Rake
2015 · 15m · Estados Unidos
Directed by Tony Delgadillo
Seven friends travel to the desert for a camping trip after graduating from high school. There, a vicious creature begins to stalk and terrorize the group.
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The scouts
It's a slasher skeleton dressed in desert air—competent enough to be invisible, which is exactly the problem when the whole pitch is 'creature in the dark.' The film wants to scare you but refuses to commit to anything weird enough to actually get under your skin.
Delgadillo demonstrates solid control of tension and frames the landscape with genuine compositional care, though the film sits comfortably within established creature-feature grammar without interrogating or elevating the form in any lasting way.
The sound design of the creature's movement—that specific choice to keep it mostly *felt* rather than seen, letting the ambient desert acoustics do the unsettling work—is what keeps this from being another forgettable cabin-in-woods exercise.