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The title tells you exactly what you’re going to get. Except there’s not much terror and it doesn’t really take place at Loch Ness.
The problem with movies about the Loch Ness Monster is that there’s pretty much only one plot that can be utilized: Monster emerges, munches on some locals and it’s up to some gutsy folks, usually the sheriff, who end up killing the beast. That’s about it. Even when the creature isn’t really “Nessie” but rather some other generic plesiosaur, the results are the same (Crater Lake Monster for instance). But lack of originality has never stopped the various companies vying to get their creature features on the Sci-Fi Channel, and thus we get Loch Ness Terror, which originally aired on the station as Beyond Loch Ness.
You’ve seen this plot a billion times now. As a young boy, James Murphy (Brian Krause) witnessed the Loch Ness Monster kill his father during a Scottish vacation. Fast-forward a few decades and Murphy is now a humorless cryptozoologist trying to locate and kill the beast. He arrives near Lake Superior after mysterious deaths have started to occur there, and realizes that the monster he’s tracking has somehow made it to the States through a network of underground tunnels. As Nessie picks off obnoxious locals, Murphy and the town learn that they aren’t just up against one monster; Nessie has spawned and there’s a whole bunch of little monsters running around as well.
Loch Ness Terror is completely, totally, absolutely typical. There isn’t a single thing really noteworthy about it. It just...is. The characters are only mildly tolerable, the direction is, at best, professional. The creatures do look kind of cool, but they’re also so obviously CGI that they never feel integrated into any scene they’re in.
The Sony disc is also average at best. Aside from the film, we are treated to an excruciating making-of featurette which consists mostly of the actors re-telling the entire plot again. For absolutely no reason at all, a bonus episode of the television anime show Blood+ is included. It’s about a young, amnesiac adopted girl who suddenly finds herself being hunted by a werewolf-like creature.
Loch Ness Terror isn’t good. It’s bad, but not terribly bad. It just kind of sits there waiting and hoping someone with some creativity would give it real life; sadly, that is not to be.
