Tasmanian Devils (2013)

A group of cliff divers take a helicopter to a remote Tasmanian mesa to jump 3000 feet before the park rangers find out. They are 100 miles away from anything in either direction. One jumper opens his chute a tad late while the jumpers are discovered by rangers who show up in a matter of minutes from 80 miles away over bad road. The blood from the oops jumper causes the revival of ancient Tasmanian Devils who look like CG reptiles, recreating a Jurassic Park feel as our group is being hunted.Danica Mckeller provides the eye candy and worst facial close-up as a flame throwing ranger working on her masters.Tasmanian Devil special effects were nothing to write home about. The exaggerated mouth and fangs were more comical than horrifying.Made for TV- kid safe except for that blood and eating human stuff.

Why make an Australian film in Canada with American actors, I would have acted for free, at least you would have one dinky di Australian actor

I honestly don't know why I keep taking chances on movies made for the SyFy network. Well, sometimes I am in the mood for low budget horror, but I've seen plenty of low budget horror movies that were a lot more engaging than "Tasmanian Devils". The fact this was a Canadian production just makes things worse, not limited to the fact that they try to pass off the British Columbian wilderness as the wilderness found in Tasmania. Even though I've never been to Tasmania, I know the backdrop of the movie was just plain WRONG. I might have been able to excuse that had the rest of the movie been engaging, but it isn't. The story and characters you have seen in plenty of other movies before, and you'll be able to predict much of what happens before it does. The idea of (mutant) Tasmanian devils being the monster did have promise, but they are rendered by very unsatisfying CGI. In short, the only audience that there could be for this movie would be for people who have never seen another movie in their life, so they wouldn't be able to compare it to other (and better) movies.

As a resident of Tasmania, this is the biggest load of crap I've seen in a long time. Parks personnel may carry guns in Canada, but not here. Nor do they dress like a Dr. Hook wannabe. There are female rangers and most of them can find a shirt that fits. Don't get me started on the background of deciduous trees and what appear to be fake ferns, certainly not Man ferns or Dicksonia Antarctica appear commonly in the bush. If you're going to make a movie like this at least some of it should be believable. I don't know if anyone associated with this film has ever been to Tassie, but I doubt it. If they have, they should have paid more attention. I can't watch anymore as I fear for the safety of my TV.