“The Rise Of The Beast” (*1/2 out of four) was a lackluster horror thriller about a group of young animal activists (Peter Jeffries, Sian Altman, Erina Mashate, and others) who break into a government facility as means to expose them but soon find themselves face-to-face with terror when an unhinged beast breaks free and slaughters them all one by one. Drably done and by-the-numbers thriller without much spark or scares; even the creature looks pretty bored when he’s doing his killing and dismembering but at least he’s more lively and engaging than the human characters.