Please don't spend money on this.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

This crackerjack horror movie concerns about the Cryptzoologist Doctor Peña(Giancarlo Esposito)traps a vicious monster inhabiting the Caribbean area, he's called the Chupacabra, Spanish for 'goat sucker' . Then he smuggles it aboard the cruise ship . While being transported the monster is awakened and breaks out from the cargo hold . The monster is biped with humanoid shape, has reptilian skin, spines or quills on the back, muscular arms, large eyes, several sharp teeth and long extractor or tongue. The cruise ship is commanded by captain Randolph(John Rhys Davies) and aboard his daughter Jenny(Chelan Simmons), along with a Federal agent named Lance(Dylan Neal) and a Navy Seals command intent on killing the weirdo thing. When Chupacabra begins a criminal spree and running rampant around the ship , they are forced to fight for their lives. The bulk of action surrounds their attempts to chase and escape from this bizarre creature, some weirdo in a latex suit.The film packs bone-chilling action packed, thrill ride, suspense, terror and is quite entertaining. There is also a lots of gun play , several soldiers firing guns repeatedly for a long time. Contains lots of guts and blood but it seems pretty mild compared to today cinema's gore feasts. The movie displays atmospheric blending of chills and scary thrills combined with a terrific ending. Lively cast includes veterans as John Rhys Davies in an inferior role despite his previous hits(Lord of the rings) and Giancarlo Esposito who long time ago left to Spike Lee(Do the right thing,Mo'better blues, Malcolm X). Another movies about legend of Chupacabra are mostly Mexican films and is also starring one episode of X files(Chris Carter), these are the following : Adventures of beyond: Chupacabra(1997) ; Guns of Chupacabra(1997, Donald Jackson); Bloodthirst, the legend of Chupacabra(2003); Bloodthirst 2 : Revenge of Chupacabra(2005), among them.

Dr. Pena (Giancarlo Esposito), a "crypto-zoologist" (fancy term for one of those self-deluded losers who likes to study extremely rare - read: nonexistent - animals) and his crew of hunters manage to trap a Chupacabra, a big, scaly, elusive fast-moving beast. To get it to the mainland, they smuggle it on a Grecian cruise ship and some idiots open up the crate containing it despite being told specifically not to. I guess the strange growling noises coming from inside weren't a good enough deterrent either. The monster then does the monster thang; running around biting chunks out of various passengers until the ship's captain (John Rhys-Davies), a square-jawed special agent pretending to be an insurance salesman for some reason (Dylan Neal), a squeaky-voiced blonde Tai Bo instructor (Chelan Simmons), a bunch of guys with machine guns and others try to stop it. The main victims (who I think are supposed to be the comic relief but it's hard to tell) are an old rich bitch (Paula Shaw) with a yippy terrier and a snobby effete gold-digger (David Millbern). Apparently the monster can be knocked out with a single tranquilizer dart, but can live through dozens of bullet hits. The Chupacabra design is acceptable (though unoriginal) but the rest of the movie is devoid of suspense, surprise or interest. A boring Sci-Fi Channel "original" movie; they've made dozens of movies just like this with nearly interchangeable characters and plots, but with slight alterations on the creature. Enough already!

Chupacabra Terror: 2/10: It was the Navy Seal team that tipped the balance from bad cheesy movie to just bad. Up till then there was a lot of bad movie baggage but the Seals… They are wearing bicycle helmets painted black. You know the ones with air holes that make every adult who wears them look like a complete tool. Of course the bass fishing boat they took to greet the cruise ship might have been another clue (it wouldn't make it across Tampa Bay let alone an ocean)… and their tactics wouldn't pass muster on an 3rd rate XBOX game.Does director John Shepphird have photos of John Rhys-Davies in a compromising position with a Hobbit? Because I can't think of any other reason he would be in this movie. The other actors have a great excuse. They are talentless unattractive hacks that couldn't get hired for an infomercial. The plot is that two men try to smuggle the mythical Chupacabra (Love saying that name) aboard a cruise ship and it gets loose.The sets consist of horrible cruise ship fakery (complete with airshafts the size of a small apartment), the monster killings are bottom of the barrel, there is no nudity, and a lot of really bad actors refuse to finish their death scenes. Of particular annoyance is a gigolo character from a 60's Doris Day movie.The cast bleeds ketchup while the Chupacabra bleeds day green glow in the dark blood. (Why a goat eating Mexican mammal would bleed anything but red is beyond me.)Every B movie has a tipping point that makes it a fun time (Hey it's a lesbian shower scene, OMG that guy just ate is own eyeballs) or not so fun (Did they just call those forty something overweight guys wearing coveralls and bicycle helmets Navy Seals?) Chupacabra falls into the not so fun B movie side with a thud.

The characters in this flick where way more mature than the cast of "Sabertooth" (I had watched that earlier the same day on the Sci-Fi Channel); I found myself more able to believe that they were a crew and passengers in danger. John Rhys-Davies was the bomb in this and I even liked the daughter (who could come second to Fay Wray in terms of piercing screams). The villain Pena was somewhat more humane until the last few minutes he was around. The crook was slick and his last moments and the viciousness of the beast (not his looks) were the real shock of this movie. Another shock was poor Jeffrey--felt pity for the little guy; however, I saw his whiny mistress's fate a mile off. She was the only element I thoroughly disliked in the whole film along with the blood looking like chili.