Seeing dollar signs instead of hearing warning bells when a rash of Chupacabra sightings bring attention to a patch of forest, a hiking company capitalizes by setting up a “GoatSucker” hiking tour. Problems arise when a very real threat begins to target the tourists and guides and the team has to come to terms that a monster may be more than a legend. A scientist awkwardly delivers the history of El Chupacabra and judging by the digitally added film scratches and cuts to red-filtered slow motion when our scientist says “goat sucker” the filmmakers had watched House of 1000 Corpses too many times. Anyways, we meet our small ragtag group of dopes and the questionable professionals behind the tour. Family friends and local thespians bring the characters to life. There’s also a scummy hiking company head, his stuttering assistant, a woman out for revenge, her concerned father and a local who seems plenty concerned about all the people journeying into the area. A horny middle-aged adventurous skeptic is the best character and the beast is a cheap-ass costume creation, so it has that going for it. A handful of truly unlikable characters, a lethargic pace, a refusal to show the rubbery monster and a lack of backyard charm that usually gets me through this type of outing sinks this one in a stagnant pond of boredom and irritation. The unseen monster proves to be just one of the threats the dwindling group is facing and things get a little more interesting and mean-spirited as we draw to the close but it still ain’t all that worth it.
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