Cryptids · 2000 · 109 min

Chupa

Directed by Tom Hoover

One of America's largest national parks stretches across 33,000 acres of dense woodland, hidden ravines, and waterways that have swallowed secrets for centuries. When livestock mutilations begin appearing along its borders — drained of blood, unmarked by any known predator — a special task force is dispatched with a single objective: find and capture the creature locals have whispered about for generations. The Chupacabra. The team enters the park armed, trained, and confident. They have thermal equipment, tracking experience, and the full backing of people who would prefer this situation resolved quietly. What they don't have is any real understanding of what they're hunting — or how long it has been watching them. Chupa unfolds in the forests of one of Ohio's most visited national parks, transforming familiar hiking trails and scenic overlooks into a hunting ground where the predator-prey dynamic shifts without warning. The task force was sent to capture something. Something else had different plans. Equal parts creature feature and survival thriller, Chupa delivers the raw tension of found footage filmmaking against a backdrop that makes the horror feel immediate — because these are real woods, real trails, and a legend with more documented sightings than most people are willing to admit. They came to catch it. It had other ideas.