Clawed (Alternate Title: Sludge) is a Horror Film by Steve Taylor.
In the remote region of Bear Claw Mountain lies a creature the locals call The Shadow Of Death. It's described as a being black as night that kills anyone who trespasses on its territory. Thing is, the place is also called Bear Claw Mountain, so it's easy to assume that all the deaths attributed to this beast are really bear attacks.
Well, Dark Annie (Colleen Kelly) has managed to score an interview with Sheriff Reynolds (Steve Grabowsky), a survivor of the Bear Claw Massacre of ten years ago. From him, she hopes to get all the gory details of that dreadful event.
The film was released on September the 19th, 2017.
Clawed contains exampled of:
- Car Fu: One of the female students hits the Shadow Of Death with a car.
- Cruel Twist Ending: Sheriff Reynolds feels happy he's not the only survivor of the Bear Claw Massacre. Then Dark Annie reveals all the other ones were killed later on, and one of them was apparently raped and gave birth to the Shadow Of Death's Half-Human Hybrid child, who is Dark Annie herself, who slashes up Sheriff Raynolds with her claw.
- Curse Cut Short: From Sheriff Reynolds.Sheriff Raynolds: Oh, fu-(slashed by the Shadow Of Death)
- Don't Go in the Woods: Especially the Bear Claw Mountain woods. There be the Shadow Of Death.
- Eye Scream: In one of the Shadow Of Death's attacks, the camera shows his victim's eye popped out of the socket.
- Facial Horror: Prepare to see a lot of mutated and/or mutilated faces over the course of the movie.
- Framing Device: Sheriff Reynolds' interview with Dark Annie.
- Handgun: One is used to try and harm the Shadow Of Death. Keyword being try.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: One member of a hunting party gets a branch shoved into his mouth, and coming out of the back of his head.
- Let's Split Up, Gang!: The professor tells his teams to split into groups to perform a different task so they can complete their geological survey within their time limit.
- Male Gaze: One scene lingers on a young woman's buttocks as she's leaning into a tent.
- Off with His Head!: The Shadow Of Death is strong enough to lop a person's head off with one swipe.
- Ominous Obsidian Ooze: Puddles of this stuff can be found all over Bear Claw Mountain. They are not to be touched.
- One-Word Title: Clawed, naturally.
- Shout-Out: The geology professor overseeing the field trip to the mountain relays instructions to his students not to leave food lying around so they don't attract Yogi and Boo-Boo.
