Robert W.
I'm a huge horror fan...have been for years...I've watched every bad and every good horror movie I can get my hands on. Lately they have been churning out slasher, and gore flicks like water and I've seen a lot of stinkers lately. This isn't the worst stinker I've seen but it wasn't good. It was so staged and typical and added nothing unique and the big twist to the story was convoluted and stupid and I still don't understand who the true killer was. There was quite a bit of gore but it was forced and extremely gratuitous. The characters were vapid and annoying and even the characters that were meant to be annoying were just so unlikable that it was nearly unwatchable.Sophie Linfield, Sam Hazeldine, Gemma Harvey, Gordon Alexander, and Rhys Meredith are your main cast and I lump them together because they are all about the same. Alexander is the completely unlikable idiot who I would have ditched at the side of the road minutes after he got in my car he was such a jack ass through the entire film. The chemistry between them is so non-existent that it breaks down the entire film. Jason Carter plays a ridiculous role as a police officer that is forced into the story to delivery an important plot line.In watching the special features I was shocked to learn that director, creator and writer Kelly Smith took this so seriously and thought that this was such a great piece of work. He proclaims to be a horror fan but this is utter crap in the way it was put together. The script is so bad that the aforementioned Policeman played by Jason Carter shows up to say the following line..."I'm a police officer, there is a serial killer in these woods. Be careful kids." I'm paraphrasing but the script was that bad. The only thing redeemable about this film was the special effects were decently done and even though the gore was gratuitous it was well done for a low budget horror flick. Otherwise this one is only for the hardcore fans of indie horror. 5/10
gavin6942
Two couples spend a weekend in the country, only to cross paths with a brutal serial killer. As the body count rises, suspicion spirals into paranoia, climaxing in a terrifying battle for survival.Watching this film makes me lament the fact that making films today is fairly cheap and getting a distribution deal is easier than even. Any group of friends with a digital camera, a little bit of skill and some free time can make a film -- especially a horror film, which are notoriously easy to make and market. While there are exceptions ("Clerks" and "Slacker" come immediately to mind), by and large movies were better when you had to raise a significant sum...That being said, this film has some things going for it. The acting is good, the editing is good... had a big studio made it, it might have been a small hit. Maybe. But there is nothing original about it, and it mostly just looks cheap. I like bad horror films (probably too much), but this was even beneath my standards... rent pretty much anything else (except Tyler Perry).
Laurence Phex
Big spoilers here but I suggest you'll read them so you don't have to bother watching this movie.I can't believe people are being positive about this movie, there are even people here who say that the actions the characters made were believable. All characters were a joke, especially the police agent who just happened to be at an abandoned farm and didn't notice a bloody guy with two knives right behind him. Why go look for that Tristan in a dark forest while he has a cellphone? The cellphone seemed to work perfectly well in the forest. (except when the calls were important, of course). Someone who has been cut comes into your house, what do you do? Exactly, go fishing and leave the women at home. That blonde girl (didnt bother to remember her name) was so dumb, i couldn't help laughing when she was killed. And that girl who just sits there drawing some body parts on a tree? And the multiple teacher screams that follow? I couldn't stop laughing. I'll give it a 2 instead of a 1 to give the writer of the movie benefit of the doubt that he meant the film to be this bad. The maggots coming from the eyelids. The total random spike in the farm. The struggles in the house, especially when Paige and Tristan fall when fighting over the knife. The scare effects you could've seen coming from a mile away like the bloody hand on the window, the screaming gypsy hiker. I'm glad I've seen this movie so I won't ever think that it could've been good and I'm glad all the characters ended up dead.
msobell-79-474086
Horror is not a genre that I would go out of my way to watch, but I must say that the film was very watchable, and you can only be proud of what you have produced. The acting and direction were very professional and I was particularly impressed at the paucity of gruesomeness with most of the horror being left to the imagination. The music and sound effects were also superb. Well done to you and Kelly, and I wish you the best of luck in securing the distribution. I know you will promote it well, whether it is in the cinemas or DVD.