It Waits | 
| Director: Steven R. Monroe
Actors: Cerina Vincent, Dominic Zamprogna, Greg Kean, Eric Schweig, Austin Jordon
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Category: DVD
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 34127
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 88 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: DV12990
UPC: 013131299090
EAN: 0013131299090
ASIN: B000CEXF5G
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Release Date: May 23, 2006
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Product Description
It Waits is a suspenseful horrifying tale of a Native American legend come to life. A creature trapped in the bowels of hell has been awoken and unleashed on the world. It prowls the wilderness hunting a young willful ranger named Danielle. Danielle is experiencing her own personal turmoil having recently been responsible for the death of her best friend. Things go from bad to worse as Danielle realizes that she is not alone in the wilderness. There is a creature slowly stalking and hunting her. The creature claims the lives of the few people that may have been able to help Danielle and all hope seems lost. She waits as the creature comes for her and desperately struggles for her life but will her struggle be enough to ensure her survival?Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: NR UPC: 013131299090 Manufacturer No: DV12990
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 It can keep waiting, thanks. June 1, 2009
Robert P. Beveridge (Cleveland, OH)
It Waits (Steven R. Monroe, 2005)
I was just reviewing another Monroe movie (Ogre, above), then I'm paging through the headers of the movies I haven't reviewed yet, and I find another Monroe joint. So if you've read that one, you probably have a good idea of how this review is going to pan out. I might as well just come right out with it: there are three certainties in life. They are death, taxes, and the badness of Steven R. Monroe movies.
It Waits for Cerina Vincent (Fashion Victim), who here plays Danny, a forest ranger with some recent demons in her past that have been driving her to drink. She's alone in a secluded section of the woods one weekend when all the other forest rangers have been called off to an emergency in another part of the forest. Or she thinks she's alone until her boyfriend Justin (Iron Eagle IV's Dominic Zamprogna) shows up. Now, Danny has been thinking of Justin as an ex, but she hasn't gotten around to telling him that. Welcome to tensionville. Things get a lot worse when they find out they're not the only ones in the woods--a long-dormant demon/monster/thing that's been awakened by blasting is out there with them, and the only one who knows about it besides the only two to have seen it and survive is an old Indian (Skins' Eric Schweig) who remembers his tribe's old tales about the beast and how to send it back to its dormancy. Why, oh why, is it always an old Indian? (A stretch for Schweig, who was under forty at the time the movie was made.)
The old-Indian cliche should tip you off to the amount of thought that went into the script. Pretty much everything here is a cliche, dressed up with some different monster makeup and a couple of ludicrous subplots aimed at developing Cerina Vincent's character. Every time I see Vincent in a movie, I think that somewhere under there is a good actress straining to get out, but she shows up in such awful movies that she never gets the chance to really spread her wings. I can't say the same about anyone else here, as the rest of the cast is comprised of either flat-out bad actors or capable actors who simply can't do anything with the awful script they were given (Schweig is the obvious example here). The movie is trite, silly, and all-around awful, though in its defense it does have the best creature effects I've seen in a Steven R. Monroe movie. Still, that's not nearly enough to recommend it. Avoid. *
 The possible prequel to Jeepers Creepers...but don't let that dissuade you. April 30, 2009
Jason (Backwater, Alabama)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A sexy but unstable forest ranger named Danny (Cerina Vincent - the naked chick from Not Another Teen Movie) who recently lost a friend seeks refuge within a Smirnoff bottle. Along with a hilariously prophetic and verbose parrot named Hoppy (who steals every scene), and an underdeveloped love interest with a barely post-pubescent pseudo Jake Gyllenhal, she has various responsibilities, to include searching for lost hikers or the bodies of a massacred archaelogical dig. Little does Danny know - mostly because she's a morally loose, easy, drunk emotional wreck - that the college archaeologists unearthed an alien, skeleton zombie (ASZ) of some kind. In the words of Hoppy before every tense scene, "Uh oh."
With a complex understanding of electronics, engines, and a rudimentary concept of pulley-based booby traps, ASZ is a formidable foe. Factor in the strength to lift a jeep, the ability to jump 20+ feet, and claws that make Freddy's knives look like a fresh manicure, and there's a guaranteed gutting on the horizon. Oh, it gets better. My boy FASZ (Freddy Alien Skeleton Zombie) alos likes to leave mangled and decapitated body parts for survivors to discover, and voyeuristically watches their shock from behind a row of trees (think flaming bag of poo on the doorstep, but for psychopathic monsters). Playful AND murderous! Look for the corpse dinner table and the anal Indian impalement scenes; they're a hoot.
