Sadly the budget shows to a great pain as "Creature" is very short on the creature affair and very heavy on the scantily clad women bouncing around and giggling. At least with Adam Green's low budget "Hatchet" we had an unforgiving merciless monster who tore people limb from limb, but the monster here seems to bide his time for reasons never quite explained. He knocks off a few of the local yokels here and there but there's never enough blood or carnage to write home about. When the creature finally decides he's had enough watching and strikes down upon the hapless tourists, the action is slim to nil. The performances for what they are, are competent enough for a film of this ilk. Folks like Serinda Swan and Lauren Schneider walk around near the buff engaging in girl on girl while the creature watches from a hefty distance, and they're manageable enough characters, but there can never be enough of explanation why the film becomes "Caligula" once the tourists settle down in their camp sight. For a long time Andrews focuses on the sexuality of the characters and does little else with them until he finally brings out the monster in all its rubbery glory. I wish "Creature" was as fun as it looks in the promos, but really it's just a mediocre glorified straight to television affair with nothing remarkable about it. Unless you have to absolutely see it for the extended supporting role by Sid Haig, there's nothing "Creature" brings to the table that you can't find by shuffling through Netflix and finding a random creature feature from Lionsgate or The Asylum.

Tedious and overly complicated, "Creature" is the dumb monster movie that takes itself much too seriously and never has fun with the source material. Folks looking for dumb monster romps would do better to look elsewhere.