Review – It Waits

This movie helps me prove a point I’ve asserted several times in other reviews: a little decent writing goes a long way. The acting, directing and special effects here aren’t exactly top drawer. The monster looks like a bargain basement Pumpkinhead. The producers obviously had at least some budget to work with, but this isn’t a slick, Hollywood production by any stretch of the imagination. But with Richard Christian Matheson co-writing and co-producing, at least they got enough of a story to make it worth the telling. For the most part this is a run-of-the-mill monster in the woods tale, but it has some elements (such as the excuse for the creature’s deliberate cruelty) that help keep it interesting. Though this isn’t the best horror movie I’ve ever seen, it was a darn sight better than several other movies I rented in the same batch, including at least a couple with much higher budgets and much worse scripts. Mildly amusing