Legend of the Chupacabra

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Worst movie EVER.......2004-09-23

I am a big fan of Troma and indie movies in general. I own close to 100 b-movies. I have seen countless low budget films.

I consider this to be the WORST (not funny bad - UNWATCHABLE) movie I have ever seen.

I can handle low / no production values. I handle porn-level acting. But, this story was so filled with plot canyons. To describe them as plot holes would be an injustice.

Buy this movie for someone you despise and wish to harm.

If you appreciate bad movies, you'll love this one!.......2004-09-03

This movie is hilarious! Yes, it's bad. Really bad! All the 1 stars are obviously fans of CGI. BORING. This movie is great to laugh at. If is interesting the entire way through and is great entertainment.

The low budget is obvious. Check out the cage that they have to protect them from the Chupacabra. In the alternate ending the Chupacabra picks it up with no effort (AND THERE IS NO BOTTOM ON IT!) Yeah, they must not have had a big budget but it all adds to the laughs!

A must own DVD!

"One Who Sucks Blood From Goats".......2004-06-03

This is one of the worst movies in history, and certainly one of the least watchable. It is a movie that wishes it was 'The Blair Witch Project' but is more like a bad junior high student film. It is dedicated to all the people who lost their lives making this film, which is embarrassing enough, but wait till you actually see the chupacabra (which means "One who sucks blood from goats" in Spanish, the movie somberly intones.) This is the lamest monster since the last time Ed Wood collaborated with Tor Johnson. The movie features a lot of very bad narration and a faux documentary style that only serves to annoy.

Essentially what happens is that Students from the 'Department of Cryptozoology' at the 'University of the Rio Grande Valley' led by Maria (Katsy Joiner) set out to film the chupacabra which has been sucking livestock dry and recently killed her uncle. Her theory is that the Chupacabra was created in a US government biomedical experiment in a secret lab in Puerto Rico. Alternate explanations presented are that it is from outer space (an authority tells us that this is obvious due to its hind leg structure) or that it is a demon created by Satan (though a priest is interviewed says that that isn't so, and goes on at length about how superstitious Hispanics are.)The hard hitting story line leads exactly where you might suspect: immediately before having his intestines sucked out, the Sheriff is asked "Is this where the conspiracy starts?" by Maria, and we soon discover that not only is the government mixed up in the chupacabra case, but they are also covering up the Loch Ness monster case and the conspiracy to intentionally plant crack cocaine in inner city neighborhoods (some people actually believe that one.) When the intrepid explorers find animal remains they generally have lines like "this goat looks like it's intestines have been sucked right out." Along on the expedition besides Maria and the cameramen are a deputy (in official uniform blue jeans) who takes them to any place they want to go (crime scene access is apparently no problem for the students) and most offensively the 'ex-Marine' and 'renowned firearms expert' who is about twenty yet still has Vietnam flashbacks, and can't figure out how to hold a rifle. After the Sheriff's demise the deputy confirms that the chupacabra killed Maria's uncle and said the cover up was because "the Chupacabra policy is on a need to know basis only."

Ultimately they chase a chupacabra to its lair (marked by scarecrows with goat skulls on the top) and try to seal it in with dynamite, thus rendering it vulnerable to capture. (?) The ex-Marine and a cameraman seal themselves in a cage (a la Richard Dreyfus in 'Jaws') and try to shoot the creature when it comes out at night. (Tip: never get out of the cage to get a better shot at a chupacabra. Duh.) They finally get the chupacabra dispatched (Maria has to put a knife in its mouth) and perform an autopsy "before any government agencies like the CDC or FBI take over, because we want to know the truth." The autopsy is my favorite part when I listen to them trying to say medical sounding stuff like "Look at this mandible!" Without question my favorite line was when Maria, assisting in the autopsy, says "Yeah, I noticed the angle of langerhans" while looking at the chupacabra's head. Of course she meant to say "the islets of langerhans" which are in the pancreas, so I think she needs to study a bit harder in her anatomy classes. The autopsy also features much gratuitous grossness (like blue eyeball fluid) as do many other parts of the film, but they are so poorly done as to be more laughable than offensive (this is especially true of the traumatic arm amputation scene.) The pinnacle of lunacy in the autopsy is when they discover the bar code tattooed on the chupacabra and say conspiratorially "You know what that means...."

The DVD has a few extras such as director's commentary and autopsy bloopers video, but nothing makes this a more interesting package. This is one of the most amateurish, un-watchable, awful films ever. I can't recommend this even for camp value, which I had wrongly predicted it would be full of. This is just plain bad, no matter how you look at it. The residents of Santa Maria, Texas should hang their heads in shame that the good name of their town has been defiled by such a piece of excrement as this.

THE WORST MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN.......2004-01-18

This movie looks like something a highschool kid made out of his home. Don't waste your money!! I was upset that I even spent the money to rent this!! The acting, plot, dialogue...everything is horrible about this movie!! I would have given it less stars if it was possible!!!

Good lord this movie is bad!!!.......2003-10-08

I try to find merit in any work, but this movie is terrible even by the standards of Troma. The acting is terrible and they muddle their attempts to make this look like an shoe string budget documentary. The special effects are a joke. Troma always exaggerates gore for the fans, but this movie would be shameful even if it were a splatter film made two decades ago. This movie is a waste of time and money in my opinion I'd avoid it.

