This has an odd shifting tone – almost comic in early encounters with ‘Steve the Ranger’(Muzz Khan) and stake-toting ‘animal control’ officer Vincent (Nicholas Brendon), which include self-referential horror movie jokes about campfire tales and a whopping great plot signpost involving a mausoleum which attracts folks in search of miracle cures … then shifting to overwrought soap opera in the arguments between the central couple, which fill in the second attack until the horror stuff starts.
The creatures might be a bit feeble, but the woods are lovely dark and deep and the climax takes place in front of an impressive altar where the tiny storyline at last becomes pointed. It might almost be a prequel in that it stops just as it dispenses with misdirection and becomes interesting, but in fact it just ends with a 1970s-style eye/fang-flick and long, slow credits. Writer-director Tom Paton, who made the interesting post-apocalypse Britflick Pandorica, gets good work from his leads and makes the woods creepy enough, but this eighty minute movie feels more like a padded short than a taut feature.