Five friends meet in Panama for a vacation. While partying like your stereotypical back- packers, they hear from Carmen, a native, stories about a beautiful waterfall deep in the jungle.

Ignoring the warnings of Carmen's friend, they set off to find the waterfall.

When they reach it, the group discovers that the stories about a chupacabra (mythical creature, it's name meaning to rip off far better film) are true, and it has developed a taste for humans....

I've always thought that it was easier to review a bad film rather than a good one, because to rant, is to perform erratic poetry about the terrible aspects of a film.

Now, whilst this film is nothing more than a horrible rip off of Neil Marshall's terrific horror, it's just too boring and too full of itself to get angry about the whole thing.

What made it worse was that the makers start the film with a found footage excerpt, and then the story starts just like any other back-packer in peril film, and by the time they decide to refuse to heed to the warnings, you find yourself easily siding with the creature (or creatures as the editing is leading you to believe).

The cast are awful, they all split up several times to,have a bit of cheeky cheeky, and before you know it, we get the old 'shush.....did you hear that?' And '(insert name)......is that you?', just like every other lazy horror film that has been made since the year dot, and it's becoming increasingly more punishing having to sit through dross like this to get to something worthwhile.

On the plus side, the trees that are on screen are giving us oxygen, and the creature isn't terribly designed, but everything else is terrible. Especially when they try to be clever at the end and make the narrative national news.

Avoid.

PREY is another defunct American horror film, with the only thing going for it the location photography in the Panamanian jungle. Otherwise, it's clichéd business as usual with this weak sauce retread of THE DESCENT about a group of annoying American tourists who fall foul of some indigenous creatures lurking in a cave system.

This is the type of film that offers a little of a lot of things but never a lot of any one thing. It flirts with documentary realism and the found footage genre but never goes whole hog with it. It offers some racial tensions here and there but never explores the topic fully. There's a little gore too but this is never a bloody gore fest and gorehounds are likely to be disappointed by the lack of grue.

What the viewer is left with is an entirely predictable storyline, a bunch of annoying characters screaming and bickering, and others who are present just for eye candy alone. I think it's fair to say that PREY is nothing more than an instantly forgettable horror movie with a nice Panama location and nothing else.

A group of annoying American surfers hook up with a couple of locals who take them to an off limits region of the Darien Gap to swim in some magical waters, ignoring the poorly shot on-line video of two guys who go missing there.

About an hour into the film we see the creatures with a jerky camera. It is not that this is a strictly hand held film, it was not. It was just shot poorly to give to the effect of something scary that was not really effective. The film lacks characters and dialogue to make the wait worth while.

If you liked "Tasmanian Devils" (and not many people did) you might like this one too.

Guide: F-bomb (2 languages). Brief Implied sex. No nudity.