I won't ruin the ending, or spoil the surprise, but the lead up to the final battle involves a rural alarm system of tin cans on a string, some of the worst marksmanship in cinema history, and a ridiculous Native American mumbo-jumbo lecture about cross-dimensional demons or something.
Overall the production, music, sets, scenes, and gore are fairly well done. Nothing spectacular, but nothing incompetent. Cerina Vincent is beautiful throughout. The only downside of the movie is final unveiling of the monster, which looks so much like the Jeepers Creepers beast that this may as well have been the prequel. Overall, it's lacking true scare, and most of the typical horror fare, but it's still enjoyable enough for sadistic horror fans to cheer for FASZ.
It Can Wait... October 25, 2008
Franco Jesse (Pittsburgh, USA)
It Waits is a moderately entertaining flick. It's not compelling, but has its moments. Some genuine scares, a terrifically scenic wilderness setting, and a charming but flawed heroine (the mammiferous, mass of tangled curls known as Cerina Vincent) help propel the story. Danielle (Vincent) is a forest ranger spending a lonely and besotted existence in the observatory that is both her job location and her escape from the outside world. She is drenched with guilt over the loss of her BFF, who died in a vehicle accident for which Danielle feels responsible. What jerks her back to reality is the appearance of estranged boyfriend and fellow ranger Justin, who drops by for a "sleepover". Interrupting the healing process is a strange, powerful unseen "rogue animal" who begins wreaking havoc and claiming victims in the woods. As Justin and Danielle fight for survival, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary denizen of the forest. Danielle learns that a monster from Native American legend has been unleashed, and she must figure out a way to stop its rampage and escape the mountain alive.
As reviewers have noted, the story and its presentation are quite ordinary, drawing upon several previous and better films for inspiration. As with all such similar plots, this one is aided by behaviors that make viewers wonder "Why don't they just...?" or "Why didn't she..?" Unlike other reviewers, I felt that Vincent did a creditable acting job, and I didn't mind the back story about the death of the girlfriend, because it injected her character with some vulnerability. What I do take issue with is the treatment of the monster in the final climactic scenes. Up to that point, the creature has been barely glimpsed, and only then under cover of darkness. This heightened the tension, leading the viewers to wonder, like Danielle and Justin, just what the heck they were dealing with. Once the monster makes a daytime appearance, it proves to be one of the ugliest conceptions since "Alien" and "Predator". But then too much CGI takes over, and what had been a wily, elusive and destructive force begins to feel fake and less formidable. The final confrontation seems somewhat rushed and the denouement is rather lengthy, although not inappropriate. In all, the film is both predictable and different. Some viewers may come away dissatisfied with both aspects. But I think It Waits provides decent escapist fare - just not enough to appear at the top of anyone's wish list.
 Sure it was a B movie, but I liked it. September 14, 2008
LaLa (Coram, NY)
This movie surprised me. I wasn't sure about it at first. Cerina is awesome. She is why I thought this one worked. The monster was brutal and I liked how it played emotional games. I saw it twice already and would probably watch it again. Now you also have to understand that it will be a little cheesy, but that helps me to get through some of them better. I say watch it! give it a chance. I think you may be surprised.
Enjoyable B-Movie August 26, 2008
Graboidz (Westminster, Maryland)
Let's face it, if you are picking up "It Waits", you aren't looking for a well acted, plot driven film. Most likely you are hoping for a standard "creature feature", maybe some blood, maybe a nifty rubber & latex creature out to cause mayhem and maybe a little suspense thrown in. If that is what you are looking for, then "It Waits" fits the bill. Cerina Vincent is quietly becoming a fun Scream Queen to look for. She provides a nice little perfomance here, not relying on her...ummm assets...to carry her scenes. This time around Cerina Vincent plays a US Forest Ranger hunted by "something" that has been awakened by some pesky college archeologists. I'm not sure what the "something" is, the Indian professor who conveniently shows up two-thirds of the way through the flick to give us that handy info, isn't too clear, and he isn't really around long enough to give further explanation or clarify. That's okay though, I don't need too much back-story, and I'm not really looking for plausability in a flick called "It Waits" either. Just get the creature out there hunting the campers quickly and I'm happy.
The only real downside to the film was the lack of victims. I would have preferred this thing get a few more kills in before setting it's sights on Cerina and company. Just a few odds and ends campers, folks lost in the mountains, a small hillbilly community. The low body count was a drawback for me.
On the plus side, "It Waits" features mostly old school special effects. I'm sick of CGI monsters, and it was nice to see a genuine "guy in a rubber suit" creature. It's old school fun. The blood, while not very heavy, is effectively spilled when done as well.
If you are looking for genuine scares, maybe you should pass on "It Waits" for something else, but if you just want a fun Saturday late night creature feature flick, then give this one a shot.
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