Where the Scary Things Are tried to bring back that eighties kids horror adventure spirit with movies like Stand By Me, Goonies, if you want Stranger Things also coming to mind as you watch first third of the movie. The story evolves around group of highschool kids that call themselves The Dokkers whose main preocupation is making photos and videos of other kids and teachers and then blackmailing them for something.

Problems start when their teacher gives them an assignment to create their own urban legend project. They find a creature called Crockamole in the pond of the abandoned amusement park where The Dokkers gather. But, tensions and old fights rise and tragedies are about to happen.

Well, I get that the author of this movie, director/writer B. Harrison Smith tried to deal with thematics of teenage angst, insecurities, relationships and failures packed into creature feature. The only thing that looks good in this movie is exactly and only the creature which is a kind of combination between spider, ant and two legged Swamp Thing. Everything else really sucks. Acting is bad, characters are obnoxious and have absolutely no chemistry with one another. The origin of creature and hows and whys are not explained, ending is sooo bad and boring like most of the movie is. Like the author who wrote screenplays for Camp Dread, The Fields, and Deathhouse could not decide whether to make an adventure horror movie with nostalgic low budget trips to eighties and legendary movies, psyhological horror about angst or plain bad creature feature. This was a bad one indeed.

1/10