Outer Edge Magazine

...However, I soon realised I’d wasted part of my life watching this show.

We follow our ‘hero,’ Richard Terry, for the most part filming his own face from a handheld camera. Unfortunately, the two percent without his face filling the frame is usually accompanied by his narration, reminding us all for the hundredth time how dangerous his current situation is. Richard is as unlikable a host as he is incompetent adventurer.

Finally, the format. Each episode follows it to the minute and it goes like this: Richard announces he’s heard stories of a ‘monster’ and lists what characterises one. Cue crappy reenactments. He then heads off and finds three ‘monsters’ that have one of the listed characteristics – but each have no correlation to the original characteristic description. Between each discovery, he speaks to locals gathering more information triggering more crappy reenactments and stock footage. Finally, with relief of it coming to an end, he finds one!

We are then reminded that he is a documentary cameraman and came here to obtain ‘footage that has never been seen before’. What a champion.
If this show was a spoof, it would be brilliant and hilarious. Unfortunately it isn’t.