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The tyranist's thoughts
Remember that Jersey Devil episode of The X-Files from way back in the first season. Did you like it? I did. Not a lot, but it was only the fifth episode and the series was still building up steam. They were still figuring out what they could and couldn't do with the series. Well, that episode, titled "The Jersey Devil," oddly enough, is Casablanca compared to this piece of shit.
I'd share the plot with you, but I really didn't get it. Suffice it to say it involves backwoods Jersey, some people, and a Jersey Devil. Or two. Maybe. I don't know. I swear I watched it.
The story was incoherent, jumping around the timeline without explaining it at all. Then there would be these long pauses in the confusing action for old Cliff Robertson to ramble on at length in the way of old people. Other than his meandering mostly incoherent dialogue, the rest of the cast didn't say much.
Robert Guillaume was in this and I love Robert Guillaume. Unfortunately, his role was as significant as Bela Lugosi's in Plan 9 from Outer Space. It just didn't make much sense.
The scariest part of the movie was watching the end credits and seeing the title roll by as 13th Child: Legend of the Jersey Devil volume 1. Volume 1? If this is just the first in a planned series, then the world is a more frightening place than I ever imagined.

Rish's Reviews
I think there was a good film buried in here somewhere. But it was deeply buried.
It's not that the story was a bad one, just extremely poorly executed. Starring, produced, and co-written by Cliff Robertson, his odd character rambled on with interminable, incomprehensible pontifications not seen in film outside of the Matrix sequels. The film would have been significantly better had most of these speeches been cut down. Or translated to English.
The main character, an investigator named Kathryn, was so utterly unlikable that I thought it was all planned that way, so that when she is horribly murdered, we will at least smile. Nope, I think it was just the actress.
Robert Guillaume is more than an actor, he is an icon, a hero. Indeed, he is a great, great man; perhaps greater than any living man since Franklin Roosevelt. His work on "Benson" will be remembered long after every existing copy of the Bible crumbles to dust. Okay, I'm being sarcastic, but his performance is just about the only redeeming quality to this film.
The monster itself, when we finally see it, is less than impressive. Described as a cross between several animals, it usually looks like an uncoordinated man with a papiermache mask on. Its jaws are, unsuccessfully, much like that of the alien in Alien. I suppose it would be hard to create a unique and effective cross-breed monster with a budget this small, but they didn't have to make its weaknesses quite this obvious, did they?
Well, at least they didn't go CGI.
As tyranist mentioned, one of the worst moments of this film came when the credits rolled and we discovered the actual title to be "13th Child: Legend of the Jersey Devil: Volume 1." Dear god.
I'd Recommend It To: The insane, mostly.

Total Skulls: 31

Sequel
Sequel setup
Rips off earlier film
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie
Future celebrity appears
Former celebrity appears		Robert Guillaume
Bad title
Bad premise
Bad acting
Bad dialogue
Bad execution
MTV Editing
OTS
Girl unnecessarily gets naked
Wanton sex
Death associated with sex
Unfulfilled promise of nudity
Characters forget about threat
Secluded location
Power is cut
Phone lines are cut
Someone investigates a strange noise
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door
Camera is the killer
Victims cower in front of a window/door
Victim locks self in with killer
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls
Toilet stall scene
Shower/bath scene
Car stalls or won't start
Cat jumps out
Fake scare
Laughable scare
Stupid discovery of corpse
Dream sequence
Hallucination/Vision
No one believes only witness
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth
Warning goes unheeded
Music detracts from scene
Death in first five minutes
x years before/later
Flashback sequence
Dark and stormy night
Killer doesn't stay dead
Killer wears a mask
Killer is in closet
Killer is in car with victim
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes
Unscary villain/monster
Beheading
Blood fountain
Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc.
Poor death effect
Excessive gore
No one dies at all
Virgin survives
Geek/Nerd survives
Little kid lamely survives
Dog/Pet miraculously survives
Unresolved subplots
"It was all a dream" ending
Unbelievably happy ending
Unbelievably crappy ending
What the hell?