Fiesta of Fear Latin Horror 2 Pak: Legend of the Chupacabra

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Fiesta of Fear Latin Horror 2 Pak: Legend of the Chupacabra
Starring: Fiesta of Fear Latin
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Angel Negro: A tragic accident leads to the disappearance of a young girl named Angel Cruz. Ten years later, the bodies of her former classmates begin showing up dead! And that's just the beginning of this creepy mystery; Legend of the Chupacabra: When the mutilations of her uncle's goats (and her uncle) by the brutal Chupacabra (Goat Sucker) is caught on tape, Maria Esperanza vows to find out despite local fears. With her crack team of students and one tough ex-marine, Maria manages to make a ghastly revealing film that makes "The Blair Witch Project" look like a failed student documentary

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THIS IS NOT A HORROR MOVIE!
don't waste your money!!!
did you hear something?...
Okay, hang on a minute...
Bad, bad, bad!

Bloodthirst: Legend of the Chupacabras

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Bloodthirst 2: Revenge of the Chupacabras

ASIN: B0000897CL
Release Date: 2003-03-18

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THIS IS NOT A HORROR MOVIE!.......2005-07-30

How could this be horror? No graphic violence, the ending wasn't so good(probably the guy who said "Let's go home" in the ending was going to be a whole new El Chupacabra, because he had blood on his head). The ending SUCKED! Or maybe he was going to be a 3rd Moca Vampire. I would call this movie a horror/mystery/thriller genre. One more question: What does this movie have to do with Cryptozoology?

don't waste your money!!!.......2004-06-29

OMG dude this movie sucked bigtime!! "Bloodthirst" was about a stupid, bloodthirsty (duh)monster thing that drains blood from goats. The "Chupacabra" looked like a child in a pink/green rubber suit. It looked like it was filmed with a normal video camera, like a home movie. There were like 2 killings you actually SAW in the whole movie. I strained my eyes to watch the entire movie somehow, and afterward I felt like bashing it to pieces with a crowbar! I just returned it to the movie store instead, and got my precious money back. But seriously, if you see this movie on the shelf in any video store, no matter how low the price is, DON'T BUY IT!!!

did you hear something?..........2004-03-07

i couldnt believe this movie as it started. it was so bad i couldnt turn it off! i loved it! there was so much tongue in cheek i think you have to be intelligent to get it. (and im not insulting those who didnt like it) it wasnt about having good special effects, good god thats what hollywood is for. anytime now i hear "did you hear something?" i crack up. and the first guy to get "sucked" was wearing sheep pajamas and boots! come on, a farmer, wearing sheep pj's..... yes, the movie was out there but if you can handle that, watch it.

Okay, hang on a minute..........2003-06-25

As horror TV host Mr. Lobo says: "They're not bad movies, just misunderstood."
BLOODTHIRST has been getting a lot of negative horror fan website reviews, but those of us who made the movie think it's because it's not being looked at in the right way. It's a horror spoof, first of all, a throwback to the old schlocky monster movies of the 50's where half the fun was laughing at the film's shortcomings! There are a couple of good scares, some laughs and its okay for the whole family. So, please, lighten up and try it again! Thanks.

Bad, bad, bad!.......2003-06-23

I'm probably not the best qualified to write a review of this film, because I haven't seen it. That is to say, I haven't seen all of it. I started to watch it, but I turned it off about half-way through because it simply got too stupid to bear. I'll try to explain at least as far as I got.

Somewhere in Arizona in the foothills fo the Rockies, a sleepy town is being attacked by a bloodthirsty killer. Goats are turning up dead, drained of blood, and the locals are attributing the killings to the creature known as the chupacabra, the goatsucker. Soon, people being turning up dead, also drained of blood (hmmm, there's a surprise). This prompts to editor of a nearby paper to send a reporter to cover the story.

Meanwhile, a prospector passing through town gets wind of a local who might have a map to an abandoned mine that is supposed to be laden with gold (who knows why no one has followed up on this before now?). As it turns out, the old man is a retired vampire hunter and the mine is not a mine, but a cave, the lair of the chupacabra. Do you see where this is heading?

Enter the old gypsy woman, who explains to our heroine (the reporter) that the chupacabra is the pet of creatures from outer space, accidentally left behind on Earth. It is alone, frightened, and hungry. Yeah, okay. Right about here was when I decided that this film had lost any entertainment value, but I pressed on.

The mayor, in a desperate bid for re-election, forms a posse consisting of the gypsy, the vampire hunter, and some others to hunt down the killer (this was his wife's idea), but the vampire hunter discovers the map to the creature's lair missing (it was sold to the prospector by his grandson to get the money to pay his family's rent). They head off anyway, trusting on Gramp's memory to lead them there, I guess. The grandson insists on going, of course. After all, it's his fault that the map is gone. I figure that's the last we'll see of them.

When the corpse of one of the people attacked by the chupacabra rises from the morgue table, complete with extra-long canines and thirsting for blood, I turned it off. I couldn't watch any more. What could have been an entertaining film has degenerated into a poor excuse for a vampire flick.

Overall, I can't recommend this film to anyone. The production values are poor, the actors seem like they're reading thier lines off of cue cards, and the special effects aren't. The creatue looks nothing like the monster shown on the cover (or for that matter, nothing like the chupacabras have been described in folklore). I can't begin to describe what a waste of celluloid this film was. It's something I might have expected and eve tolerated in the 1960s, but not in 2003.

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