After reading the reviews here, curiosity got the better of me and I had to see it for myself. There is no doubt it' s supposed to be about the Jersey Devil, as it's mentioned about 50 times in the opening. I'll call everyone by their movie name, because why does it even matter?

The first thing I noticed is when Alex shows Sarah his phone, the text message was supposed to be from a year prior, the last message he got from Kelsey, yet the messages both say sent and read, today 5:20 PM, so I knew what I was in for.

A bunch of stuff happens that doesn't matter and they go back to the site to find Kelsey a year later. The guide that shows up in seconds somehow and they go looking. I still haven't figured out how Alex got so tangled up in a tree stump from falling down a hill that he had to be cut out of it. Fast forward through some more stuff that doesn't matter and they end up at what seems to be the only house in the vicinity. Meanwhile, their boss (I guess) has no idea where they are, goes to the middle of nowhere to look for them in the middle of the night in the woods with a flashlight and meets her demise. Well, ok then. The guy who owns the house has Kelsey held hostage in the basement in a room that looks like Fort Knox. Sarah somehow magically opens the door. The guy who owns the house is pretending to be the Jersey Devil. Or is he? I don't know, they don't know either apparently. Kelsey does a bad job of fake tripping and falling down from here on out.

So many people were getting knocked out, punched out, butted with the stock of a rifle or hit across the head that I'm surprised the whole cast didn't have concussions. Everyone did an alright job as far as acting goes, except for the two lead girls. Sarah was an absolute plank of wood...with a bad haircut to boot.

A vehicle crash in the Pine Barrens led to a Kerlsey's (Madison Ekstrand) disappearace and locals blamed it on the infamous Jersey Devil. Then, on the anniversary of the crash, Sarah Franklin (Sasha Anne), the cousin of the missing girl, and Alex (Evan Adams), Kelsey's boyfriend, head off to the crash site to discover what really happened.

Hey - there's Joe Estevez as the old man warning those teenagers not to ask too many questions. You know, if the last time I was in a town I watched someone get their arm torn off and a monster drag my friend into the woods, I probably wouldn't go back.

Dale Fabrigar also directed the genre-hopping D-Railed, which was a pretty good time. Written by executive producer Suzanne DeLaurentiis, Tricia Aurand (Middleton Christmas) and Sandy Lo, this film feels like it's searching for what it wants to be. It has a great creature, an interesting set-up and then struggles to put it all together. It's not the worst film you'll find on streaming, but it may be a bit frustrating because it gets so very close to being a good movie.

Right, well where to start?

First of all, I have to admit that I had never even heard a single word about this 2022 horror movie from writers Tricia Aurand, Suzanne DeLaurentiis and Sandy Lo, so I wasn't sure what to expect here. But with it being a horror movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I opted to sit down and watch what director Dale Fabrigar had to offer.

Well, the storyline is pretty weak. Sure, there were aspects to it that actually had potential. But the overall image was just a less than mediocre one. So this wasn't a particularly great horror movie experience. In fact, there wasn't really anything scary in the movie, especially not for someone well accustomed to the horror genre.

The dialogue in the movie was pretty awkward and it was somewhat toe-curling to listen to. But to make matters worse, then the actors and actresses were just fumbling around in the dark here delivering less than lukewarm performances and delivering the dialogue as if they were struggling to take it serious. The movie suffered terribly from these facts.

For a horror movie then "Reed's Point" was a swing and a miss. And this is definitely not a movie that I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on. Some of us suffered through this movie so you don't have to. Trust me on that one.

My rating of "Reed's Point" lands on a very generous three out of ten stars.