Review – 13th Child: Jersey Devil

Alack for the poor Jersey Devil. It’s among the coolest of monsters, but it always seems to end up with the short end of the cinematic stick. The visuals mostly consist of low-budget interviews intercut with the same three drawings over and over. And oh those interviews. Some of it is legitimate folklore, but most are on par with those juvenile ghost stories we all used to make up with our friends when we were eight years old. You know, the kind that go something like “Once there were some boy scouts who were on a hike but then it started raining so they ran into a cemetery and hid in a mausoleum only then Dracula showed up and he was going to drink their blood but then Mrs. Dracula showed up and she was going to drink their blood but then three Frankensteins showed up and they started fighting the Draculas but then ..." and so on. Honestly, this was so bad that a parody would end up looking exactly like the original. See if desperate