X Moor (2014)

A £25,000 reward offered by a local newspaper brings documentary makers Matt and his girlfriend Georgia to the remote North Devon moor in a bid to capture the fabled Beast purported to be a wild cat, like a panther or a puma on film.

Some of you may remember the famed "Beast Of Bodmin" from the 70s - around this time livestock were indeed found ripped to shreds and a large cat-like creature spotted. Although it was most probably an exotic pet that got loose or was simply let out to the wild.

X Moor is based on modern day sightings of this and a couple of American crypto-hunters set out to try and find it and capture it on film.

Sadly though **spoiler alert** this isn't a monster movie as it's soon revealed that "the beast" is simply a psychotic killer that like to stash bodies in the woods. Along with his creepy daughter what follows is the couple's escape from the killer while finding that not every corpse has had it's last breath.

I was a bit let down to find that the film took this path as, being from the area and the time I had quite an interest in the Bodmin Beast and wasn't really into the fact that we had to follow this storyline instead.

Not a bad put together flick, we've got Lance Hunter from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D and that bloke that plays "Mr Sanny-Man" from Phoneshop in the cast doing an OK job. For a slasher it's slow and kind of lacks any suspense or indeed logic. A movie about the actual beast would have been better.

3/10 Masks