In 1988, Darnell is found in a small boat in a stream in the woods, claiming he and his parents were attacked by a lizard man. No creature is ever found and rumor has it Darnell’s father killed his mother and ran off to avoid the consequences.
Cut to current day and a group of friends come to town because Sidney is doing research on the lizard man. They head to the Lizard Man museum where the proprietor has his face like painted like a lizard. If you saw him anywhere but the museum, you wouldn’t know he’s supposed to be an lizard. The group also gets in a brief verbal spar with some locals who hang out outside the museum and harass women. Why?
The guy at the museum gives them a map so they can find the location of the lizard man incident, which is where they’ll set up camp. They’ve brought beer and a boombox on their trek into the woods, which is always conducive to research. One of the guys wanders off on his own since he believes if he finds the lizard man, it’ll be easy money and make him a millionaire.
Soon we’ve got the lizard man, the local thugs, Darnell, the ranger, and the group of friends on a collision course with wackiness. Actually it’s more a course of tedium as you’ll wonder if anything is going to happen and there’s no satisfaction in the end. People make ridiculous decisions and the twists are lackluster.
While this takes place in South Carolina, the accents are either over the top southern hick or have a lilt of the actors own accent, which is distracting. Louisa Warren is a UK filmmaker so I’m assuming they shot this in the UK based on the accent issues.
The movie ends with interviews with the proprietor of a museum with lizard man info. So it’s a real legend. Plus theres an interview with a woman who went to high school with the guy who actually saw the lizard mani in 1988. What is hilarious is the filmmaker didn’t edit this woman’s train of thought monologue. We get info like in high school she worked at the KFC, which she then expands upon because it was called Kentucky Fried Chicken when she worked there. Or everyone in high school believed the guy because why would he make up a lizard man since he was handsome and popular. This overlooks the fact that sometimes people just want attention and a little story can become so big they don’t see any way out of the lie and have to perpetuate it. Who knows if it’s true, but people lie for all sorts of reasons.
Ridiculous dialogue
Missing people go missing all the time.
Ding ding bingo.
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| A view of Darnell’s car from inside the lizard man’s mouth |
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| The van right out of the 70s. |
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| The sign to the museum is taped up using electrical tape, and the arrow is also electrical tape. |
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| On the right is a man on a bicycle. I thought this must be someone following them and was part of the plot but apparently it was just someone riding down the road. |
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| The group sees a cabin in the woods and gathers on and near the porch which is weird since the lights are on and they aren’t staying there. |
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| What sort of forest has lanterns hanging off trees that anyone can take to go into the forest at night |
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| Uh okay, not what I was expecting for a lizard creature |
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| The decidedly un-lizard like lizard make up. |
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