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Don't waste your time with this movie
I wish I could give this movie a Zero star rating, not a thing was tolerable, script, acting, accuracy in filming, both camera use and geographically. On top of all of this, the movie has nothing to do with the Jersey Devil legend that is well known in New Jersey. If any one has heard anything about the legend being linked to a Native-American tribe, please let me know. I was born and raised in South Jersey. I grew up on Jersey Devil lore, and that has never been mentioned in any of the stories or books.

If you want to see something about the Jersey Devil, I suggest, but not highly, you watch season 1 of the X-Files, one of first episodes covered the Jersey Devil or the movie The Last Broadcast. Neither of these cover the full story of the Jersey Devil, but do a better job then this movie.

One question I would love to ask the filmmakers of the 13th child, is whatever happened to the story at the heart of the Jersey Devil? The story of the Leed child? This is a more interesting story.

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The SNORE-INATOR
Despite the fact that it has some really good actors this film is just so BAD.
The JERSEY DEVIL monster only looks disturbing in literally the last two minutes of the film when it rises out of a pool of blood. Throughout the rest of the film it resembles a man in a bad monster suit (ripped off from the GIGER ALIEN design yet again).
This film PLODS on and the minor characters are all more entertaining and interesting than the main ones. Specifically the female investigator. She is like an unnattrative NAOMI WATTS blonde (with a really hideous personality) crossed with DANA SCULLY. So basically you have someone who you can feel no empathy with and literally can't stand.
The evil Mr. Shroud who somehow is linked to the JERSEY DEVIL through some kind of ancestral silliness walks around through the film grumbling and mumblings lines like, "Have you seen my friend Bruno?" (Bruno being his pet name for his fake looking Jersey Devil pal).
I have seen worse films but not by much.
The idea was cool and the image of the JERSEY DEVIL rising from the pool of blood is quite well done. But sitting throught the entire movie to see the ONLY good part is NOT something I could recommend to anyone else.

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I watched it, what else can I say.
Was it awful, yes. Was it confusing, yes. Was the acting bad, not really, the girl inspector was good, Robert Guilium was good, the Rangers were good enough. The story pretty much sucked though. The creature would have been better if never seen. I would have given the movie 3-stars if the creature where only seen in shadows. I think the problem was that the story might have been decent (in a book or comic), but was not designed to translate very well into a movie.