A group of teenagers
decide to camp out and go hiking in the
woods of Utah and decides to camp out
there.
The leader of the pack named Peter (Jack
McClelland) tells the rest of the hikers
some safety tips of never going in the
woods alone and to always stick together.
But suddenly they realise that they are
stalked by a vicious blood thirsty killer
that stores his dead bodies in bags and
in his shack as he tries to kill all of
them as well as others residing there.
When you see the
box you probably think "Oh boy a
cheezy looking but interesting looking
film I gotta check it out" but
surprise! A boring weak plotted film.
This film was made for no good reason
which is really sad! Instead of titling
it "Don't Go in the Woods"
which was a lame title anyways, they
should've called it "Don't Watch
this Lame Film" which suits the film
itself!
It's also a total ripoff to Just
Before Dawn and easily
forgettable too.
The acting is
terrible and full of virtual unknowns as
they show no characterisation to their
roles and just read their lines.
The graphic slayings are
the main plot of this film.
A mother is brutally slayed while
painting a picture and it leads a violent
bloodshed
A guy's face is caught in a bear trap
A teen is bloodied while being slayed
A guy in a wheelchair has his head
decapitated
Bodies in bags .
A hiker is stabbed by a sharp stick
A bloodied boy is hung from a tree
A teen is bloodily stabbed by a large
knife
The killer is bloodily stabbed a bunch of
times
The directing by James
Bryan is extremely wooden and just
as bad as the cast in this film. He can
almost guarantee you to be put to sleep
if you are having sleepless nights.
Just rent this at your video store and
watch his direction.
However he does show some nice scenery in
the forest and the mountains around Utah.
Then we have a campfire tale by lead
actor Jack
McClelland and Bryan
doesn't direct that scene convincingly at
all and it looks extremely hokey.
Then there's a small role by Cecilia
Fannon who is playing the role of a
pianter who gets slayed and it sounds
like she is having an orgy than sounding
like she's being hacked to death
However, there is a good scene and camera
shot on Hank Zinman who plays a
fisherman at a creek (and director of
photography for the film) when a bear
trap is slams into his face and then Tom
Drury moves in for the kill while McClelland
is running for his life before he
gets killed which is one of the only
scene's worth watching.
We have James P. Hayden goofing
around and tying Angie Brown in
her sleeping bag and tying her to a tree
which should look well directed but its
as if these actors were forced to
performing this.
We do have a good killing scene involving
Angie Brown inside the shack of
the killer as Drury looks menacing so a
good point on Bryan's work with
that scene.
There is also a good revenge scene at the
end involving McClelland and Mary
Gail Artz
But that's all folks
H. Kingsley
Thurher's composing is bloody
annoying and terrible. I would NEVER hire
this person.
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