Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

David Weiner Doesn't anyone read anymore? The creature, setting, and story line were lifted whole cloth from F. Paul Wilson's "Repairman Jack" series. The creature is called a "rakosh", a demon from Indian mythology. Read the Wilson story (it's available on a free download from the Guttenberg Project) Then re-watch the movie. When plots and other things are lifted from other sources and no credit is given, it's very irritating, if not downright dishonest. Imagine if someone made a film about a scientist who tried to animate a dead monster that he stitched together from stolen body parts, and tried to pass it off as an original plot. If the screenwriter had Wilson's permission, then why not list it in the credits? Shame on you SyFy.

merklekranz Though somewhat rushed to conclusion, what precedes it is good. Good flying monster, good story, good character development, and good location photography. Lou Diamond Phillips is totally acceptable as the small town sheriff, and the evil carny owner is well played by Alan C. Peterson. There are some unexpected twists, and some pretty good jump scares. "Carny" is superior to two other "Jersey Devil" movies, "The 13th Child Legend of the Jersey Devil" (2003), which is terrible, and the somewhat interesting "The Last Broadcast" (2006). Thus, this is flat out the best "Jersey Devil" movie out there. ................... - MERK

Michael O'Keefe Lou Diamond Phillips in yet another movie that will briefly entertain and then be forgotten. CARNY is little horror flick filmed in Canada for the Sci Fi Channel. Alan C. Peterson plays a greedy and murderous carnival owner that has just acquired a hideous monster for his traveling freak show. The carnival comes to set up shop in a small Nebraska town. Hidden amongst the roustabouts and sideshow oddities like the two-faced man is a steel cage where shackled is the newest attraction...half animal/half devil creature...Jersey Devil. Influential citizen and Pentecostal minister Owen(Viasta Vrana)warns Atlas, the local Sheriff(Phillips), not to let the carnival open for business. Nevertheless, the freak show opens to a good size crowd and after being taunted, the blood thirsty Jersey Devil breaks loose and begins to feast on the township. Sheriff Atlas now has a hell bent monster to catch and a mess to clean up. Actually the Jersey Devil is visually cool. Also in the cast: Domenic Cuzzocrea, Simone Elise Girard and Joe Cobden.

Theodine This is one of the most mean spirited movies I have ever seen. Most of the characters are unsympathetic. The head of the carnival is someone who'll murder anyone who stands between him and making a profit. His helper is stupid and just as willing to kill. The town's pastor rants on and on about the carnival even before he has a good reason to. He apparently thinks that just because some people were born differently, i.e. are circus "freaks", that means they're evil and deserve to die. The townspeople at the end are both stupid and unsympathetic as they promptly turn their efforts to killing people at the carnival rather than making sure the creature is dead. We never really get to know the circus "freaks" as they are apparently just there for shock value. The few sympathetic characters are treated horribly. A young man is completely traumatized and then later killed in front of his mother in a completely unnecessary scene. A deputy is brutally murdered. This movie was a very unpleasant experience that I wish I could wipe entirely from my mind. I don't know what the scriptwriters were thinking. Certainly not about being entertaining or having any value to their film what so ever.