The main characters in this movie, the ones that we're supposed to be rooting for, are unlikeable, to say the least. Jay is the cocky, bad boy party type. Dylan is his snivelling toady sidekick. Liz and Tammie are two local girls that Jay and Dylan pick up in a bar. How any woman, however drunk or high, could find either of these guys attractive would be a mystery for the ages, but they end up going off with our dynamic duo in Jay's tricked out pick-up truck.
Our dauntless quartet takes off for an adventure, and end up at a friend of Jay's rural home. This is where we get our first hint at the creature, as there are drawings of a large, biped on the wall of the living room. Jay's friend isn't home, and so Jay and Dylan go to look for him. They leave Liz and Tammie behind at the truck, and take Jay's dog, Wolfie. They also leave Dylan's video camera with the girls, who film some half-arsed "see what you mates are missing" footage.
Jay and Dylan return after several hours, and not only did they NOT find Jay's friend, they somehow lose Wolfie. Thereafter follows more character development which renders our lead characters all the more unlikeable. Jay is an a**hole. Dylan is a coward. Liz is beyond obnoxious, and Tammie is a gibbering wreck. Liz, fed up with Jay, decides that she is going to walk out of the national park that our intrepid quartet went into. She has no water, no food, and not even a good idea where she is going, but she is bound and determined to hoof it out of there. Jay, Tammie, and Dylan continue on to try and find the missing Wolfie.
Eventually, they find Liz on the road, and Tammie convinces her to rejoin the group, which Liz does, reluctantly. They drive a bit further, and Jay suddenly thinks that he knows where Wolfie is. He stops the truck, and leaps out, taking the keys and a large hunting knife with him. The others remain with the truck, calling for Jay to come back. Night falls, and something approaches the truck, causing Dylan, Tammie, and Liz to flee in mortal terror. Tammie disappears, apparently taken by the something in the Pilliga. It would seem that when she's frightened, Liz could outrun Usain Bolt, as she easily outdistances Dylan several times. They dash this way and that, and find one another again. Along the way, they find several more victims of the creature, all of whom were in the same bar, on the same night, that Jay and Dylan picked up Liz and Tammie. The Aussie Bigfoot really must have had issues with the patrons of this particular bar.
Liz and Dylan find a woman hiding in the brush, and you guessed it, they recognize her from the bar. She tells Liz and Dylan that the creature knew that Jay would be out there, as Jay and his missing friend from the house had regularly gone hunting for this beast. The beast then shows up and grabs the girl. Liz and Dylan flee in Stark terror, and Liz once again outruns Dylan like the Roadrunner outpacing Wile E. Coyote in a Looney Tunes cartoon.
Dylan finds Wolfie chained to a tree, and promptly leaves the dog there. He hears Liz calling in the distance and goes off to find her. Now, Dylan has the only light, but can't manage to find his own backside with both hands and an anatomy chart. Liz, in the other hand, can apparently see quite well in the abject darkness of the forest, and has been dashing pell mell, this way, then that. She comes running out of the dark towards Dylan, telling him.to run back the way that he just came from, because the monster is chasing after her. Liz trips and falls into a pit, and please with Dylan to help her. Dylan then sees the glowing red eyes of the best, and promptly flees, leaving the pleading Liz behind.
Stumbling about in the dark, Dylan finds a fence line and follows it to a sheep ranch. He please for help, but the rancher drives him off by shooting at him. Dylan runs and runs through the night, and shortly after sunrise, he finds a paved road. He looks this way and that, and is then struck from behind by the monster. Dylan falls to the ground and drops his camera. You can see Dylan being dragged away, and while he is being carted off, you can hear Liz calling out his name in the background. A car drives by only a moment or two after Dylan is attacked and taken. They find his camera on the ground and pick it up.
I may have missed a thing or two, but those are the main points in the movie. I managed to bear sitting through it once, but I would not recommend it, nor would I watch it again.