Film Review – A Creature Was Stirring

Making his screenwriting debut with “A Creature Was Stirring” is Shannon Wells, and while the title suggests a holiday horror experience to come, the actual effort doesn’t head in that general direction. Wells has something else in mind for the story, which examines a mother’s fight to contain something hidden inside her daughter, doing so in the middle of a blizzard while managing the needs of two intruders. There’s a bigger idea in play for the picture, but Wells is attentive to the needs of genre cinema, ordering up monsters and mild mayhem. Director Damien LeVeck is mostly in charge of creating mood, attempting to launch a stylish endeavor on a limited budget, guiding actors through what’s meant to be a rough ride of emotions and revelations. “A Creature Was Stirring” has an interesting take on human frailty, but it’s really the stuff of short films, with LaVeck visibly struggling to stretch the story to a longer run time. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com