One of the most stupid "thrillers" I've seen lately

Rating: 1/10 (24 October 2005)

OK....nice premise to this and clever advertising. I finally saw this movie on one of the movie channels and am glad I never wasted any money either seeing it in the theater or renting it.
I certainly understand that there is some suspension of belief involved in watching movies, but this is worse than even some of the Jason movies where people just act dumb and beyond what is normal behavior.
First and foremost, the village people seem to be all a bunch of non-thinking brainwashed weaklings. No dignity in facing death or scary things...just shrivel up and hide. C'mon...how many of you are there? Can't you gang up on just ONE alien and kick the snot out of it? Where are your guns? Even older societies and Amish people had guns. Where are your rebellious teens? We all know teens think they're invincible, so why don't a bunch of them gang up with wooden planks and go after this monster thing? Stooopid.
Next....a BLIND girl walking around in the forest finding her way out AND back into this place? Oh...right...her other senses must have made up for the MILES of non-directional sounds of squirrels, deer and other creepy-crawlies out there in the woods. Why don't deer and bears set off those alarms or get the monsters angry? After finding out what the monsters are (SPOILER) you would think that those who walked out into the woods just once would have done that while all of them were sleeping and not dressed up as one. How did the people dressed up know when someone walked past "the line"? Motion sensitive cameras? Infrared heat-seeking alarms? No...where would they have been hidden? Then...when the girl does find out it's all a sham and even goes so far as touching the costume to know it's all a crock...why then is she afraid when she confronts the monster in her walk out of the woods? Secondly...WHY (please tell me) would the crazy idiot dressed as the monster spread red flower petals (or feathers or whatever they were) around wherever he was to try to scare a blind person with a visual effect? Clearly that was an effect to make US think a monster was coming...it would and should have no effect on the blind person. Why did he have to dress up to scare her? She couldn't see the costume anyway. Stooopid.
How also does she know it's a monster, not a deer, possum or even a monkey? SHE CAN'T...and this is a bit beyond my ability to suspend disbelief. Why doesn't the "monster" just walk right up to her and slash her or whatever it was he wanted to do with her? She couldn't have seen him coming? Maybe she could have heard him...but then there's no way she could have outrun him. Stoopid again! Instead running and falling into a pit that she really had no idea how deep it was...but somehow she knew right when to duck out of the way. I think they stretch the Helen Keller abilities of this blind person into more comic book superhero for what this movie was all about.
Lastly, wasn't it just SO convenient that she walked out of the woods and just happened to have the boy scout of boy scouts find her and then not ask too many questions. And then happen to have the right medicine and get by the incompetent and supposedly bad guy park ranger dude who sorta knows what's going on. By the way, just how much would you have to pay or bribe...and to whom...to arrange all air traffic to avoid the area.
Sorry if this spoiled it for you...it was ruined for me as soon as the opening music came up. What a waste of time. By far this is one of the more worthless efforts of this director ever.