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13Th Child: Legend Of The Jersey Devil: Review

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Like THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES, this true life-inspired horror film tries to put an inhuman face on an urban legend. Since the 1700's, the Pine Barrens section of New Jersey has been the scene of gruesome murders and unexplained disappearances. During the Revolutionary War, the British betrayed and hanged a Native American Hero, Mahtongwa (Rudy Jones). Cursing the White Man’s descendants, Mahtongwa, the 13th child of a shaman, returned from death as an immortal shape-shifter, who guards his ancestral woods. Because her father, a police detective, vanished in the Pine Barrens years earlier, D.A. Murphy (Lesley-Anne Down) sends skeptical FBI agent Kathryn (Michelle Maryk) to investigate a spate of new reports. Kathryn is unpersuaded by the eyewitness testimony of mental patient Mr. Riley (Robert Guillaume), the former partner of Murphy’s father. Still skeptical, Kathryn scours the woods with NYPD police officer Mitch (Gano Grills) and forest ranger Ron (Christopher Atkins). After they find the chewed-up remains of an escaped convict, Kathryn realizes she doesn’t have the all the forensic answers. To shore up her knowledge of the Jersey Devil, Kathryn queries local historian and all-round eccentric Mr. Shroud (Cliff Robertson). By the time Kathryn repays her host’s hospitality by snooping, both Mitch and Ron have become the Jersey Devil’s latest snacks. Can Kathryn avoid a similar fate, especially after the shape-shifting Devil makes his way into Riley’s guarded room at the institution? A bona fide forest fiend might be good for the New Jersey state tourist industry, but this chiller isn't the spooky ad campaign the Barrens need: It suffers from confusing script construction and poor pacing, both fatal to a fright flick. leave a comment --Robert Pardi
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