Black Water
IMDB says, While on vacation on Northern Australia, Gracie, her husband Adam and her younger sister Lee decide to take the Blackwater Barry tour in the swamp for fishing. Their guide Jim uses a small motor boat and takes the tourist along the river to a remote spot. When they stop, they are attacked by a huge crocodile that capsizes their boat and immediately kills Jim. The three survivors climb a tree and when they realize that help would never come to rescue them, they decide to try to find a way out of their sheltered location. However, in the muddy water, their boat is flipped and the crocodile stalks the trio under the water.
This is an independent Australian movie and the vacation was in the characters' own backyard, so it doesn't have quite the same "exotic vacation trope" as going to a Third World country on vacation might, but it was still awesome. So much joy and fun at the beginning. So much downhill to come. One awesome thing is that they actually used a real saltwater croc for many of the scenes. No special effects. I also really dig movies in which the characters are stuck in some place from which it would be so easy to escape but the thing of horror prevents that. (One of Stephen King's scariest short stories (to me) followed this theme with a group of friends swimming out to a raft-dock in the middle of a lake and then encountering some freakish oil-spill-looking creature who ate anyone who dared get in the water, thus trapping them on this raft-dock thing). In this case, the croc is determined and patient.
Vacation gone wrong factor:* * * * (hey, not everyone died, so it's four stars only this time)
Did I care about the characters factor: * * * * (I liked these people. Was not rooting for the crocodile. There was some whining, of course, but dude, I would be too if I was stuck in some mangroves with a giant croc stalking me)
Verdict: * * * * * (this was a great surprise. I expected it to suck and it totally didn't)
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