaning sex. I don't mind a sex scene, but it was grating to switch between the two. Here their buddy is running for his life, yelling for help, etc, and these two are humping like rabbits in every position they could think of. It killed the flow of the movie for me. Other than that, the movie was a decent way to kill an hour and a half. Acting was decent for a b-movie. The effects were more along the lines of lots of darkness and things going bump or growl in the night.

another horrible first / selfie shot movie

[chuckxx · 1/10 · 16 March 2020]

About the plot enough said by other reviewers. it is another movie with horrible moving, shaking flashing shots. all following the hype pseudo documentation. Next to this sickening shaking, erratically moving cameras comes a stupid plot with stupid behaving people. it's a mystery that the average rating of this movie is 6.

Just terrible.

[ryanpascall · 3/10 · 25 April 2020]

Awful acting, mediocre effects and non-sensical character reactions (one second wanting to leave, the next excited, believing in the creature then not) make for a really really terrible movie. Don't waste your time.

Don't waste your time.

[kjohn-77891 · 2/10 · 19 January 2024]

Just finished watching this on prime without reading reviews about it and not knowing anything about the film.

It was so bad, I barely finished it, in fact I had to fast forward some of the movie because it was that bad.

The acting was bad but not horrible.

The dialogue was awful, who in their right mind had the actors who are in their twenties acting like they were sixteen or younger.

The script writer should never attempt another movie script again and the director should take lessons.

Then we had the so called sex scenes why? I am not prude in any means or form but in this movie they had women who are to old to know better, flashing their breasts at the screen and going topless for no reason at all, now I do t mind that but in this film it did t make sense.

After about twenty thirty minutes the film becomes such a blur of activity you don't have a clue what the heck is going on.

There is so much shouting and running about you get lost as to what is goi g on but then about ten minutes later you don't really care.

Don't bother with this film it could put you off found footage movies for good.

Found footage that is not recycled

[jdwier · 9/10 · 18 April 2017]

In a post-Blair Witch era, found footage films need something more to catch my eye. Chupacabra Territory caught my eye. It took some new steps while alluding to the genre's hallmarks. The film actually had me holding my breath in it's culminating moments. This is not what I had expected. The 2 minute trailer shows a lot of the aspects currently associated with these types of films; "dropped" camera shots, night vision footage, and a limited amount of first person-running shots. Having viewed the trailer I was not sure what to expect from the full film.

The characters are believable; the script was written with impressive depth, and while the Chupacabra itself is not real, the film presented the monster believably. Everyone has their own opinion but I found Chupacabra Territory to be an enjoyable addition to Found Footage. I will look for future movies from this director/creative team.