GL84
Heading out to a cabin in the woods, a bridal party preparing to celebrate the occasion with a group of friends find themselves stalked and hunted down one-by-one by a strange killer out to interrupt their festivities and must find a way to escape the woods alive.On the whole, this one wasn't too good on a slasher. Among finer points involved here is the rather well-done stalking scenes that give this one its genre aversion. From the initial attack on the loner out in the woods, this one sets up some solid scenes here with the ambush in the bedroom or the sequence in the woods where a tracking unit searching for the killer in the darkness, there are some rather enjoyable scenes here while getting set-up for the finale. The second half is where this picks up the fine attacks as the body count grows and the killer arrives to dole out some fun chases around the cabin from the ax-wielding killer, generating an incredibly fun and brutal brawl with the killer along the way. Coupled with some nudity and the atmospheric rainstorm during the film, these are what hold this one up over its flaws. Among the main flaws featured here is the films' rather obvious and clear low-budget detail that runs rampant, from the small cast and confined, one-location setting which really signals this one as being really cheap and low-budget. That it's really about the small group taking place at this one location rings the most about the shoestring affair, but the rather bland main storyline being featured here dominates this one to the point of forgetting the slashing as the different antics about the groups' extramarital activities which really aren't that interesting. That also leads into the other big flaw found here is that the actual slashing is quite underwhelming. Very few of the stalking scenes here do much other than break up the monotony of their lives and it really doesn't help that this has some rather blandly-executed scenes. The action in the beginning is negated by the sheer incomprehension of the sequence taking place in the darkness, a couple of the deaths manage to be off-screen and when they are shown it's quite hum-drum affairs that don't feature much beyond that interruption of the energy. That also applies to the rather lame and ridiculous motivation for the killing spree as there's some incredibly lame reasoning here to try to get this plausible and it still makes for a cliched and nearly impossible scenario. These here are what hold this one back.Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language, Nudity, Graphic Violence, several sex scenes and drug use.
kmb20716
this movie is a stupid waste of time. i'm a huge fan of horror as well as cheesy horror so bad it's good, but this is just horrible. bad acting so bad it's irritating. i think that's what bothered me the most. i'm in the minority among the reviews, but with its current rating ... i'm not alone in thinking it's so hideous it's not even worth watching.
InfinateANGELzPORTALz
I think that the film is truly a good movie,as Id said thats IMO.I admittedly rated 10/10 because of this,though its limited&hard to rate films on IMDbs'(along with even Amazons',too,as I have been trying to include in my reviews...)1-10/10 Star Rating system,when I feel it would be nice if I could rated it roughly 7.5/10 Stars.But,when you think about the new releases of movies over these recent years,much like this one for example,they ironically seem to be of similar quality?Yet at the same time,are also Not the worst movies made & released as well.Something we all can relate to.So also IMHO,its almost like they're like the new "Good and Enjoyable" movies in the various Film Genres,like from films in the last couple decades that maybe had been in theaters w/"Big-Hit Blockbusters"like:The Bone Collector,Murder By Numbers,Red Planet,The Lake House,Sphere,etc..yet Not bein the"Big-Hit Blockbusters" like: Twilight,Arrival,Star Wars,Interstellar,Avatar&so forth.But aren't the "B-/B-MINUS" flicks like:Starship Troopers,Tremors,"After-School Specials",Species,etc are per-say...All watched,well-known typa similar films from different genres,some that were sarcastically laughable&cant believe were made or money had been spent to make.But the films similar to this film when it comes to people rating and expectations were voiced as not great,a waste.I just think our expectations w//the resources avail.,are set high,but don't consider if these are BOTH: between like the known "Good and Enjoyable" films and the "Big-Hit Blockbusters".Plus along with that the different genre films,they maybe have a good summary,movie trailer,and overall decent good movie "story-line",just not possibly enough movie budgets to allow room for doin it justice,or was even as itd made its way from movie producers&companies,wasn't done by or w/the right overall circumstances.Bottom line is that it was definitely Not the worst I've seen,&do believe that some reason the films are in a sense the "new" expectation for "Good and Enjoyable" films,some are better done,along with way worse...Just sayin'!So,I do recommend giving future films,like this as well,a chance.Everyones Perceptions,AND Opinions are different!!
