Rijndri
Load of rubbish!!
SanEat
A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
Ella-May O'Brien
Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Erik Knepfler
This move does the unimaginable: It magically teleports a man, a man who'd normally be named "guy you'd see dressed in all cameo doing karate moves in a forest with a bunch of his friends in a no budget movie" guy, it teleports him into a mediocre horror movie that is mostly made of filler shots. Every time our hero talks to anyone, it reminds of Tommy Wiseau's The Room with its awkwardness. Every action the guy performs to advance the story seems to plod along at a nearly infinitely slow pace because of the sheer mundanity of the tasks. Even the task of asking someone if they want a drink is enough to put you instantly to sleep. Strangely, when he's not in the shots, which is actually a pretty reasonable amount of time considering, the movie actually chugs along reasonably well. The other actors have some tinge of personality and range, and the camera-work is good, so it just skips along merrily. Until the moment our hero arrives to do the equivalent of throwing the emergency brakes on a train. The evil guys are convincing, though some of the mystery is lost when half of our hero's moves resemble what a 12 year old would learn in karate class, with its silly forms and such. It's as if the movie was made in spite of the guy, but more likely, a magical thing occurred, it's a fish out of water story, forest kung fu dork guy forced to act in real movie. The music in this movie is very odd too, during non-dangerous scenes there's sometime this repeating diddy of doom going on threatening something which never comes. The hero kicking ass sometimes gets these weird scores which sound like they're from a very patriotic anime. Just when you think you can't handle the hero anymore, the movie actually grabs you back in and keeps you wondering what's coming. Are the bad guys cannibals? Are they mutants? What are they going to do with the girl? While we know how it's all going to get resolved, quite stupidly obviously, we kind of want to know WHAT'S getting resolved. At one point after a fight some guy yells "that was like something out of a video game!" which makes sense because our hero looks like he learned everything he knows from playing too much FarCry on his Playstation 4. The kills are good, so I give it a 3.
monkey_ross
It appears to be the be first script that Paul Logan has written, which probably explains the excessive martial art fighting scenes involving himself and opportunities to take off his top! ha ha The horde was obviously made on a pretty small budget and considering this, I don't want to slam it too much. The movie as a whole is kind of weird mash up of Rambo, Universal Soldier and perhaps a pinch of Deliverance meets House of 1000 Corpses? As an intended horror, I don't think its particularly scary in any way but its got some good gore factor in there for you in that's your thing. The teacher to student talk about being a virgin was an obvious set up for a B movie unneeded gang rape which was pretty cringe worthy and I guess in place for the lack of frights to this movie. The story itself is pretty shaky and doesn't really develop past being in the woods and in danger. The direction of the stereotypical characters in scenes is not the best nor is the explanation for these weird people being in the woods doing what their doing in the first place. However, the whole point of this film is obviously to get to the kicking arse part of the movie where the Rambo type character of John Crenshaw gets to descend on the town, does his arse kicking and attempt to rescue his group. I would say that on a budget the SFX are actually pretty good surprisingly. It was worth a watch in short but it wont need a second viewing.
FlashCallahan
.......And if that sounds like your cup of tea, it will come as no surprise that even though this film is entertaining, it has none of the scares of Wrong Turn, and barely any of the action of Commando.John Crenshaw accompanies his girlfriend and her students on a weekend photography project deep into the woods. What should be an educational and fun-filled weekend turns into the opposite as the group are besieged by a horde of hideously disfigured, mutated humans with an insatiable taste for blood. As things go from bad to worse, Crenshaw becomes their only hope if they are going to get out alive........If you are a fan of horror movies, particularly that of the 'Gorenography' sub-genre, you would instantly know that when it features Bill Moseley in the opening act as one of the nicest people in the whole film, you know that's not the last you will see of him. And that's the fundamental element that is wrong with the film, it's not original enough to be anything other than passable horror fluff. Everything has been done before, from the opening scene featuring two victims, very Wrong Turn, to the stereotypical characterisation.We have the incredibly ripped lead, who looks beyond uncomfortable in his own body, who you just know will lose his cool at least twice in the film. Then we have the students.We have your over lusted couple who sit in the back of the car kissing for the entire journey, you just know that they will go first and go quickly. Then you have the token rich boy who is abhorrent and rude to everyone.....and you just know that his death scene will be the the most drawn out one of the film, and it will be the goriest part of the film.The other two students are a little boring and have common sense, so obviously they may be safe come the end, and the teacher is the most cookie cutter of all the characters.By the way, if you think that these are spoilers, you have never seen a stalk n' slash horror film before, because it follows the same formula that everyone of these films has done in the history of cinema, because film makers don't like change.The family of killers are again your atypical selection of freaks and burly men with whom you may have seen in another film. And talking of Commando, Vernon Wells makes a special guest appearance as a face eating bad guy who has a wonderful scene with the spoilt rich boy.But then for some reason, one of the family appears to be a tree, so any element of reality is just thrown out of the proverbial window.Costas Mandylor pops up at the beginning and the third act as the big boss, because he was one of the main bad guys in Saw, and the makers must have thought 'I bet if we have him in a small role, there will be fans of Saw who will think that everything he's in will be horror gold'.It's not a terrible film by any means, but you'll have that terrible sense of déjà Vu whilst getting through it.One for gore hounds, and for people who like all of the plot explained in the final ten minutes.Oh, and the great Don 'The Dragon' Wilson pops up in what must be the weirdest cameo that I have ever seen in my life.In fact, it's worth watching just for his cameo.
craig2685
Every now and again we see or hear about a movie that was way too hyped. When we see it we get let down it did not live up to the hype. With the horde THE HYPE IS REAL! I was shown this movie a few weeks ago knowing nothing about it and it blew me away. Paul Logan plays John Crenshaw as well as writing and producing the movie. This is his world y'all and we are witnessing the magic. A photography trip turned bad when evil townsmen attack however they did not count on Paul Logan's character John Crenshaw being a formal Navy Seal! And he makes every action hero look like Barney. If you love Rambo and The hills have eyes imagine they met and had a baby! You get THE HORDE! Do yourself a favor and check this one.
