**_Professionally-made low budget horror in the desert_** Five youths get stuck in the desert after a hermit disables their van. The hermit is the least of their problems, however, as an unknown creature of the night lurks in the area. I've been watching a lot of barely-a-budget independent horror flicks lately, many with the identical plot as this one (for example, "Delirium" & "Feeding Grounds"), and "The Craving" (2008) is noticeably professional by comparison. Despite a couple cases of dubious photography, the filmmaking is adept enough to pass for a theatrical release, at least a dri...