A Major Disappointment

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

The good parts, er, actually John Rhys-Davis playing the captain is pretty much all. Rhys-Davis is playing the only character whose fate remains in the "might or might not survive" category. We're lucky then that the best actor present plays the character.Unfortunately, everything else goes downhill surprisingly quickly. Aside from the captain and bland leads, the characters are a pompous old woman, some professional thief, and a cryptozoologist unwilling to provide help stopping the chupacabra; occasionally even helping it escape and thus kill more victims.Naturally these people were too unlikable for their deaths to be upsetting and there's no sense rooting for this chupacabra to get them since it's inevitable.The monster being released by the crew members didn't make too much sense. Actually it didn't make any.Several gun-wielding guys appear throughout the film; first crew members and later navy SEALS. They lack established personality meaning they serve no purpose but to add to the body count.

This crackerjack horror movie concerns about the Cryptzoologist Doctor Peña(Giancarlo Esposito)traps a vicious monster inhabiting the Caribbean area, he's called the Chupacabra, Spanish for 'goat sucker' . Then he smuggles it aboard the cruise ship . While being transported the monster is awakened and breaks out from the cargo hold . The monster is biped with humanoid shape, has reptilian skin, spines or quills on the back, muscular arms, large eyes, several sharp teeth and long extractor or tongue. The cruise ship is commanded by captain Randolph(John Rhys Davies) and aboard his daughter Jenny(Chelan Simmons), along with a Federal agent named Lance(Dylan Neal) and a Navy Seals command intent on killing the weirdo thing. When Chupacabra begins a criminal spree and running rampant around the ship , they are forced to fight for their lives. The bulk of action surrounds their attempts to chase and escape from this bizarre creature, some weirdo in a latex suit.The film packs bone-chilling action packed, thrill ride, suspense, terror and is quite entertaining. There is also a lots of gun play , several soldiers firing guns repeatedly for a long time. Contains lots of guts and blood but it seems pretty mild compared to today cinema's gore feasts. The movie displays atmospheric blending of chills and scary thrills combined with a terrific ending. Lively cast includes veterans as John Rhys Davies in an inferior role despite his previous hits(Lord of the rings) and Giancarlo Esposito who long time ago left to Spike Lee(Do the right thing,Mo'better blues, Malcolm X). Another movies about legend of Chupacabra are mostly Mexican films and is also starring one episode of X files(Chris Carter), these are the following : Adventures of beyond: Chupacabra(1997) ; Guns of Chupacabra(1997, Donald Jackson); Bloodthirst, the legend of Chupacabra(2003); Bloodthirst 2 : Revenge of Chupacabra(2005), among them.

I don't like "Slasher Movies", but I LOVE Monster Movies. So I guess I was pre-disposed to enjoy this movie. But I really did get a kick out of it.And Chupacabra Terror is a great low-budget trapped-with-a-monster-in-an-enclosed space movie. There have been movies about being trapped with monsters on an island, (The Killer Shrews) or on a spaceship (Alien), or in an isolated snow-bound facility of some sort (The Thing, The Shining, Alien Vs. Predator). But this is the first movie I've seen where the victims are trapped on a cruise ship (But I must note I've never seen GHOST SHIP or DEATH SHIP, which are now on my list of must-sees).And I have to say, in spite of the cranky writing, overacting, and silly rubber monster, this movie was a highly enjoyable spectacle and well worth popping some popcorn for. Just make sure you turn off your brain. You'll cheer when the guy that looks like Kato Kaylin gets it.As an end note, I'm also looking forward to SNAKES ON A PLANE, featuring Samuel L. Jackson trapped on an airplane with killer snakes! Yeah Baby! Rumor is that Sam is FORCING the studio to NOT change the title to anything less silly than SNAKES ON A PLANE, and for that selfless act, I can only state that my respect for Mr. Jackson has increased even more. Keep a lookout for that. In the meantime, you may enjoy CHUPACABRA TERROR.

The characters in this flick where way more mature than the cast of "Sabertooth" (I had watched that earlier the same day on the Sci-Fi Channel); I found myself more able to believe that they were a crew and passengers in danger. John Rhys-Davies was the bomb in this and I even liked the daughter (who could come second to Fay Wray in terms of piercing screams). The villain Pena was somewhat more humane until the last few minutes he was around. The crook was slick and his last moments and the viciousness of the beast (not his looks) were the real shock of this movie. Another shock was poor Jeffrey--felt pity for the little guy; however, I saw his whiny mistress's fate a mile off. She was the only element I thoroughly disliked in the whole film along with the blood looking like chili.